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Sabarimala: Sabarimala has perhaps the largest gathering of devotees during the Makara Jyothi festival.
Dr VKG Nair from Delhi and software expert Shyam Shankar from Banglore takes the annual Sabarimala pilgrimage every year. "It's a part of our common heritage, part of our history and part of our culture. So I also want to be a part of that. So that's what brings me here. Here I feel at peace with myself and at peace with the world," says Shyam Shankar.
Lakhs of pilgrims from across the country trek to Sabarimala every year and for each one of them, its the faith in the Lord that keeps them going. "It's with lot of physical and mental purity for 41 days that you come here, and then you have so much faith in Lord Ayyappa, and all Keralalites wherever they go carry Ayyappa in their mind and that is a very important reason for everyone to come here," says Dr VKG Nair.
Now all eyes will be set on Sabarimala on January 14 when the celestial light or the Makara Jyothi will be sighted at Sabarimala. With every passing year, the pilgrims to Sabarimala keeps swelling making it the perfect ground for multi-lingual India to interact and with only a few days left for the sighting of the Makara Jyothi, Sabarimala could very well break its own records.
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