Thaipusam and Milk Abishegam <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: "ca-pub-2960278825814307", enable_page_level_ads: true }); </script> This article is to enlighten many of us including the Anaryas (the non-Hindus). Pouring milk (abhiseka) on the statue (Vigraha) by devotees during Thaipusam is questioned by some Anaryas (non-Hindus), assumed it was a waste, even some prominent figure among Indians in Malaysia had doubts. Some said that doing abhisheka ( is good but it turns bad because the milk is not drunk by the devotees, it is wasted and it is sin. So no benefit. For their information, Nobody pours the milk into the drain to call it waste! Abishegam is the agamic ritual practiced in temples for deity (statue) from the day temples were built (Shilpi Shas