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"Make your body the temple of God."
BasavaBasava (twelfth century AD), a Saivite saint of South India was a reli — Basava
"Basava (twelfth century AD), a Saivite saint of South India was a religious teacher, social reformer, and revolutionary who opposed image worship, rejected the Vedas, and the authority of the priests and instituted complete equality among his followers, even equality for women. He was the founder of the Lingayat sect."
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Basava (1131–1196), also called Basavēśvara and Basavanna, was an Indian philosopher, poet, Lingayat social reformer in the Shiva-focused bhakti movement, and a Hindu Shaivite social reformer during the reign of the Kalyani Chalukya and the Kalachuri Dynasty Basava was active during the rule of both dynasties, but his influence peaked during the reign of King Bijjala II in Karnataka, India
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"In a brahmin house where they feed the fire as a god when the fire goes wild and burns the house they splash on it the water of the gutter and the dust of the street, beat their breasts and call the crowd. These men then forget their worship and scold their fire, O lord of the meeting rivers!”"
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"Live morally, do not aspire for others Wealth, Women and God."
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"Though shall not steal nor kill; Not speak a lie; Be angry with no one, Nor scorn another man; Nor glory in thyself; Nor others hold you to blame This is your inward purity; This is your outward purity; This is the way to win our Lord: Kudalasangama"
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"Have faith in creator of this universe believe that he is omnipresent and Supreme power."
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"Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay."
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