Upanishads & Folk · Maha Upanishad 6.71
वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्
vasudhaiva kuṭumbakam
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“The world is one family.”
मूल Original
वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्
Sanskrit, in its own script.
उच्चारण How it sounds
vasudhaiva kuṭumbakam
Read it aloud — IAST transliteration.
अर्थ What it means
The world is one family.
A thought about unity.
स्रोत Where it comes from
Maha Upanishad 6.71
The Upanishads' oldest questions, and songs that walked out of villages into history.
Public domain · Ancient / pre-1960 text
When someone asks, “What does your T-shirt say?”
It's from Maha Upanishad 6.71, in Sanskrit. It means: “The world is one family.”
That's the whole idea. One line, and a conversation about something that has mattered for a thousand years.
If this stayed with you