In Lingayat Ishtalinga Dharane will be performed when the mother is pregnant (around 7 months of pregnancy). Guru Basava/160 Īny one can become Lingayat by receiving Ishtalinga by ‘Ishtalinga Deeksha’ (consecrate). In the end concealing it within itself, is the spider. Spreading it about, swinging in it in love any one becomes an officer by scoring good marks not by taking birth in officer’s house. This is equivalent of current education system. In Lingayat all are equal by birth differentiation is based on the knowledge they possess. And rejects all the superstitions beliefs. Lingayat literature explains the clear proper concept of GOD, and provides a way to worship the GOD in the form of Ishtalinga.
Lingayathism (ಲಿಂಗವಂತ, ಲಿಂಗಾಯತ, Lingavanta, Lingayat) is started in the 12th century by Guru Basaveshwara Lingayat has the aim to stop the evil, traditions, to stop bifurcating people by birth, to stop male female inequality, to provide education to people.
