#KandukuriVireshalingam

“A man forbidden to enter temples lifted a stone out of a river and called it Shiva; when the priests objected, he said he had installed an Ezhava Shiva — and within fifty years the state that had measured human pollution in feet threw open its temple doors to everyone.”

“He took Advaita — the doctrine that all being is one Self — off the bookshelf and enforced it. If all is one, caste is not merely cruel; it is a factual error. So he consecrated temples nobody had authorized, opened them to everybody, and gave Kerala a one-line constitution: one caste, one religion, one God for man.”