In Worship Centers
The Pathis and the Nizhal Thangals are considered as the primary centers propagating Ayyavazhi teachings, apart from the religious status and relations to each other. Also these centers in common are the grounds where the theoritical ideas of the scriptures being practised, though the Nizhal Thangals rather than the Pathis have their own limits. Besides those ritual there is a lot of phenomenological inclusions and exclusions in those centers directly and indirectly.
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