Core Insight:
According to Osho, India’s poverty stems from idealizing renunciation: after Buddha and Mahavira, poverty was equated with holiness, so the masses accepted deprivation as blessed. Yet only voluntary poverty—chosen after abundance—can yield ‘richness’: inner freedom, peace, and dignity beyond anxiety. Compulsory, inherited poverty is misery; conscious simplicity after fulfillment creates authentic wealth of being, not social destitution.