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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Sanskrit phrase from the Maha Upanishad meaning "the world is one family"}}<br />
[[File:Sansad Bhavan, Delhi, BNK.jpg|thumb|The "world is a family" verse of ''Maha Upanishad'' is engraved in the entrance hall of the [[Parliament of India]].<ref name=sshah449/>]]<br />
'''Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam''' is a [[Sanskrit]] phrase found in [[Hindu texts]] such as the [[Maha Upanishad]], which means "the world is one family".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesnow.tv/DNA-of-non-violence-engrained-in-our-society-PM/articleshow/4463308.cms|title=DNA of non-violence engrained in our society: PM|date=2 September 2014|work=[[Times Now]]|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Translation==<br />
The phrase {{transl|sa|ISO|Vasudhaiva Kuṭumbakam}} ({{lang-sa|वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्}}) consists of several words: {{transl|sa|ISO|vasudhā}} ({{trans|'the earth'}});<ref>[http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?tinput=vasudhA&script=&direction=SE&link=yes vasudhA] Sanskrit English Dictionary, Koeln University, Germany</ref> {{transl|sa|ISO|ēva}} ({{trans|'is thus'}});<ref>[https://www.sanskritdictionary.com/evam/45695/1 Sanskrit Dictionary]</ref> and {{transl|sa|ISO|kuṭumbakam}} ({{trans|'family'}}).<br />
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==History==<br />
:अयं निजः परो वेति गणना लघुचेतसाम्। (ayaṃ nijaḥ paro veti gaṇanā laghucetasām)<br />
:उदारचरितानां तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्॥ (udāracaritānāṃ tu vasudhaiva kuṭumbakam)<br />
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The original [[Verse (poetry)|verse]] appears in Chapter 6 of [[Maha Upanishad]] VI.71-73.<ref name=jeffreymoses12/><ref name=robinseelan143>Robin Seelan (2015), Deconstructing Global Citizenship (Editors: Hassan Bashir and Phillips Gray), Routledge, {{ISBN|978-1498502580}}, page 143</ref><ref>BP Singh and [[Dalai Lama]] (2008), Bahudhā and the Post 9/11 World, Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|978-0195693553}}, page 51</ref> Also found in the [[Rig Veda]], it is considered the most important moral value in the Indian society.{{Sfn|Hattangadi|2000|loc= षष्ठोऽध्यायः ७१- ७३, Quote: अयं बन्धुरयं नेति गणना लघुचेतसाम् । उदारचरितानां तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम् ॥ भावाभावविनिर्मुक्तं जरामरणवर्जितम् । प्रशान्तकलनारभ्यं नीरागं पदमाश्रय ॥ एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः स्वच्छा निष्कामा विगतामया । आदाय विहरन्नेवं सङ्कटेषु न मुह्यति ॥ (...)}}<ref>AG Krishna Warrier (1953), [[Maha Upanishad]], Theosophical Society, Madras, [http://www.advaita.it/library/mahaupanishad.htm Online], Verse VI.71–73</ref><ref name=sshah449/> This verse of ''Maha Upanishad'' is engraved in the entrance hall of the [[parliament of India]].<ref name=sshah449>S Shah and V Ramamoorthy (2014), [https://books.google.com/books?id=1_u7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA449#v=onepage&q=449&f=false Soulful Corporations], Springer Science, {{ISBN|978-8132212744}}, page 449</ref><br />
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<poem><br />
One is a relative, the other stranger, <br />
say the small minded.<br />
The entire world is a family, <br />
live the magnanimous.<br />
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Be detached,<br />
be magnanimous,<br />
lift up your mind, enjoy<br />
the fruit of Brahmanic freedom.<br />
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|source = —''Maha Upanishad'' 6.71–75{{Sfn|Hattangadi|2000|loc= षष्ठोऽध्यायः ७१- ७३, Quote: अयं बन्धुरयं नेति गणना लघुचेतसाम् । उदारचरितानां तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम् ॥ भावाभावविनिर्मुक्तं जरामरणवर्जितम् । प्रशान्तकलनारभ्यं नीरागं पदमाश्रय ॥ एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः स्वच्छा निष्कामा विगतामया । आदाय विहरन्नेवं सङ्कटेषु न मुह्यति ॥ (...)}}<ref name=jeffreymoses12>Jeffrey Moses (2002), Oneness, Random House Publishing, {{ISBN|0-345457633}}, page 12</ref><br />
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Subsequent [[ślokas]] go on to say that those who have no attachments go on to find the [[Brahman]] (the one supreme, universal Spirit that is the origin and support of the phenomenal universe). The context of this verse is to describe as one of the attributes of an individual who has attained the highest level of spiritual progress, and one who is capable of performing his worldly duties without attachment to material possessions.<ref>AG Krishna Warrier (1953), ''Maha Upanishad'', Theosophical Society, Madras, [http://www.advaita.it/library/mahaupanishad.htm Online]</ref><br />
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==Influences==<br />
The text has been influential in the major Hindu literature that followed it. The popular [[Bhagavata Purana]], the most translated of the [[Purana]] genre of literature in Hinduism,{{Sfn|Sheridan|1986|pp=1–16}} for example, calls the ''Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam'' adage of the ''Maha Upanishad'', as the "loftiest [[Vedanta|Vedantic]] thought".{{Sfn|Badlani|2008|p=184}}<br />
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Dr N. Radhakrishnan, former director of the Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, believes that the Gandhian vision of holistic development and respect for all forms of life; nonviolent conflict resolution embedded in the acceptance of nonviolence both as a creed and strategy; were an extension of the ancient Indian concept of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mkgandhi.org/articles/Radhakrishnan.htm |first=N. |last=Radhakrishnan |title=Gandhi In the Globalised Context}}</ref><br />
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==References in the modern world==<br />
India's Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] used this phrase in a speech at World Culture Festival, organized by Art of Living, adding that "Indian culture is very rich and has inculcated in each one of us with great values, we are the people who have come from [[Aham Brahmasmi]] to Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, we are the people who have come from Upanishads to Upgraha.(Satellite)."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVFyqbQFnWk|title = - YouTube|website = [[YouTube]]}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb]]<br />
*[[Unity in diversity#India|Unity in diversity]]<br />
*[[Religious syncretism]]<br />
*[[Hindutva]]<br />
*[[Hindu–Islamic relations]]<br />
*[[We Are the World]]<br />
*[[Kaniyan Pungundranar|Yaadhum Oore Yaavarum Kelir]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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===Bibliography===<br />
*{{cite book|last= Badlani |first=Hiro G. |title=Hinduism: Path of the Ancient Wisdom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VCdWXWk6nEcC|date=September 2008|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-0-595-70183-4}}<br />
*{{Cite web|url=http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_upanishhat/maha.pdf |title= महोपनिषत् (''Maha Upanishad'')|access-date=20 January 2016| language = sa|last= Hattangadi| first= Sunder| year= 2000 }}<br />
*{{cite book| last=Sheridan| first=Daniel| title= The Advaitic Theism of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa |publisher=South Asia Books |location=Columbia |year=1986 |isbn=81-208-0179-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qrtYYTjYFY8C }}<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{cite journal |last=Chung |first=Tan |date=2009 |title=Towards a Grand Harmony |journal=India International Centre Quarterly |volume=36 |number=3/4 |pages=2–19 |jstor=23006398}}<br />
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