Summary
In this vachana, Basavanna speaks of the total offering that comes into ripeness at the proper moment.
When it ripens, Kudalasangama Deva gives without calculation. Before it is even shown outwardly, it has already become Arpita — offered.
Basavanna then says that if he tries to count and examine this, the mind cannot do it. The movement is beyond mental reckoning.
The final image is Bayalu. Bayalu is the all-pervading expanse — the whole of the known and unknown. Like an open mouth, it consumes or feeds itself. Kudalasangama Deva is shown as this immeasurable Bayalu.
The teaching is clear: the true offering cannot be reduced to number, display, or mental calculation. When it ripens in Kudalasangama Deva, it is already offered, already received, and already moving within the all-pervading Bayalu.
Imagery & Symbolic Relevance
The first image is ripening. The offering does not become complete by force. It ripens when its moment comes. This shows that true offering depends on readiness, not outward hurry.
The second image is giving without count. Kudalasangama Deva does not give by weighing, numbering, or limiting. The gift moves beyond ordinary accounting.
The third image is Arpita before display. Basavanna says that before it is shown, it has already become offered. This means the inward state of offering precedes outward presentation.
The fourth image is the mind trying to count. Basavanna does not say the mind counts wrongly; he says it cannot count this at all. The measure is beyond the mind’s capacity.
The final image is Bayalu with its mouth open. Bayalu should not be treated as empty space alone. Here it is the all-pervading whole of the known and unknown. It is so vast that what appears as giving and receiving is contained within it. Like an open mouth feeding itself, the all-pervading Bayalu receives into itself.
Thus Kudalasangama Deva is not merely a giver standing apart from the gift. The Lord is the vast Bayalu in which ripening, giving, offering, receiving, and consuming take place.
Lingayoga
In Lingayoga, this vachana teaches that true offering cannot be measured by the mind.
The seeker may count objects, actions, and visible acts of giving. But the ripened offering belongs to a deeper field. It becomes Arpita before outward display.
For Prasadi Sthala, the point is receiving without possessive calculation. What comes from Kudalasangama Deva is not to be reduced to “how much” or “what value.” It is to be received as part of the all-pervading Bayalu.
Editorial Commentary
“Arpita” should be retained as “that which has already been offered.” The phrase “before it is shown” is important because it places the truth of offering before outward display.
“Counting” should be kept central. Basavanna’s point is not that the count is large, but that the mind cannot count it.
“Bayalu” should be explained according to the clarified meaning: the all-pervading whole of the known and unknown. The image of Bayalu with an open mouth means that the all-pervading expanse itself consumes or feeds itself. This gives the vachana its measureless force.
Related Vachana
Supporting Vachana
Maheshwara Sthala Vachana 115 — Divine Ledger
Maheshwara Vachana 115 supports this vachana by teaching that ordinary gain and measure do not reveal the true account before Kudalasangama Deva. The Divine Merchant responds only where the measure is true.
In Vachana 1073, Basavanna says that the mind cannot count the ripened offering. In Maheshwara Vachana 115, the true measure is not outward gain but the inner truth of the act. Both vachanas correct ordinary calculation and place the real measure before Kudalasangama Deva.
Advancing Vachana
Pranalingi Sthala Vachana 928 — The Measureless State
Pranalingi Vachana 928 advances this teaching by showing that subtle and measureless states cannot be trusted to the seeker’s own calculation alone. They require living discernment.
In Vachana 1073, the mind cannot count what ripens, is given, and is already offered within Bayalu. In Vachana 928, this advances into Pranalingi as the need to discern the measureless through the living touchstone of realization, not through self-measure.
