But the Virashaiva society was boiling with rage
expressed by the Virashaiva mystics.
Once he became a Virashaiva, he would be treated as an equal.
The new entrant was advised to treat every other Virashaiva as his equal.
All the stories recorded in Virashaiva literature say that Basava did take out money,
Ever so many stories are narrated by later Virashaiva writers of how Bijjala tried to fool Basava,
concern was to know whether a person was a Virashaiva or not: the genuineness of his Virashaivism,
Pashupatha Shaiva teacher should return it to a Virashaiva teacher and receive a new linga from him.
It is necessary to have an idea of the spiritual evolution as experienced and expressed by the Virashaiva mystics.
As days went by, it attracted more and more people and the Virashaiva missionaries spread their religion with zeal.
Ever so many stories are narrated by later Virashaiva writers of how Bijjala tried to fool Basava,
but was himself fooled.
But the Virashaiva society was boiling with rage
and was waiting for an opportunity to avenge the humiliation suffered by its leader.
All the stories recorded in Virashaiva literature say that Basava did take out money,
jewels and clothes from the treasury and distributed them among the jangamas.
He and his colleagues categorically stated that no Virashaiva should build a temple,
nor should he enter a temple and offer worship God, in the form of an ishta- linga, was on one' s own body, and He resided in one' s heart in His true form.