Poverty

[Guest guest]

"As long as you have poverty, you will have problem with dealing

illicit trafficking in cultural property be it India or elsewhere,"

said Galla, an India-born Australian.

 

I like to expand on this : As long as you have poverty, you will

problem with almost anything : Education, Health, Human rights, and

other social issues.

[Guest guest]

>I like to expand on this : As long as you have

>poverty, you will problem with almost anything :

>education, Health, Human rights, and other social

>issues.

 

I agree. This is so very true. But let us define

poverty. Poverty is not the lack of material wealth. I

have met very many happy and joyous people who have no

material wealth at all. Poverty is the lack of confort

and joy in the soul. Poverty is desperation caused by

wanting things that you cannot have, aspiring to goals

you cannot reach, the belief that others have

opportunities that you do not. We each need to be

content with whatever we have, thanking the Divine for

whatever opportunities she has granted us.

Yet, at the same, time, societies need to be

structured so that everyone has equal opportunities

for gaining the things that are valued in the society.

Everyone needs to be protected from crime. Everyone

wants to feel secure that her/his needs will be met in

old age. Everyone needs to know that her/his children

will be safe and happy.

I live in the United States. This is the richest

and most powerful country in the world, yet every

large city has a slum filled with desperately poor

people. They have no hope for a better life, and many

of them turn to crime. The people who have money live

elsewhere, driving their huge automobiles around their

pretty grassy suburbs, watching their satellite

televisions, never visiting the poor parts of town.

Many have guns to protect themselves in the event that

someone from the poor section of town should stray

into their sections. They all think that this is

normal, that all the world lives like this. Few of the

rich understand that the existance of such poverty

hurts everyone, including the rich.

 

Sister Usha Devi

 

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Sister Usha Devi

Founder, Divinely Female and worshipper of the Sacred Flame that shines inside

every woman