Teachings and Impacts of Ayyavazhi - Against Caste-discrimination

Against Caste-discrimination

Akilattirattu projected to the imagination of the followers of Ayyavazhi an ideal society where the caste discrimination did not exist. In its account of the past, Akilattirattu speaks of an age in which people lived as one family without the discrimination of caste. It blames the kalineesan for dividing the people on the basis of caste. It speaks of a future when Ayya Vaikundar will rule all the people with equality.

Other verses from Akilattirattu, such as

• "Cast away the eighteen castes and the demons into the mountain, fire and the sea"
• "Do not discriminate between the powerful and powerless"
• "The caste would disappear by itself"

point to the fact of a considerable indoctrination against the inequalities of castes.