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Gendercide: Daughters of the Goddess

by Swami Nityamuktananda Saraswati

The Goddess , She is the dynamic power of permanent creation. We know

That, we worship HER and build HER temples. She expresses as all of creation; and in terms of humanity, she, the ordinary woman carries out Her work.

Women are her daughters in an infinite chain of Mothers creating daughters, creating Mothers. From the moment a woman is pregnant, her perception of existence changes from “I” to “we”; moreover at birth she surrenders totally to the power of life, the power of prana, the power of the divine Mother. And that is a natural spiritual process, whether the woman likes it or not, is aware of it or not. This is life in the realm of the Divine.

In a materialistic society, we forget that it is HER work and only see the outer form, the matter that presents itself to our eyes. Then we can kill because it is only matter that matters. This is the sign of a totally materialistic society. If matter is all that matters…it takes some of the most grotesques forms.
So in India and China 200 Million and more female babies/young children/young women have been killed… since records (in the 80’s) began through gender orientated abortion, or simply letting the baby-girl die in a field, on a road etc.  or actively kill the girl-child. It’s a horrendous practice on a horrendous scale.  
Female gendercide is also practiced, although on a lesser scale in countries like Korea, Taiwan and Singapore...and the Indian diaspora in various parts of the world… (and, yes, in some ways in many countries).

The reason: A son brings money to the family, a daughter costs money. Pure materialism…the “right to live, or any spiritual dimension totally forgotten.

In this way 40 million daughters of the Goddess have been slain in India alone (and every year 1 million more is added); furthermore hundreds of thousands of woman either die in the process or commit suicide after they killed their daughters.

My daughters died shortly before birth, I can sympathise with the pain of these Mothers to be – add to that the guilt of  “I killed my daughter”; it’s a horrendous devastating burden for woman to bear.

All this suffering for what? For the purushartha of artha: the principal of wealth advocated by the ancient spiritual values of the country (India), and/or materialism in all its ugly forms everywhere.

But what is equally horrendous is that we, the ordinary people, suffer from Acedia (a term made famous by St. Benedict for the chosen blindness of his monks) the attitude of “I don’t want to know!” The lack of awareness is topped by the ignoring of the issue! We eat, we drink, we celebrate, we worship we continue with life as if nothing has happened.

We build a temple to HER, conduct Pujas to HER, we worship HER, yet kill her daughters!  This Acedia, this ignoring of the monstrous activity makes us participants in sharing in the killing of HER daughters!

And, yes, many of the observers hide behind: there is nothing we can do, it’s custom, it’s  karma; its Kali-Yuga… or  woman suffer all over the world...in many ways, “there is nothing we can do” is the lamenting refrain.

And the poor women who suffer it, they too hide behind acedia; feeling they have to co-operate, they have to …accept. First and foremost, woman need education…not of the degree- kind… but of her own self-worth. Woman need to learn to see themselves as daughters of the Goddess/ the Creatrix! HER power is in them; SHE herself is empowering them…

The observer too has to be educated, to speak up and help to stop the murderous practice. The Gynecological  and ultrasound-scans are multimillion business. This horrendous practice is especially vigorous in the middle class and well to go economical! –not the poor!

This is on a scale, an immensity that is on a totally different scale – as well as hitting at the core spirituality/ethics and morals of every possible perception. With dire consequences.

In the main culprit countries, there is now (and mounting) a ration of 125 men to a hundred  women. In a pocket in India it’s 300 women to 1000 men. (Statistic vary of course somewhat, especially in different part of the country, but also within countries)

The criminality, abduction and rape that is an unavoidable consequence of this is phenomenal. Raids like we know from the past (the abduction/robbing of the Sabines), marauding bands of man to steal abduct and rape woman in neighbouring areas and countries are unavoidable. Alarm was raised in the world when a young woman recently was brutally raped in Delhi ... but the waves have all too quickly calmed down… these kind of incidences will multiply.. and worse (if that is imaginable) might happen.

Please stand up, and pray that we find solutions, to stop the killing of the daughters of the Goddess.