silence shared in words
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Spirituality Is Against All Kind of Poverty
Certainly
I am bound to come in conflict with the old,
because the whole human past
has been praising poverty
and making it equal to spirituality,
which is absolute nonsense.
Spirituality is the greatest richness that can happen to a man,
and it contains all other richnesses.
It is not against any other richness;
it is simply against all kinds of poverty.
So what I have been trying
is something so radical
that it is bound
to create antagonism
all around the world
from every corner.
People have lived
with certain values
for so long
that although those values have given them only misery,
they don't see the connection.
Those values have not made them
fulfilled,
contented
but they don't see the connection.
I want
my people
to become symbolic...
to make the whole world aware
that their misery is caused by their wrong values,
that they are poor
because they have respected poverty
and their behavior is so insane.
On the one hand they will respect poverty,
and on the other hand they will say, "Serve the poor."
Strange! If poverty is so spiritual
then the most spiritual thing will be to make every rich man poor,
to help the rich man to be poor,
so he can become spiritual.
Why help the poor?
Do you want to destroy their spirituality?
But
a deep unconsciousness,
a great blindness
exists;
I am fighting against
a mountainous
unconsciousness, darkness.
Naturally
they will be very much annoyed.
They would have loved me,
they would have worshipped me.
It would have been so easy for me
to do what they wanted,
but then I would have been
continuing
the old misery, the old disease,
the old stupidity.
I decided to be disrespectable
and not to help
any nonsensical
value system.
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