Since my return to India, there have been lot of good things happening in my life right from child until a new career. Hence we thought it was our duty to see the GOD in sabarimala and planned for a trip.
We were supposed to take the long route (Or the Periya paadhai) from Erumeli upto Sannithanam. My father and I decided to take the journey on Jan 4 and plan was to return on 8th afternoon.
Luckily, we got train tickets even while booking in the last moments. We had our Kattu Nirai at Anna Nagar Ayappan temple on the morning of 4th Jan Sunday.
We took the train on the same night around 7.45 PM and reached Kottayam around 8 AM and started from Erumeli from 1 PM.
This was my 10th yaatra and for dad, it was 29th.. Walk was relatively tough but we did manage to reach Pamba the next day 5th Jan at around 1 PM.
We were surprised to see the queue starting from Pamba itself to Malai. After our ordeal of 8 hours, we finally had a nice darshan. This was one of our toughest journeys but nevertheless it was an enjoyable one.
While returning, we noted that there was no Ghee Prasadam to buy and we had to wait the entire day to buy it. I then requested a Devaswom member to help me and finally after a wait of 1 hr, we got 2 bottles of ghee.
Whenever my heart forgets, God makes me remember him.
God bless us all
Swamiye Saranam Ayappa!
