According to Osho, this country’s poverty springs from a centuries-old, anti-life, anti-body mindset that glorifies renunciation and worships poverty as spiritual. By praising the “other world,” people neglected this one—its beauty, work, cleanliness, and creation of wealth. The land is rich; the mind is poor. Transform the mind—love life and the body—and creative energies will build richness instead of perpetuating destitution.
People were taught that being poor is holy and this world doesn’t matter, so they stopped caring to make life better.