KSEEB Class 10 · English (1st language) · KTBS Revised 2024-25
Vachana
Chapter summary, hard words and model exam answers for Karnataka Board Class 10 English.
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About the author
Basavanna (Basava, 12th century) - poet-saint and reformer of the Lingayat Bhakti movement in Karnataka. His vachanas are short Kannada devotional poems urging honest labour and inner purity over empty ritual.
Summary
Basavanna wrote vachanas to reach common people in simple language, challenging caste pride and showy religion.
Basavanna wrote vachanas to reach common people in simple language, challenging caste pride and showy religion.
True devotion is not garlands and rote prayers alone but a clean heart and truthful speech.
True devotion is not garlands and rote prayers alone but a clean heart and truthful speech.
He teaches that honest work (kayaka) offered sincerely is prayer. A sweeper or farmer may be holier than a proud priest.
He teaches that honest work (kayaka) offered sincerely is prayer. A sweeper or farmer may be holier than a proud priest.
God does not ask your caste but your conduct. Social pride corrupts devotion.
God does not ask your caste but your conduct. Social pride corrupts devotion.
The poem speaks straight to Kudala Sangama Deva - intimate, questioning, fearless.
The poem speaks straight to Kudala Sangama Deva - intimate, questioning, fearless.
Basavanna's vachana asks us to match belief with action in daily life and respect all honest labour.
Basavanna's vachana asks us to match belief with action in daily life and respect all honest labour.
Hard words & meanings
| vachana | a Kannada Bhakti lyric in simple spoken style |
| kayaka | righteous labour offered as worship |
| Bhakti | loving devotion to God as personal lord |
| ritual | outward religious acts without inner change |
| humility | modest spirit Basavanna demands |
| reformer | person who challenges unjust customs |
| caste | hereditary social division Basavanna opposed |
| purity | moral cleanliness, not only bathing |
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