The recent stampede at Sabarimala temple during the annual “Makar jyothi” (celestial light) festival in which more than 100 people were killed and unaccounted injured , has exposed the temple authorities’ and state government’s ulterior motive to cheat the gullible devotees, not one or two days, but decades together in the name of faith.
From the days immemorial, Ayyappa devotees have been thronging to the hill shrine during the “Makaravilaku” season, only to witness the celestial light popularly known as “Makar Jyoti” or “Makaravilakku” during the evening hours on Makar Shankaranti day on the hill called Ponnambalamedu. It’s been believed by the devotees that the Lord Ayyappa himself appears as a light across the hill three times during those occasion. Hundreds and thousands of devotees, notwithstanding the lack of space and inadequate civic facilities available there, stand on the hill sides to witness the event.
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