Decorated gate to the temple. (Glossary for the Vahinis)

The Gopuram beckons to way-farers who have lost their way and who wander away from truth, ‘O ye mortals! Blinded by the fog of physical attachment and self-aggrandising urges, overcome by the miasma of worldly desires, which are fleeting and false, you have forgotten Me, the source and sustenance of you all. Look up to this eternal ever pure, ever-full tower of joy. Forgetting Me, you are wallowing in grief. You are pursuing the mirage in the desert sands. Come; have faith in the Everlasting Me.

Struggle out of darkness and enter the realm of Light, and come to the royal road of Shanti. That is the Path of Dharma. Come, Come, O come’.

The light on top of the gopuram is the symbol of Light which is the refuge of all, it is the representative of unflickering inner lamp, lit at the self same flame, it is the inner Illumination, gained by merging in Hari. (DV, p. 76)