Temple landscape at sunset beside the river

The Great Sharanas

Five Lives • One Living Tradition

Five distinct lives revealing different expressions of spiritual realization.

FIVE SHARANA WORLDS

The Sharanas sought not merely to speak of spiritual truth,
but to realize it and live by it.

Traditional representation of Basava

BASAVA

Mystic • Reformer • Statesman

Traditional representation of Allama Prabhu

Allama Prabhu

Mystic • Poet-Seer • Shunya

Traditional representation of Akka Mahadevi

Akka Mahadevi

Divine Love • Renunciation • Union

Traditional representation of Chennabasava

Chennabasava

Wisdom • Harmony • Discipline

Shrine associated with Siddharameshwara

SIDDHARAMESHWARA

Action • Service • Realization

The legacy of the Sharanas lives wherever spiritual experience becomes a way of life.