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Basava était un important philosophe shivaïte, peut-être fondateur d'une secte shivaïte de premier ordre, chef en tout cas des lingâyat à son époque, un réformateur social hindou, ainsi qu'un poète mystique. Il pratiqua une politique à l'encontre du système de castes et des déviances dans la culture indienne dominante, l'hindouisme.

Il est aussi connu comme étant Krantikari Basavanna pour sa réforme dans le système social du XIIe siècle. On l'appela également comme "Vishva-guru", titre hautement honorifique. Ses enseignements et prédications dépassent toutes les frontières et sont universels. Il était un grand humanitaire. Basava a préconisé une nouvelle façon de vivre où l'expérience divine était le centre de la vie donnant l'égalité des chances à tous les aspirants indépendamment du genre, de la caste , et du statut social.

Ce mouvement spirituel shivaïte, celui des lingâyat, les « porteurs de linga » , encore nommés vîrashaiva, ou « shivaïtes héros », se développa en Inde du Sud et eut pour chef, et peut-être pour fondateur, Basava, qui considérait la divinité comme la cause première et unique du monde. La doctrine qu'il défendit s'explique en ces termes : l'essence de Shiva est le Brahman. C'est en lui que résidait, au début des temps, l'identité entre le monde empirique et l'âme universelle, et c'est en lui que se formera cette nouvelle identité. À travers la bhakti, l'homme entre en correspondance avec la shakti de Shiva et, moyennant la pratique du yoga, parvient à la fusion parfaite entre l'âme individuelle, la shakti et Shiva. Les adeptes, pour parvenir à l'union avec Shiva, doivent également porter le linga autour du cou en amulette. Cette confession refuse le mariage entre enfants, permet aux veuves de se remarier, refuse le système des castes, la pratique des sacrifices et les pèlerinages. Wikipedia  

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Basava: Citations en anglais

“The rich
Will make temples for Siva
what shall I, a poor man, do?
My legs are pillars,
the body the shrine,
the head the cupola of gold,
Listen, O! Lord:
Standing things shall fall,
that which moves shall stay”

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[Chekki, Danesh A., Religion and Social System of the Vīraśaiva Community, http://books.google.com/books?id=x7JZMy1qntgC&pg=PA48, 1 January 1997, Greenwood Publishing Group, 978-0-313-30251-0, 48–]

“Have faith in creator of this universe believe that he is omnipresent and Supreme power.”

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Basavanna's Preachings

“Never act in breach of trust.”

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Basavanna's Preachings

“Earn wealth through honest and truthful work.”

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Basavanna's Preachings

“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay.”

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Basava’s saying in his “The Lord of the Meeting Rivers: Devotional Poems of Basavanna” quoted in The Lord of the Meeting Rivers Quotes, 23 November 2013, Goodreads.com http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3772282-the-lord-of-the-meeting-rivers-devotional-poems-of-basavanna,

“Consume according to your requirements and contribute the rest to the society through Dasoha.”

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“Besides promoting a religious movement of unusual fervour, Sri Basaveshwara was also a great literary figure and was one of the makers of Kannada literature.”

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Indira Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India, quoted in [Gandhi, Indira, Selected Thoughts of Indira Gandhi: A Book of Quotes, http://books.google.com/books?id=vJbcODokoHsC&pg=PA35, 1985, Mittal Publications, 35–, GGKEY:A2GGQ58B3WF, 35]

“Work with a feeling that, there is none lower than me; There is none greater than society of Sharanas.”

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“Make your body the temple of God.”

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[Chekki, Danesh A., Religion and Social System of the Vīraśaiva Community, http://books.google.com/books?id=x7JZMy1qntgC&pg=PA48, 1 January 1997, Greenwood Publishing Group, 978-0-313-30251-0, 48–]

“Basaveshwara taught that each person was in direct relationship with God or with destiny and needs no one’s mediation.”

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Indira Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India, quoted in [Gandhi, Indira, Selected Thoughts of Indira Gandhi: A Book of Quotes, http://books.google.com/books?id=vJbcODokoHsC&pg=PA35, 1985, Mittal Publications, 35–, GGKEY:A2GGQ58B3WF, 35]

“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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Indira Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India, quoted in [Gandhi, Indira, Selected Thoughts of Indira Gandhi: A Book of Quotes, http://books.google.com/books?id=vJbcODokoHsC&pg=PA35, 1985, Mittal Publications, 35–, GGKEY:A2GGQ58B3WF, 35]

“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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Quoted in [Chekki, Danesh A. Chekki, Religion and Social System of the Vīraśaiva Community, http://books.google.com/books?id=x7JZMy1qntgC&pg=PA51, 1 January 1997, Greenwood Publishing Group, 978-0-313-30251-0, 51–]

“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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Basava’s saying in his “The Lord of the Meeting Rivers: Devotional Poems of Basavanna” quoted in The Lord of the Meeting Rivers Quotes, 23 November 2013, Goodreads.com http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3772282-the-lord-of-the-meeting-rivers-devotional-poems-of-basavanna,