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Angasonkina Lingatande

Full Name: Angasonkina Lingatande
Pen Name (Vachana Signature): Bhoga Bankeshwara Linga

Fire within the tree,
can it burn by itself?
Brightness in the stone,
can that light light itself?
Like that the devotion of the crooked
the disinterestedness of the paltry.
Unless churned
truth and untruth cannot be discerned.
Unless true and untrue are examined with direct evidence
determination cannot be had.
Even if it is guru
even if it is linga
even if it is jangama
if one accepts without examination
his devotion and disintrestedness
are like water in the pot with hole;
the puppet torn from the string;
sight dislocated from the eye.
Can water nourish up-rooted plant?
Thus
in whatever action nourishment with emotion of pure soul is needed.
The pleasure of sharana is in union with Bhogabankeshwaralinga.
[Vachana No.1375] [1]

Angasonkina Lingatande’s eleven vachanas have been found. Bhoga Bankeshwara linga is his signature. His vachanas philosophical and they tell us about the nature of good and bad qualities and the necessity of unity between the form and the fomiless.

References

[1] "VACHANA" English Version Translation by: O.L. Nagabhushana Swamy, ISBN: 978-93-81457-12-2, 2012, Pub: Basava Samithi, Basava Bhavana Benguluru 560001.
[2] Shivasharaneyaru, by: Shri Somashekhar Munavalli and Shri Siddhayya Puranik, 1994, Pub: Shree Basaveshwara Peetha, Karnataka University Dharwad-580003.
[3] Heaven of Equality, Transalted by: Dr. C. R.Yaravintelimath and Dr. M. M. Kalburgi, 2003, Pub: Shree Basaveshwara Peetha, Karnataka University Dharwad-580003.

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