Below is a video that appeared as a live streaming event today November 13—Day 4 of the 2021 Karthigai Deepam Festival, Arunachaleswarar Temple, Tiruvannamalai. The Arunachaleswarar Temple's You Tube channel is at this link. Subscribe to follow each day of this Festival.
The below photographs are of Day 4 of the 2021 Karthigai Deepam Festival celebrated at the Arunachaleswarar Temple and show the God alangarams in the beautifully decorated Kalayana Mandapam and thereafter the procession and darshan of the Gods around the Temple prakarams.
The 2021 Karthigai Deepam Festival at Arunachala will be similar to that of the Deepam Festival of 2020, in that the Festival will have a limited number of devotees allowed into the Temple compound and Festival observances and processions will be low-keyed. Processions also will not take place around the perimeter of the Temple (i.e. Mada Vedhis) but instead smaller processions will occur around the prakarams inside the Temple Compound.
Early morning Wednesday, November 10, 2021 and the hoisting of the flag (kodietram) on the flagpost outside the Siva Sannidhi, Arunachaleswarar Temple.
Later that morning a procession of the Gods took place inside the Temple Compound.
On Monday November 8, the second day of the Pre-Deepam Festival was observed at the Pidari Shrine, 3rd Prakaram, Arunachaleswarar Temple.
According to guidelines issued by the Tamil Nadu State government and the District authority in consideration of the Covid situation, Arunachaleswarar Temple authority issued Admission tickets for devotees for the Karthigai Deepam Festival.
The Temple issued 3000 tokens for local devotees and 10,000 tokens for devotees from other Districts and States. Thus a total of 13,000 devotees who have been issued Admission tokens will be allowed inside the Temple from November 7, 2021 to November 23, 2021 except for the dates Wednesday 17 November, 2021 to Saturday 20 November, 2021.
The Deepam festival started on November 7, 2021 with the Durgai Amman Utsavam and ends on November 28, 2021 with Sri Chandikeswar procession—the Festival is thus celebrated for a total of 17 days.
On Sunday November 7, the 2021 Karthigai Deepam Festival commenced at a function which included special abhishekam and procession at the Durgai Amman Temple, Chinnakadai Street, Tiruvannamalai.
