Citing adherents from “the Pacific Islands to Port of Spain, from Vladivostock to Vancouver” and other alliterative locations around the world, he spoke of yoga as the “exemplary manifestation of vasudhaiva kutumbakam, ‘the world is one family.'” Vasudhaiva kutumbakam is not any ordinary descriptive phrase; it also serves as an orienting principle for Indian foreign policy. Rooted in a Sanskrit saying, the notion that the “world is one family” both celebrates India's idea of itself as a unique civilization with much to offer and captures its desire to keeps itself outside of alliance blocs, while maintaining ties with all.
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