For millions of devotees Sree Ayyappa remains for ever a perpetual fount of peace in an age of strife and unrest-a sure refuge in times of the storms of violence. Their only goal being the blissful ecstacy of the vision of the Lord and the resultant liberation from the unavailing cares of mundane life, they are unmindful of the rigors of the ritual austerities or of the hardships encountered on the arduous journey to the shrine on the holy mount. They ...
