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‘Bharat’s destiny is to make world realise unity in diversity’: Bhagwat at New York event
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In an apparent articulation of the RSS ’s worldview for an American audience, Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday said Bharat’s “destiny” was to make the world realise that unity could coexist with diversity, and that the country had to demonstrate this “not by preaching, but by practice”.
Invoking Swami Vivekananda, he said every nation had a message to deliver, a mission to accomplish and a destiny to fulfil, and argued that Bharat’s mission was to demonstrate the idea of unity underlying diversity. Addressing around 5,000 people at New York ’s Madison Square Garden, Bhagwat said nations were not merely geographical entities but had a “duty” to perform.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani had said earlier this week that he did not support the RSS event, describing it as part of a movement he said was based on an “exclusionary vision” and questioning its compatibility with the pluralistic and secular India he had grown up with.
Bhagwat said India’s civilisational understanding was that humanity was connected through the atman, like beads woven into a single thread. Addressing the Indian diaspora, Bhagwat also said their first responsibility was towards the US, which he described as their “karmabhoomi”.
“I don’t support the rally, but I don’t know if the city has any jurisdiction on canceling a private event,” Mamdani had said. Bhagwat said the idea of oneness was not merely philosophical but had implications for how human beings treated one another.
Differences of body, clothing and modes of worship, he said, did not alter this underlying unity. It was this understanding, he said, that India’s ancestors had sought to give to the world.
Bhagwat said India’s civilisational tradition did not call for the destruction of enemies. Bhagwat said Indians abroad should live by the values they had received from India.
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- In an apparent articulation of the RSS ’s worldview for an American audience, Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday said Bharat’s “destiny” was to make the world realise that unity could coexist with diversity, and…
- Addressing around 5,000 people at New York ’s Madison Square Garden, Bhagwat said nations were not merely geographical entities but had a “duty” to perform.
- Invoking Swami Vivekananda, he said every nation had a message to deliver, a mission to accomplish and a destiny to fulfil, and argued that Bharat’s mission was to demonstrate the idea of unity underlying diversity.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani had said earlier this week that he did not support the RSS event, describing it as part of a movement he said was based on an “exclusionary vision” and questioning its compatibility with the…
- “I don’t support the rally, but I don’t know if the city has any jurisdiction on canceling a private event,” Mamdani had said.
- Bhagwat said the idea of oneness was not merely philosophical but had implications for how human beings treated one another.
- Bhagwat said India’s civilisational understanding was that humanity was connected through the atman, like beads woven into a single thread.
- Differences of body, clothing and modes of worship, he said, did not alter this underlying unity.
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