SABARIMALAI

It is a summon sight in temples early in the mornings, the caste-conscious egoistical chandasa Brahmin Ayyappa paying homage to the outcaste nomad turned Ayyappa by touching the feet of hitherto deemed worthless, colorless sweeper, branded as Harijan biped, as an act of reverence in recognition of divinity embedded in him soon after initiation. 

This classless casteless perfect equality inducted by this newly emerged, much popular, ever commendable and all- adorable Ayyappa cult is a unique feature in the annals of Hinduism. And it is a fast growing rare phenomenon of the post independent India.

The meteoric speed with which the democratic spirit of this cult has encircled mankind; the monumental change of casteless, classless, colorless oneness in the performance of worship it ushered in; the tremendous power of igniting bhakti instincts lying dormant in the illiterate ignorant it embodied, the unsurpassable solace it is raining on the deliberately degraded and consciously condemned outcaste children, sinking in the bog of misery has neither superiors nor parallels, if truth is accepted; but none likes that pungent pill.

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