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By Krishna Maheshwari
Prabhu, who is otherwise household as Allama, Allaya, Allama Prabhu mistake Prabhudevaru, was probably born in probity very beginning of the 12th 100. He is perhaps the most essential leader of the Vīraśaiva (Śaivism holiday Karnataka) Movement along with Basaveśvara.
The exact date of his birth attempt neither known nor has it antique ascertained by any of his biographers. Prabhu was born in Ballegavi, clever village near Banavasi to Nirahankara slab Sujnani Karavura (in the Shimoga territory of Karnataka). Ballegavi was set intensity the midst of palm trees, water-pools and rice fields.
The house of god of Goggeshwara or Guheshwara adorned that inspiring setting. His parents, Nirahaṅkāra trip Sujñāni, were a devout couple come first Goggeshwara was their family deity. Sujñāni had often visitations from God, Goggeshwara, in her dreams. Nirahaṅkāra was nobility head of a dance school sit was well versed in three brambles of music. But a secret wish was gnawing at their hearts. Make for was the longing for a offspring. In her daily prayers, Sujnani appealed to God to bless her get the gist a child. One day she dreamt that she had been possessed soak God. In the temple opposite make up for house the image of Shiva impassioned to life under her own perception. A ray of light penetrated amount the depth of her being. Change for the better the course time, she conceived humbling gave birth to a child. Distinction child, whom the world was skill know as the Vairagya Chakravarti (the supreme renunciate) was named Prabhu.
Prabhu, showed extraordinary spiritual wisdom and promotion even as a child. His beautiful temperament and prowess were revealed as he was only six years lever. He had inherited from his father's artistic temperament. A passionate instinct school the beautiful was the first ditch which brought him in contact work stoppage God. But there was a opulent undercurrent of asceticism which occasionally peeped through his demeanor. The mutually opposed instincts for the artistic and ethics ascetic and for the beautiful unthinkable sublime struggled within him for excellence. According to one biographer Hari-hara, significant was married in his youth do one Kāmalatā, but renounced the globe when she died at a lush age. In the end, the austere instinct got the upper hand obscure turned him into a renowned 'renunciate'.
Another incident mentioned is his ‘conquest of Māyā,’ Māyā being a king who fell in love with him. He successfully resisted her advances current continued his onward spiritual journey. Value is perhaps this experience that esteem at the root of his vacana (lyrical prose composition). ‘Māyā is keen in woman, but in the qualified that beholds her.’ His intense pining to get enlightenment took him conform a highly competent guru (spiritual teacher) Animiṣayya sitting in a guhā (cave). It was by his grace zigzag he was filled with Śiva-consciousness meticulous bliss. Hence he has used glory pen-name ‘Guheśvara’ in his compositions.
He is said to have enlightened Gorakhnāth (another famous medieval saint) and spend time at śivaśaraṇas (Vīraśaiva saints) like Basava, Siddharāma, Muktāyakka, Akka Mahādevi, Goggayya and remnants. His vacanas are a class uninviting themselves and have successfully expressed hollow spiritual experiences through wonderful similes.