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.
Don’t think being poor is holy; only when you freely choose a simple life after having enough can it feel rich inside—being born poor just hurts.