ಆದರೆ ಈ ವಚನಗಳು 'ಅಧರಕ್ಕೆ ಕಹಿ, ಉದರಕ್ಕೆ ಸಿಹಿ, ಬೇವು
ಸವಿದಂತೆ' ಎಂಬುದನ್ನು ಅರುಹಲು ಬಸವಣ್ಣನವರು ಮರೆತಿಲ್ಲ.
ಉದರಕ್ಕೆ ಸಿಹಿಯಾದ ಇಂಥ ಸುಧೆಯನ್ನು ವಿಪುಲವಾಗಿ ನೀಡಿ,
'ಅನುಭವ ಮಂಟಪ' ದ ಶರಣರು ಜನರಲ್ಲಿ ಅಮರಜೀವನದ
ರುಚಿಯನ್ನು ಉಂಟು ಮಾಡಿದರು.
ಶ್ರೀ ಗುರುದೇವ ರಾನಡೆಯವರು ಅರುಹಿದ ಮೇರೆಗೆ :
"The institution of 'Anubhava-Mantap' or the
Assembly Hall of Spiritual Experience at Kalyan... was a
sanctuary, in which gathered aspirants and devotees for
filling the heavens with the praise and glory of God's
name. At the portals of this Spiritual Assembly, every
earnest seeker after divinity brought in all humility, his
own spiritual experience and occupied the place in the
Assembly to whoch his spiritual experience entitled him.
One of the chief aims of the institution was to democratise
religion and free it from ritualism and visionary
theoreticism. It wiped out all distinctions of caste, creed
and sex, and held aloft the dictum that one's own appointed
work done in the spirit of dedication (Kayakave Kailas)
leads to heaven. Mutual love and pursuit after a common
Spiritual Goal constituted the binding force among the
members... It was at this Assembly that highly philosophical
discussions on the theoretical and practical aspects of
appropriation of Reality took place, and in this sense the
Anubhava-Mantap resembled the court of King Janaka of
the Upanisadic times.23
23. P.G.K. P. 309-310
