Showing posts with label Sarve Bhavantu Sukhina. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Sarve Bhavantu Sukhina

Sarve Bhavantu Sukhina


“Sarve Bhavantu Sukhina ,
Sarve Santu Niramaya
Sarve Bhadrani Pashyantu ,
Maa Kaschit Dukha Bhagh Bhavet”

May all be happy;
May all be without disease;
May all have well-being;
May none have misery of any sort.
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Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam




Five thousand years ago, when nationalism did not even exist as a concept, Indian Thought talked of Universalism that transcended all boundaries:



“Ayam nijah paroveti ganana laghuchetasam
Udaracharitanam tu vasudhaiva kutumbakam”

“This is my countryman; that is a foreigner—such a view is entertained only by small-minded people; but to the broad, noble-minded, the whole world is one family