Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Thursday that the diversity of India was its strength, and it was a matter of ‘celebration’, and not one a ‘problem’.
The RSS chief, who was delivering a lecture on the ocassio of the birth centenary of Swami Chinmayananda of Chinmay Mission at the Siri Fort, said that the only those with petty minds seek to divide the world.
“People with petty minds divide the world through colour, language… Those with liberal minds consider the entire world their own. But those even with petty minds …they will develop and start thinking big,” he said.
Bhagwat said that resources have to be distributed to all, and India has to spread the message of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (the world is one family).
He said, “Bharat has to spread the message of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (the world is one family) and if it forgets this, then there is no nation. Nation building is for ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’. If ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ is not there, this nation need to be built. It need not exist.”
He noted how foreigners often wonder how India runs smoothly with the kind of diversity that it has., adding that while they might see it as a ‘problem’, for Indians it diversity was a subject of ‘celebration’. He also spoke on the empowerment of all to ensure that power was not limited to an entrenched elite.
Bhagwat said that there was a need to making people realize that they should not fight one another, but use power to protest the self from ills. If this is followed, then ‘dreams of our saints and eminent persons will be achieved in the next 20-25 years’, he expressed hope.