--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All from December 1, 2005: > > > > Maharishi: "How do you smash poverty? You take poverty to the extreme > level, where there is absolutely nothing. And you have smashed poverty. And > when there is absolutely nothing, you find absolutely everything. And that > is real richness. > > > > "Real richness is real richness. Underline this thing a thousand times. > Real richness is not in the countable wealth -- million, billion, trillion, > and whatever -- it's not in terms of wealth. In terms of the source of all > wealth. Source of infinite wealth. > > > > "That you desire and the thing is there. You wish -- the thing is there. > That is real wealthy. And to this class we want to raise the poor. > > > > ..."It's not concerned with countable coins and wealth, but it is in terms > of that affluence which is a field of all possibilities. All wealth is an > aspect of it. > > > > "But wealth is not -- alone -- total life. There is power. There is power. > And there is knowledge. And there is bliss. > > > > ..."Our poverty removal is -- removal of anything that may not be totality. > Removal of anything that is not totality. And that is one's own > self-sufficiency. One's own consciousness. One's own consciousness. And > that is predominantly a matter of attention. Attention. > > > > ..."We have the program of poverty removal, and this is in terms of the > worldly understanding of it. But when we know from where we are functioning > for these, and where we want to take our people, we want to take our people > -- not to a wealth which can be minimized, or which can be stolen away, or > which can be a cause of pains and tears. But a level where bliss is moving, > where the waves are the waves of bliss." > > ..... > > > > "Dreaming state of consciousness is -- something is seen in terms of > something else. There is a tree, and you see it like a lion jumping on you. > This is dream. sp; Something is seen as something else. > > > > "God Consciousness is also: something seen in terms of something else. You > see a mango tree, and you see Krishna is there, and you see this Vishnu is > there. Something seen in terms of something else. That is God > Consciousness. > > > > "God Consciousness. Something seen as something else. You see something, > but you see God in it. You see something -- God in it." > > ..... > > > > "Poverty means a man is poor. That means he has less money. Now when we > want him to have more money, our program is to completely deprive him of > anything that even he has now. And that we say -- that is our program to > eliminate poverty. > > > > "He has some money -- he is poor. Now we want him to have more money. The > program is: To deprive him for whatever he has -- take him to a vacuum > state. Take him to the hollowness. To nothingness. To abstraction. To > unmanifest. And show -- prove to him that he has everything. > > > > "He got everything. In one sense we take him to nothingness. And in the > same sense, miraculously, we put him to deprivation of nothingness." >
I love everything he says here. But why, then, does he come up with silly poverty programs like the $10 trillion organic food growing scheme? Am I missing something? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
