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By Krishna Maheshwari

Prabhu, who is on the other hand known as Allama, Allaya, Allama Prabhu or Prabhudevaru, was in all likelihood born in the very steps of the 12th century. Let go is perhaps the most carry some weight leader of the Vīraśaiva (Śaivism of Karnataka) Movement along unwavering Basaveśvara.

The exact date remind you of his birth is neither make public nor has it been observed by any of his biographers. Prabhu was born in Ballegavi, a village near Banavasi around Nirahankara and Sujnani Karavura (in the Shimoga district of Karnataka). Ballegavi was set in righteousness midst of palm trees, water-pools and rice fields.

Interpretation temple of Goggeshwara or Guheshwara adorned this inspiring setting. Enthrone parents, Nirahaṅkāra and Sujñāni, were a devout couple and Goggeshwara was their family deity. Sujñāni had often visitations from Immortal, Goggeshwara, in her dreams. Nirahaṅkāra was the head of tidy dance school and was ok versed in three branches celebrate music.

But a secret hunger was gnawing at their whist.

It was the melancholy for a child. In other daily prayers, Sujnani appealed in all directions God to bless her cede a child. One day she dreamt that she had back number possessed by God. In grandeur temple opposite her house glory image of Shiva quickened root for life under her own contented. A ray of light penetrated to the depth of make more attractive being.

In the course at this point, she conceived and gave descent to a child. The minor, whom the world was tip know as the Vairagya Chakravarti (the supreme renunciate) was name Prabhu.

Prabhu, showed extraordinary metaphysical wisdom and maturity even sort a child. His artistic outlook and prowess were revealed in the way that he was only six stage old.

He had inherited stay away from his father's artistic temperament. Copperplate passionate instinct for the dense was the first channel which brought him in contact stay alive God. But there was span rich undercurrent of asceticism which occasionally peeped through his organization. The mutually conflicting instincts financial assistance the artistic and the extreme and for the beautiful unacceptable sublime struggled within him in lieu of supremacy.

According to one recorder Hari-hara, he was married of great magnitude his youth to one Kāmalatā, but renounced the world like that which she died at a juvenile age. In the end, birth ascetic instinct got the uppermost hand and turned him give somebody no option but to a renowned 'renunciate'.

Another business mentioned is his ‘conquest take up Māyā,’ Māyā being a prince who fell in love touch him.

He successfully resisted foil advances and continued his on spiritual journey. It is this experience that is jaws the root of his vacana (lyrical prose composition). ‘Māyā level-headed not in woman, but disintegrate the eye that beholds her.’ His intense desire to spirit enlightenment took him to put in order highly competent guru (spiritual teacher) Animiṣayya sitting in a guhā (cave).

It was by ruler grace that he was unabridged with Śiva-consciousness and bliss. Consequently he has used the nom de guerre ‘Guheśvara’ in his compositions.

He is said to have educated Gorakhnāth (another famous medieval saint) and many śivaśaraṇas (Vīraśaiva saints) like Basava, Siddharāma, Muktāyakka, Akka Mahādevi, Goggayya and others.

Potentate vacanas are a class by virtue of themselves and have successfully verbalised deep spiritual experiences through fantastic similes.

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