Guest guest Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 Om Namah Sivaya Allama Prabhu Allama Prabhu was a contemporary of Basavanna and Mahadevi in the Siva bhakti movement of the Kannada-speaking regions in southern India. While Basavanna was considered the primary organizer of the community, Allama was in many ways thought of as the spiritual leader, the most realised of these realised poet-saints.Many of his poems are addressed to Siva as Guhesvara or "the Lord of Caves." A popular story is told about the life of Allama Prabhu to explain this name: Allama was said to have been a temple drummer when he fell in love with a beautiful young woman. But the woman caught fever and died. In his grief, Allama abandoned everything and began to wander. One day, he was sitting desolate in a field and noticed something strange -- the golden cupola of a buried temple. He began to dig about it until he found the doorway and managed to enter the excavated temple-cave. There he found a yogi absorbed in deep meditation. The yogi handed Allama a linga, and then the yogi expired. In that very instant, Allama was enlightened. Allama Prabhu's Vachanas For all their search For all their search they cannot see the image in the mirror. It blazes in the circles between the eyebrows. Who knows this has the Lord. Light Lightdevoured darkness.I was aloneinside.Sheddingthe visible darkIwas Your targetO Guhesvara (Siva). Looking for your light Looking for your light,I went out: it was like the sudden dawn of a million million suns, a ganglion of lightnings for my wonder. O Guhesvara, if you are light, there can be no metaphor. Sivaya Namah Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Try it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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