North Americans Visit the Lingayat Community in Taralabalu

Dr. Darrol Bryant regularly travels to India with groups of students. He takes them into the sacred heart of the land where most of the world’s major religions were born. On this trip Darrol sets out from Taralabalu Kendra in Bangalore to visit the head of the community, Dr. Shivamurthy Shivacharaya. Swamiji, as he likes to be known, is the current pontiff of a substantial Hindu community of Virashivites, or Lingayats, as they’re also called. They are unique group among Hindus for their monotheistic philos