More than one lakh devotees today worshipped at the Sathya Gnana Sabari temple founded by saint Ramalinga Swamigal on the occasion of the 146th 'jothi darshan' festival held on the auspicious "Thai Poosam" day.
The devotees from various parts of the country and also from Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia and US had darshan of the jothi (flame) after the seven curtains were removed one by one.
There is no idol worship in the temple and only the 'jothi', which is shown six times on Thai Poosam day in the Tamil month of Thai.
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Ramalinga swamigal, popularly known as Vallalar, established the Sathya Dharma Sala on May 23, 1867 to feed the poor all the days and the oven he lighted that day is still burning to continue the great charity.
THe jothi darshan was started by Vallalar in 1872.
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