SWAMIYE SARANAM AYYAPPA 🙏 How to observe Sabarimala Mandala Vratham? - 41-day Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple Vratam Lord Ayyappa devotees who wish to go to Sabarimala Temple observe vratham and follow certain austerities for one mandalam season that is 41 days. The main aim of the Mandala Kala Vratam is to purify the mind and soul. The Mandalam season begins in the Malayalam month Vrichikam and ends in the middle of Dhanu month. Austerities followed during Mandala Vratham Waking up early and having a bathand either visit a nearby shrine or pray at home.All devotees take food only after bath and pooja. Non-vegetarian food is totally prohibited during the 41 day period. Devotees try to consume freshly cooked vegetarian food. Evening bath and visiting a shrine or puja at home is performed.All devotees are complusorily observe Brahmacharyam (no sex or celibacy) during the vratham period. Those devotees going to the Sabarimala temple apart from observing the austerities should also wear a mala made from Rudrakhsam or Tulsi beeds. This ritual is known as Maladharanam. It is always preferred to wear the mala through their Guruswamy in case of non-availability the mala canbe wear from a temple priest..Swami Saranam. Devotees during this period wear blue, black or ochre (yellow-orange color) dhoti. All devotees should not cut their hair, stroke nails or shave during the Mandalam period. All Ayyappa devotees if possible avoid wearing footwear during this period. The Vratham canbe terminated after visiting the shrine after performing certain spirituals at home or as per the advise of the Guruswamy Wearing garland a couple of days prior to visiting the shrine is not advisable. A man who practices any spiritual discipline rigidly, at any cost, is really doing ‘tapas’. The inner meaning of ‘tapas’ is burning. It burns all karmas and all ignorance.That is the cruch of the viradham.If it is rigidly practice atleast for this 41 days at a stretch one should certainly reach onestep higher in their life than before in the part of truth SWAMI SARANAM...GURUVE SARANAM..PANVEL BALAGAN PATHAM POTRI POTRI..