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The Indian people chose the second route or the one of peace. It is definite that a poor man cannot choose the best path. A poor man cannot choose the path of restraint and renunciation. When poverty itself cannot be eradicated then how can man talk of big things? Only the man who has reached the peak of prosperity and wealth can talk of them. When after reaching there he finds nothing meaningful then he looks for another route. One cannot expect this from a poor man.
Today's Indian has once again become poor. If today we hope that he will have high moral values, will be honest, will be spiritual, will be logical, then we are wrong in wishing so. In this possibility there are many problems. These difficulties are not so for those who have reached the pinnacle of prosperity.
As quickly as a westerner can become spiritual, gets drawn towards meditation, an Indian does not. The reason is very simple. The westerners have understood the world of materialism. They have been ruled by consumerism and have touched its peak and there they have realized that the road ahead is closed. This is the reason why they get drawn very easily into spirituality and choose a new path. How
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