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

— Basava

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]

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

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