People with petty minds divide the world: Bhagwat

November 05, 2015 22:51

Amid a debate on intolerance in the country, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat today said people with petty minds divide the society through language, colour or creed and called for making the world one family.

He said that the diversity of India was its strength and "we consider it as an issue of celebration rather than a problem that the outsiders consider".

"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 was delivering a lecture on "National Building Through Inter-Faith Harmony in the Spirit of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam at the birth centenary celebrations of Swami Chinmayananda of Chinmay Mission at Siri Fort, New Delhi.

He said whatever one has has to be distributed to all and India has to show the path forward in achieving that the world is one family.

"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 said.

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