KAILASA's International Day of Rural Women

 On 15 October, on International Day of Rural Women, KAILASA Nation released a report in observance of the hard-earned efforts of the SPH and the Hindu diaspora of KAILASA Nation have done for establishing peace amongst communities, achieving gender equality, and empowering indigenous aboriginal women with equal opportunities of livelihood in fight against extreme poverty, hunger and malnutrition.

KAILASA commemorates this day adjoined with the United Nations International Day of Rural Women in collaboration International agencies — ShriKailasa Uniting Nations for Indigenous Women, ShriKailasa Uniting Nations for Feminine Empowerment and Gender Equality.

Aboriginal Indigenous Agriculturalist Tribe (AIAT) of Hindus hailing from India have roots in the ancient, enlightened Vedic civilization. These indigenous traditions are known for their progressive ideologies — gender equality and empowerment by which women are not merely respected as equal to men, rather worshipped as a manifestation of Devi Parashakti (supreme primordial cosmic divinity).

यत्र नार्यस्र्य तुपज्ू यन्तेरमन्तेतत्र देवताः ।

यत्रता ै स्तुन पज्ू यन्तेसर्वास्तत्राफलाः क्रियाः ॥

५६ ॥ yatra nāryastu pūjyante ramante tatra devatāḥ |

yatraitāstu na pūjyante sarvāstatrāphalāḥ kriyāḥ || 56 ||

Where Women are honored, divinity blossoms there, and wherever women are dishonored, all action no matter how noble it may be remains unfruitful.

Manu Smriti Chapter 3, Verse 56

These indigenous communities are subjected to continuous persecution spanning over a thousand years such that they have been forced to flee their native ancestral land and take refuge in several countries worldwide including Australia, South America, Canada, Africa, Malaysia and many parts of the world. The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam hails from and is a spiritual patron of the Ādi Śaiva Vēḷāḷar community and has guided KAILASA to empower the Indigenous AIAT (Aborginal Indeginous Agricultural Tribes) women through several initiatives for the last 27 years that assist to recognise and awake the peaceful yet powerful assertion of identity especially for women and children.

These initiatives resolve to protect the indigenous rights of women to live with respect and dignity, maintaining their temple-based cultural lifestyle and the ancient rich tradition of indigenous knowledge transfer based on Vedas and Agamas — the source scriptures of Sanatana Hindu Dharma (Hinduism).

Read more about the initiative here in the report on Internation Rural Day of Women: https://kailaasa.org/documents/international-day-rural-women.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2sv2m5N2iNIXJhkmVsE3IySPeLUXGmhsvq0audsePRp5kvdmNTseRwGWA