One of the most important offering at the
Symbolically, the ‘ghee’ in the coconut represents the ‘soul.’ And the human body is represented by the coconut. After the arduous trek, when a devotee stands face to face with Lord Ayyappa – the ghee poured on the Lord symbolically represents the merging of the individual soul with the universal soul or the ‘Jivatma’ with ‘Paramatma.’
Finally, the empty coconut, which represents the body, is consumed by the fire in the ‘homakundam.’
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12 comments:
Wonderful explanation of the entire process I understood the significance of each and every step right from austerity to irrummudi how it is done why it is done to the rituals to be observed at the temple it is an eye opener for a person like me. Please post more articles like these so that people like can understand the significance and follow it with heart mind and soul.
May god bless
Partha
swamye saranam ayyappa...... ellam avan seyal.......................
very useful information
swamiye sarnam ayyappa
Really very informative. Good Work
Good Job mate..Very useful for all the ayyappa devotees.God bless you.
Very useful information for a beginer.
Swamiye Saranam Aiyyapa
very nice explanation. swamiyae saranam iyyapa
very simple to understand. After understanding the meanings and purposes we can giveup everything to god.
Balasubramanian, Trichy
Very well defined
good eye opening message,what we are doing is all in"puram"the same should be done in"agam"to achieve this we have to do tavam as what Lord Ayyappan does in Sabari,only through tavam jivaatma can merge with paramaathma then only sees iraivan as arutperumjothi where its shown "puraulagam"as magarajothi in ayyappan valipaadu.
my husband got irumudi on 10th december morning , night we have lunar eclipse is there any problem
No there is no problem. Ayyappa is the remover of all difficulties.
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