sentences:  Many rituals such as circumambulating temples and wearing symbols in the fore-head in Ayyavazhi resembles that of Hinduism with minimal variations.The theology, by all means make Vaikundar 'the Supreme' which makes it a unique sect than any others within Hinduism.Though Vaikundar is the incarnation of Ekam - the supreme, since Narayana plays a double role as father of Vaikundar and being within Vaikundar, the theology moves somehow in the path of Vaishnavism.