Vachana 1325 – When All Three Become One

The vachana contains no material image. Its movement is built through a succession of triads and opposites whose separateness is gradually removed.
Yogānga, Bhogānga, and Jñānānga
The opening triad names three modes centred upon Anga:
Yogānga;
Bhogānga;
Jñānānga.
Basavanna says that these are forgotten. This does not mean loss of awareness or rejection of yoga, experience, and knowledge. Their distinction as separately held conditions no longer governs the realized state.
Yoga is not retained as one identity, enjoyment as another, and knowledge as a third. Their divided standing has ended.
Beyond Bhaktiyoga and Vairāgyayoga
Basavanna next says that he stands above Bhaktiyoga and Vairāgyayoga.
Bhakti and Vairāgya are not dismissed. Devotion and freedom from attachment have performed their transforming work. What is surpassed is the need to hold them as separate disciplines or spiritual attainments.
The movement is therefore fulfilment, not rejection.
The Sharanas Who Walk, Speak, and Reveal
The Sharanas walk, speak, and make the truth visible through lived conduct.
What they reveal is the threefold relation of Guru, Linga, and Jangama. These do not lose their sacred meaning; their separation ends. Instruction, Divine presence, and living sacred manifestation are known within one movement.
The Sharanas must not be confused with Kudalasangama Deva. They reveal through their conduct the undivided relation whose ground is the Lord.
Pleasure, Sorrow, Anxiety, and Contentment
The vachana then removes the alternating conditions of experience:
pleasure and sorrow;
anxiety and contentment.
Basavanna does not say that embodied events cease to occur. Their oppositions no longer determine the inner state or divide awareness into attraction and rejection.
True bliss is not produced by retaining pleasure and excluding sorrow. It stands beyond dependence upon either.
Arising, Abiding, and Dissolution
The threefold movement of arising, remaining, and passing away is said to be burned.
This does not require an expanded cosmological interpretation. The Kannada names the complete cycle through which formed conditions appear, continue, and end.
When this triad no longer governs awareness, the realized state is not measured by beginning, duration, or disappearance.
Seer, Seeing, and Seen
The vachana explicitly makes one the threefold instrument of:
the seer;
the act of seeing;
what is seen.
Ordinary perception depends upon their distinction. One stands as the observer, another as the act, and another as the object observed.
In the state described here, this division no longer remains. Seeing does not belong to an independent observer standing before a separate reality.
Pindānda and Brahmānda
Pindānda is the individual embodied field; Brahmānda is the greater cosmic field.
Basavanna knows them as one. This does not enlarge the physical body into a literal universe. It removes the division by which the individual is treated as existing independently from the greater sacred reality.
The small and the vast are no longer held as two unrelated orders.
True Bliss Beyond Before and After
Basavanna stands in Nijānanda, true bliss, without knowing “before” and “after.”
This does not indicate unconsciousness or loss of discernment. Before and after are measures of sequence. Their absence shows that the realized condition is not divided by what preceded it or what may follow it.
Bowing to Linga-Aikya
Even when all divisions have become one, Basavanna bows repeatedly to Linga-Aikya.
The bowing is important. The vachana does not culminate in self-glorification or a declaration that the individual has become an independent deity. Fulfilled non-separation remains reverentially turned toward Linga.
Through this bowing, bondage is severed.
Becoming Batta Bayalu
Batta Bayalu is the Vast Open Expanse.
It is not a physical sky, bodily disappearance, death, or vacant nothingness. It names the condition in which restricting distinctions, oppositions, and self-bondage no longer enclose awareness.
Basavanna does not merely observe the open expanse. He says that he became it before Kudalasangama Deva.