History and Background

World Union is a registered society having its headquarters in Pondicherry, India. It was established in the year 1960 with the blessings of the Mother (Mirra Alfassa of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) based on the 3rd Dream (vision) of Sri Aurobindo – "A world-union forming the outer basis of a fairer, brighter and nobler life for all mankind" – primarily inspired by his books - The ideal of human unity and The Human Cycle.

Mission

With this background and legacy, World Union endeavours to foster in all people the Consciousness of Oneness of life and the essential “soul-unity” of humanity.

Its goal is a collective rise in the level of consciousness unifying the human race until soul-based unity becomes the basic consciousness for the whole of humanity.

World Union endeavours to create awareness about the inevitable transformation of human nature through the practice of Integral Yoga, with the aim of unity, mutuality, and harmony.

Since, the individual is a unit of the collective, therefore the individual and collective yoga (union) are so closely interrelated. And, this would change the perspective of how the affairs of the world are conducted and make the world a much betterplace to live in.

For Sri Aurobindo, the evolutionary process of human unity is possible not through rationality, but through yogic experience. This is why Sri Aurobindo thinks that every person is a yogi, but not a conscious one

In fact, the very meaning of the word “Yoga” is “Union” or “to unite” with the universal consciousness. And, the transformation of earth consciousness can truly happen only when more number of individuals become intensely conscious and aspire collectively for a higher unifying consciousness, by raising the standard of human interactions, governed by more love, compassion and a greater sense of oneness with a better perception of our interrelatedness.

Those who have become conscious of this process through the yogic experience can help the others by introducing them to the process of Triple Transformation - Psychicisation, Spiritualisation and Supramentalisation.

WORLD UNION endeavours to foster respect for all life and the practice of understanding, tolerance, active goodwill towards all, from one’s family circle to society, the nation and the world.

Principles

• Unity without Uniformity
• Diversity without Divisiveness
• Uniqueness without Superiority
• Synthesis without Compromise
• Co-existence without Constriction

Philosophy

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have made it clear to us that the crisis that faces humanity is not economic or social, but spiritual. Sri Aurobindo has described it as a crisis of consciousness.

Global Unity

The world has been witnessing a plethora of groupings, unions and associations of many a nation-states predominantly based upon socio-economic, political, military and cultural ties and affiliations. However, we often find that many of them either disintegrate or become ineffective over a period of time.

So, as we dig deeper, we often find that what they lack in their association is essentially the aspect of collective spiritual unity, which is all about soul-based human unity and the spirit of oneness in all of us. Hence, this aspect needs to be an integral part of the new world order if the nation-states and the humanity were to come together as one collective unit.

It is high time we start thinking more intensely in terms of this new dimensional unifying consciousness, as then only it will be possible for us to work out the problems pertaining to the realization of World Unity.

Respect and Embrace

• "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam" which means This World is One Family. This verse of Maha Upanishad is also engraved in the entrance hall of the Parliament of India.
• World Union as a charitable society has imbibed the concept of Service to humanity is service to God. It is all-encompassing and respects all religions including the “religion of humanity”.
• Tamil Poem written 2500 years ago by Tamil Poet Kaniyan Pungundranar (Song 192, Purananuru, Sangam literature) யாதும் ஊரே; யாவரும் ரேளிர் (Transliteration: “Yaadhum Oore Yaavarum Kelir”) meaning - “All the places on earth are our town and all the people are our relatives”.

So, World Union, as an organisation, shall endeavour to undertake widespread research to find out and reach out to more such entities across the globe and unite with them to further the ideals of human unity based on the truth of the spirit

Goodwill Ambassadors, Members, Supporters and Volunteers of World Union, through various kinds of social communications, endeavour to awaken and strengthen the sense of oneness and unity, in the faith that it will increasingly become the basic consciousness for the whole of human life.

The Divine Mother (Mira Alfassa) of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, who was the then President of World Union and continues to remain as the permanent President of World Union (in spirit), gave this message as the motto of World Union with her blessings: A world union based on the fact of human unity realizing the truth of the spirit.

World Union is a movement, a wave, a voice, an urge in the world to find its wholeness and harmony. World Union believes that truth lies in “Unity in Diversity”. Hence, Sri Aurobindo said - “Unity without Uniformity”.

It is by feeling the Oneness as the truest reality that diversity can have the joy of infinite possibility.

So, World Union seeks to organize and establish world union centers, institutions, affiliates and organizations in India and across the world for the progressive realization of these objects.

Also, promote publications and distribution of literature and organize conferences and seminars (regional, national and global) or other gatherings in the service of these objects.

The Mother’s message in the first World Conference was
“The future of the earth depends on a change of consciousness…
So, wake up and collaborate.”

Some Question & Answers in the World Conference pertaining to the World Union movement:

WORLD UNION wishes you the very best !

Contact

You may write to WorldUnionHQ@gmail.com should you wish to collaborate with this new-age transformation of consciousness to realize the Spirit of Oneness.