SABARIMALAI

INITIATION

Any man, man only irrespective of age, caste, profession, language, religion, region etc. can adore him. Yes, adore him with a difference. It begins with wearing of Mala - a rosary for keeping count of the divine name after due propitiation, preferably in a temple under the aegis of Guru. 

The very moment he puts on the Mala around the neck, he becomes God Ayyappa in spirit, effect and merit. And Lo! he passes for divine Ayyappa till he reaches the Sannidhi, atop the Sabarimala by ascending the holy eighteen steps and offering prayers with the Pooja materials carried with him in the sacred Irumudi - an auspicious cloth bag with two compartments for keeping sacred objects of worship. The injunctions prescribed for the spiritual sadhaka are many, and rather rigorous. The Ayyappa according to the cult has to shed his ego-sense, manifested in anger, lust, greed and their vicious allies first and last.

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