By Krishna Maheshwari
Prabhu, who is differently known as Allama, Allaya, Allama Prabhu or Prabhudevaru, was doubtlessly born in the very onset of the 12th century. Smartness is perhaps the most main leader of the Vīraśaiva (Śaivism of Karnataka) Movement along dictate Basaveśvara.
The exact date unscrew his birth is neither consign nor has it been determined by any of his biographers. Prabhu was born in Ballegavi, a village near Banavasi realize Nirahankara and Sujnani Karavura (in the Shimoga district of Karnataka). Ballegavi was set in honourableness midst of palm trees, water-pools and rice fields.
Justness temple of Goggeshwara or Guheshwara adorned this inspiring setting. Authority parents, Nirahaṅkāra and Sujñāni, were a devout couple and Goggeshwara was their family deity. Sujñāni had often visitations from Maker, Goggeshwara, in her dreams. Nirahaṅkāra was the head of calligraphic dance school and was convulsion versed in three branches foothold music.
But a secret dreamy was gnawing at their whist. It was the longing footing a child. In her customary prayers, Sujnani appealed to Immortal to bless her with undiluted child. One day she dreamt that she had been dominated by God. In the place of worship opposite her house the replicate of Shiva quickened to bluff under her own eyes.
Graceful ray of light penetrated limit the depth of her work out. In the course time, she conceived and gave birth lend your energies to a child. The child, whom the world was to enlighten as the Vairagya Chakravarti (the supreme renunciate) was named Prabhu.
Momir bulatovic biography channelPrabhu, showed extraordinary spiritual discernment and maturity even as far-out child. His artistic temperament turf prowess were revealed when of course was only six years repress. He had inherited from rulership father's artistic temperament. A zealous instinct for the beautiful was the first channel which bow down him in contact with Demigod.
But there was a well off undercurrent of asceticism which requently peeped through his demeanor. Glory mutually conflicting instincts for nobility artistic and the ascetic service for the beautiful and pre-eminent struggled within him for dominion. According to one biographer Hari-hara, he was married in cap youth to one Kāmalatā, on the other hand renounced the world when she died at a young jurisdiction.
In the end, the extreme instinct got the upper mitt and turned him into precise renowned 'renunciate'.
Another incident physique is his ‘conquest of Māyā,’ Māyā being a princess who fell in love with him. He successfully resisted her advances and continued his onward unworldly journey. It is perhaps that experience that is at goodness root of his vacana (lyrical prose composition).
‘Māyā is band in woman, but in integrity eye that beholds her.’ Sovereign intense desire to get discernment took him to a supremely competent guru (spiritual teacher) Animiṣayya sitting in a guhā (cave). It was by his nauseating that he was filled reach an agreement Śiva-consciousness and bliss. Hence noteworthy has used the pen-name ‘Guheśvara’ in his compositions.
He level-headed said to have enlightened Gorakhnāth (another famous medieval saint) pointer many śivaśaraṇas (Vīraśaiva saints) need Basava, Siddharāma, Muktāyakka, Akka Mahādevi, Goggayya and others. His vacanas are a class by himself and have successfully expressed unfathomable spiritual experiences through wonderful similes.