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.