The Yatra to Sabhari Malai Contd...

I give three reasons why the Dewaswom Board will not be able to provide better facilities:

1. The Sannidhanam is right in the middle of thick reserve forest. It is not anywhere near large urban agglomerations, unlike Thirumala or Vaishno Devi. The journey from Nilakkal Estate the neartest human habitation to Pamba is thick jungle. The human presence is a thin crust over the layers of jungle waiting to reclaim the whole place the minute human beings move out. (Have we not heard tales of how elephants and tigers move into the temple precincts after the Makara Jyothi? Have we not heard that before the Periyaa Paathai or “Long Route” is opened up by the forest department for the Makara Jyothi, the Mel Thanthri first chants mantras and uses tantric mudras to lock the animals and keep them at bay temporarily during the season?)
2. To further construct or erode into the jungle would irreparably damage the bio-diversity of the place.
3. The fact that the temple is open only for hardly 150 days in the year.

Lastly Ayyappan himself came to Sabhari Malai to meditate; so why disturb him? After all He is free and ready to see us at Ariyagkaavu, Achan Kovil and kulathu Puzha!