Who are adi saivas? Will adi saivas come into Brahmins?

Question

Who are adi saivas? Will adi saivas come into Brahmins?

Answer 1

Gurukkal or Sivacharya or Adisaiva Brahmins are a sub-sect of Vadamas of Brahmin community not recognized as one amongst them and whose duties are to worship at temples. Gurukkal is a corrupt form of Gurukul is a sect of Brahmins who worship in the temples of Lord Shiva. While Gurukkal is used only for Saivites, Pattar and Archak are used for Vaishnavites. While most of the tamil brahmins are smarthas, they are saivates. In addition to veda they follow saiva agamas originated in Kashmir. They believe that agamams were taught to them directly from siva to judge the Agamas they follow. They learn veda along with agamas. It is interesting to note that gurukkal were called adisaivas while smarthas called mahasaivas...

Answer 2

The equivalent of the Tamil word 'Bhattar', 'Gurukkal' or 'Bhattachariyar' in other languages is known as Bhat, Bhatta, Bhattacharjee, Raval, Panda, Pandey, Pandit, Namboodri, Dikshit, Purohit and others. They do not themselves 'worship' the deities in Hindu temples, but perform puja, abhishekam and other rituals at the temple and enable the rest of the society to worship the deities and derive peace, comfort and happiness.

Answer 3

Yes they are the followers of Lord Shiva.They belong to top category of Brahmins