One World Family - Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam

 Love Based World - Gift Economy

 

Many people use this phrase with pride but how many people do understand its real meaning? Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam is a sentence of a Sanskrit Language. Rishi Muni (ancient wise people of India), before more than 1000 years introduced this feeling/thought. This world can have permanent peace and well being only if people understand and live based on this thought and whole social system is formed based on it. How whole world can live as a family, to understand it let’s focus on ideal small family system.

1. In a family everyone is our own : Leaving our small family we don’t consider someone our own in this world. Directly or indirectly from our family and society we are taught not to think someone our own outside our small family. This is mine and that is yours these kinds of discrimination are shown us. Many more other such discriminations are Castism, godism, religionism, Regionism, Nationalism etc. Like, I am Sikh and he is Christian ( Religionism ), I am Shiva worshipper and he is Krishna Worshipper ( Godism ), I am Rajasthani and he is Bengali ( Regionism ), Only my language is the best (Languagism), I am Indian and he is Pakistani ( Rashtravaad – Nationalism ). All this ‘isms’ are manmade and nothing but just an illusion, those who separate us from others. As human beings we are all same. Same red blood flows in body of each human being. Each of us has to eat-drink and sleep. Each of us has to pass through the same birth-death, childhood-Youth-old age and illness. Each of us got same kind of feelings, wisdom and bodily strength. We are all children of same mother earth. Then there is no meaning of discrimination. We will be able to understand the real meaning of Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam only when we will remove the spectacles of those isms from our eyes. Only after that we will move further to make it possible in this world. 

2. In a family, work is distributed by understanding : In a family all necessary tasks are taken cared by understanding of personal ability/skill, interest and requirement of each one. Most of the hard work or Heavy weight lifting works are done by young males of the family, whereas cooking, sweeping kind of works are mostly done by adult females of the family. There will not be any discrimination of superior or inferior work. Work will be interchanged as per need. There won’t be anything like boss and servant. This whole world system also need various kinds of works to be done but in this Socio-Economic System we work just to earn money. That is why we don’t do so many those works which are so much necessary to be done but are not means to earn money.

Many works which are socially and personally useless every way, we still do it if it provides means to earn money. As a result more than 50% people of this world today are engaged in the activity/job/business they really dislike to do it. In reality each of us should do the work which is most necessary for the world and next the work which is based on our ability/skill and interests, more specifically the work which resembles our uniqueness. And based on it the duties of whole world should be taken cared. That is something not happening in present world. In this so much progressed world, most of the people are not aware of own uniqueness, ability/skills, and own interests. Those who know it, most of them do not engage in that work because this commercial system becomes hurdle for them.

3. In a family we do not sell stuff : In a family leaving most personal stuff most of the stuff are for everyone to use it. Nothing is sold internally in family. Have you ever heard like father sold his land or house to his own son? Have you ever heard a spouse asking money from his husband for performing household chorus like cooking, sweeping, washing clothes etc? In a family each work is done with understanding and by shared responsibility and stuff are shared or given as per need. In present world, outside our small family we sell our ability/skill, intelligence and stuff by the means of job or business. We are in a society where each of us has established ownership and we do not give until we are paid the price against it. So many people give stuff just to get fame. If they don’t get fame they will stop giving/serving. The worst result of this system is we see unused stuff at one place and needy suffering at other place for same thing. System running based on money and business creates so many difficulties and we all experience it daily. Even we face it in a small family, like we saw worst results between husband and wife due to dowry for long period of time in India, having base of money/ownership. At present we see 2 brothers get bitter relation and get apart due to money and property. Even in worst case their dispute results in fight and court case. Many commit suicide just because getting overload of debt. Distance between rich and poor we experience on daily basis. The present system based on ownership, money and business have created many number of problems that if we write 1000 pages book will find it not enough. We need to break this present system.

4. Ruling of Love : Ruling can be of 2 types, I) Ruling of love, II) Ruling of fear and Laws. In an Ideal family there is ruling of love. The ruling of fear and laws is spread by polish and government. A person having much money will buy property and to preserve that property hires bouncers/watchmen. That shows us the ruling of laws and fear. Such big land or a property owned by laws, we see many times unused or serving for very few. So many houses and shops we see unused and locked for so many years. In this ruling there is large distance between them and us. In preset Socio-Economic System there is no chance to develop closeness or oneness. So, we can never make Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam possible being in present Socio-Economic System. 

If there is ruling then it should be of love. That is Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam. Ruling of love is automatic which rules on the hearts. It doesn’t run by fear and orders. Each work is done automatically in love. If I consider everyone as my own and everyone consider me their own then there won’t be any distance between me and them. Rather to protect the property from other people on this earth, we can all utilize it such a way that it can make well being of many. We need to demolish this present ruling of laws and fear or we need to transform it into ruling of love. Most of the problems of humanity can be solved by the means of love and understanding. We don’t need laws and fear for it. 

In the limitation and restrictions of present Socio-Economic System, many social organizations and well wisher individuals work to make things better for human life but we don’t see large good results or well being of whole world. Rather situation is getting worst. If we allow this present system to work like this forever we will be the victim of so many worst situations (Kaliyuga) without fail. If we be wise, we can create wellbeing of all (Satyuga). It is up to us. 

To make this world better place, we need to create vasudhaiv Kutumbakam or Love Based World. For that we people of whole world need to live with each other like the way ideal small family live. To create permanent peace and well being of all, to create new better system for this world, many people are working and those people have given names to that new system according to them like, Gift Economy, Resource Based Economy, Sacred Economics, Moneyless World. You will have sufficient information if you search in Google or YouTube by using those names. For more information on this system you can also download free eBooks on this same subject from the web link FreeEbooks. 

Gift Economy transforms 

 

Fear into Love, 

       Stress into Joy, 

                Conditions into Trust, 

                     Competition into Cooperation

and Scarcity into Abundance. 

 

It can make this human society such a wonderful that each person of this world can live good life.