Shivakumara Swamiji Death  

Lingayat leader Mate Mahadevi said that tonsuring heads of the 8000 students of the Mutt is a superstition and the belief of Vaidiks and not Lingayats. Siddaganga Mutt is a Lingayat Mutt and professes principles of social reformer Basavanna.

One of the devotees who visited the Siddaganga Mutt to pay his last respects to Shivakumara Swamiji was served food at the mutt. The man tried to throw the unfinished food, when a student returned the disposal plate to him and asked him to throw it after finishing the food
 

Shivakumara Swamiji was 111 years old and was known as Walking God. He had recently undergone a surgery at Dr Rela Institute in Chennai in December 2018. His health started deteriorating a week ago and was being treated at Siddaganga Hospital in Tumakuru, Karnataka.