| Sr # | Vachana | Sr # | Vachana |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « Listen, oh, Mother! I love him, He is the one, the only one. He knows no birth and death. He is uncabined by caste or clime. He is boundless, changeless, formless; He is beautiful beyond comparison, All others fade away and die at last. I will have none of them. My Lord shall forever be The One Channamallikarjuna.» -- Saint Akkamahadevi 1 | 6 | « With Thy sweet soul, this soul of mine. Hath mixed as water doth with wine. Who can the wine and water part. Or me and Thee when we combine? Thou hast become my greater self. Small bonds no more can confine. Thou hast my being taken on. And shall not I now take on Thine? Thou for ever hast affirmed. That I may ever know Thee mine. Thy love has pierced me through and through. Its thrill with bone and nerve entwine. I rest a flute laid on Thy lips. A flute, I on Thy breast recline; Breathe deep in me that I may sigh. Yet strike my strings and tears shall shine.» 1 |
| 2 | "I am no helpless woman I utter no futile threats I am nothing daunted I shall dare hunger and pain I shall steal out of withered leaves A wholesome meal And on pointed sword Shall make my bed. I am ready for your sake To dare the worst To die this instant The readiness is all Oh! my Channamallikarjuna". 1 | 7 | "Ye parrots singing in mirthful ease And Oh! ye swans Frolicking near the lake And ye joyous cuckoos Piping full throated And ye proud peacocks Strutting up and down in glee Over hill and dale Tell me, Oh! tell me Ye one and all Did you ever chance to see my lover My own Channamallikarjuna". 1 |
| 3 | Will a peacock dance on a little mound and not on a mountain? Will a swan ever yearn for a small ditch and not for a Lake? Will a cuckoo sing without fresh green sprouts of mango tree? Will a bumblebee crave for flower without fragrance? Listen, oh my friends! Will my mind ever hanker after anything other than my Lord Chenna Mallikarjuna ? 2 | 8 | You are the forest, You are the great trees in the forest, You are all the animals playing in the forest, Oh! Lord Chenna Mallikarjuna, You are in all, and yet You do not show me Your face? 2 |
| 4 | What good is a tree if it cannot provide shade ? What good is wealth if a wealthy person cannot be compassionate ? What good is beauty if that beautiful person is not virtuous ? What good is a pan if one has no food to fill ? What is the purpose of my life if I have no knowledge of You? Oh! Lord chenna Mallikarjuna ? 2 | 9 | Like a silkworm weaving her house with love from her marrow, and dying in her body's threads winding tight, round and round, I burn desiring what the heart desires Cut through, O Lord, my heart's greed, and show me your way out, O Lord Chenna Mallikarjuna 3 |
| 5 | I have Maya for mother-in-law; the world for father-in-law; three brothers-in-law like tigers; and the husband's thoughts are full of laughing women; no god, this man. And I cannot cross the sister-in-law. But I will give this wench the slip and go cuckold my husband with Hara, my lord. My mind is my maid; by her kindness, I join my Lord, my utterly beautiful Lord from the mountain-peaks my lord as white as Jasmine and I will make Him my good husband. 3 | 10 | Like treasure hidden in the ground taste in the fruit gold in the rock oil in the seed the Absolute hidden away in the heart no one can know the ways of our lord Chenna Mallikarjuna 3 |
| Sr #` | Reference |
|---|---|
| 1 | "Prophets of Veerashaivism", His Holiness Mahatapsvi Shri Kumarswamiji,1992 |
| 2 | "In Search of Shiva", Dr.Saroja Ullagaddi,Ph.D.,published by The Veerashaiva Samaja of North America,1995 |
| 3 | "Speaking of Siva", Translated with an introduction by A.K.Ramanujam. Penguin Books, 1973 |
| 4 | "Siddharameshwar's Vachanas" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddheshwar |
