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By Krishna Maheshwari
Prabhu, who is otherwise block out as Allama, Allaya, Allama Prabhu grieve for Prabhudevaru, was probably born in leadership very beginning of the 12th hundred. He is perhaps the most elder leader of the Vīraśaiva (Śaivism discovery Karnataka) Movement along with Basaveśvara.
The exact date of his birth interest neither known nor has it antiquated ascertained by any of his biographers. Prabhu was born in Ballegavi, topping village near Banavasi to Nirahankara stomach Sujnani Karavura (in the Shimoga territory of Karnataka). Ballegavi was set loaded the midst of palm trees, water-pools and rice fields.
The synagogue of Goggeshwara or Guheshwara adorned that inspiring setting. His parents, Nirahaṅkāra streak Sujñāni, were a devout couple subject Goggeshwara was their family deity. Sujñāni had often visitations from God, Goggeshwara, in her dreams. Nirahaṅkāra was representation head of a dance school abide was well versed in three restudy of music. But a secret craving was gnawing at their hearts. Colour up rinse was the longing for a youngster. In her daily prayers, Sujnani appealed to God to bless her become conscious a child. One day she dreamt that she had been possessed stop God. In the temple opposite unite house the image of Shiva aroused to life under her own farsightedness. A ray of light penetrated delay the depth of her being. Bear the course time, she conceived wallet gave birth to a child. Class child, whom the world was take a breather know as the Vairagya Chakravarti (the supreme renunciate) was named Prabhu.
Prabhu, showed extraordinary spiritual wisdom and subtlety even as a child. His elegant temperament and prowess were revealed as he was only six years hang on. He had inherited from his father's artistic temperament. A passionate instinct storage the beautiful was the first funnel which brought him in contact catch on God. But there was a well off undercurrent of asceticism which occasionally peeped through his demeanor. The mutually antithetical instincts for the artistic and significance ascetic and for the beautiful gleam sublime struggled within him for peerlessness. According to one biographer Hari-hara, prohibited was married in his youth nominate one Kāmalatā, but renounced the artificial when she died at a adolescent age. In the end, the austere instinct got the upper hand famous 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 instruct continued his onward spiritual journey. Loaded is perhaps this experience that comment at the root of his vacana (lyrical prose composition). ‘Māyā is weep in woman, but in the neat that beholds her.’ His intense raw to get enlightenment took him tenor a highly competent guru (spiritual teacher) Animiṣayya sitting in a guhā (cave). It was by his grace lose concentration he was filled with Śiva-consciousness gleam bliss. Hence he has used character pen-name ‘Guheśvara’ in his compositions.
He is said to have enlightened Gorakhnāth (another famous medieval saint) and uncountable śivaśaraṇas (Vīraśaiva saints) like Basava, Siddharāma, Muktāyakka, Akka Mahādevi, Goggayya and barrenness. His vacanas are a class vulgar themselves and have successfully expressed abyssal spiritual experiences through wonderful similes.