Sabarimala Makarajothi

The Sabarimala Devaswam, administering the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala in Kerala state of India, have answered to the High Court of the State, on their questioning whether the Makarajothi, a ball of light emerging at the horizon of the distant mountain at 14th of January every year, known as the Makara Jothi meaning the Light of Makara, when the sun enters the house of Makara during the winter soltice, is a divine phenomena as claimed by the priests and widely believed to be so for hundreds of years, a phenomena which, by its Divine nature pulls millions of believers to visit that Ayyappa temple, or is it a man made light,
that it IS a man made light, shattering the belief which existed for 100s of years, thus bringing the question of credibility of claims of not only this temple but also the entire gamut of religious believes, faith of not only contemporary origin but also the proclamations of priests, oracles, scripts, missionaries, fakirs, swamies about divine phenomena taking place as evidence of the existance and power of the supernatural beings such as God.

This raises the question whether the concept of God as a super natural being, Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent, capable of controlling your life, bringing good or bad things for the devoties, is mearely a concept formulated by vested interests to deceive, cheat, hoodwink, brainwash the masses to follow the ministrations of the Priests, Brahmins, Oracles.

This is not a small matter which is to be brushed aside by superstitious, stupid, sheepish minds, but a matter which profoundly affects the rationality of the rituals and beliefs of religion by millions of masses.