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Water
10 May 2011, 07:30 AM
Are there any veerashaivites here?

Does anyone know good resources? I would like to know more, but the information I can find is disjointed and limited. It seems there was a U.S. movement but, again, it seems the groups are extremely limited and disjointed.

Baobobtree
12 May 2011, 09:14 PM
Namaste Water.

I am myself not a Veerashaiva in the strictest sense of the term, however I do take inspiration from the teaching of various Veerashaiva acharyas like Basavanna, Akka Mahadevi, and Allama Prabhu. In particular anti-casteism, vegetarianism, gender equality, and the non-infallibility and non-eternal nature of the 4 Vedas, appeals to me.

There is a fairly well done website on Sri Basavanna's life and teachings here- http://www.vishwagurubasavanna.com/ otherwise internet resources on the Lingayat/Veerashaiva movement are pretty scarce. Unfortunately many modern day Lingayats have discarded the core teachings of Basavanna and again practice casteism (with Lingayats themselves often been considered a separate caste of their own). Many also worship Non-Shaiva deities (eg: Vishnu), though I personally have no quarrel with this.

Water
12 May 2011, 09:49 PM
Thank you!

Unfortunately, this site seems a bit like all the others: there are a few working pages but the rest seem abandoned. :(

I was particularly interested in dasoha. I had read that virashaivas were proponents of technology, medicine and teaching.

The western groups seem all but disappearing. :\

Vishahara
01 December 2011, 03:55 PM
Maybe this quite long and detailed article will be useful for you. This is talks with Veerashaiva Guru from Jangamvadi Math in Benares

Interview with Kashi Jagadguru Mahaswamiji,

the spiritual teacher of Shivaite tradition

http://wildyogi.info/en/issue/gauri-interview-shri-chandrashekhar-mahaswamiji-spiritual-teacher-shivaite-tradition