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SEEMS TO BE THE OPPOSITE OF THE TRADITIONAL INDIAN SWAMI....
A: It is, it is.
Q: .... RENOUNCE THIS WATCH.
A: It is because I am absolutely opposite the Indian ancient tradition, I am against it and I want it to be completely dead. It has destroyed the country.
Those people who renounce the world are the people who have kept the country poor because in their renunciation the country could not develop science, technology. It is such a vast country, small countries have been invading it and defeating it.
For two thousand years it has remained a slave to anybody.
Who is responsible for this slavery, this poverty? If you make people's mind against the world you are making their mind against all progress.
Q: SO YOU WOULD HAVE NO TIME FOR PEOPLE LIKE GANDHI, OR....
A: No place.
Q: HOW ABOUT SWAMI VIVEKANAND?
A: No.
Q: RABINDRANATH TAGORE?
A: Rabindranath Tagore is a different person. I love him. And he was never in agreement with Mahatma Gandhi.
Q: SO WHAT WOULD YOU BLAME, HINDUISM, FEUDALISM?
A: All the religions, all the religions in India, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Mohammedism, Christianity... they all have done simply destructive acts against this land and its people and they are still doing it.
Q: BECAUSE THEY TEACH PASSIVITY AND RENUNCIATION, THAT YOU ARE PLACID AND RENOUNCE THE MATERIAL WORLD?
A: First they are all against materialism, that creates an schizophrenic mind because you are not just spirit. You are as much matter as you are spirit. To me matter and spirit are not two things. Matter is visible, spirit is, spirit is invisible matter.
We have to drop that dichotomy between matter and spirit. All dualities are dangerous because then either you become a spiritualist against materialism or you become a materialist against spiritualism -- in both the ways you remain half.
So the East remains poor as far as materialism is concerned and the West remains poor as far as spiritualism is concerned. But both are poor. While both could have been rich. Just the division has to be dropped.
So the first thing: renunciation of the world
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