“Make your body the temple of God.”

—  Basava

[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–]

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a 12th-century Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada Bhakti… 1134–1196

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