Basava also known as Bhakti Bhandari Basavanna  or Basaveshwara (1134–1196)) was an Indian philosopher, statesman and a social reformer from what is now Karnataka, India. First of all Basaveshwara is the only proponent of the rational practice of pranavidya(praanalinga saadhana or jangamaaradhane or ishwarapranidhaana)as an entry point to absolute transcendence. His terms of practice are knowing that praana/jangama alone is the perceivable level of existence of God's consciousness. He observed himself to be an earnest believer of the existence of ishwara perceivably only in prana as consciousness of the chaitanya-shakti(linga).