Who is telling them to go on producing children – and each child makes them more poor. The poor people of the world are responsible for their poverty. If you cannot create it, you simply show that you don’t have intelligence enough. He is the poorest of the poor, because money is such a mundane thing. Yes, one of the dimensions of poverty is a man who cannot even produce money. A certain sensitivity is absolutely needed, a certain vision is needed.Ī poor man is one whose mind is retarded – he may have immense wealth that does not matter – who cannot understand classical music, who cannot understand poetry, who cannot understand philosophy, who cannot understand the high flights of human spirit. Only a rich being can have some connection with me. So when I accepted the definition, my meaning was richness in any dimension. But still, he creates something which is valuable, utilitarian, and the world would be better if there were many more Henry Fords.
It cannot be compared to Mozart’s music or Nijinsky’s dance, or Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy. His talents should be respected, although what he creates is mundane. According to me the man of wealth is also a creative artist: he creates wealth. The man of wealth is only one of the dimensions. To me the rich man is one who has sensitivity, creativity, receptivity. A musician may not be rich, but as far as his music is concerned, no wealth is richer than his music. A poet may be poor, but he has a sensitivity that no money can purchase.
Richness does not mean only wealth or money richness is a multidimensional phenomenon. They were saying it to be derogatory, but my meaning is totally different.Ī Vincent van Gogh is far more rich than Henry Ford. I simply accepted it with my own meanings. It is the yellow journalism, which dominates the mind of the masses around the world, which came up with the definition. The first thing to be understood: I have not defined myself as the rich man’s guru. Don’t the other people interest you? Are the rich particularly in need of a guru? Or are you their guru because they have money? Q: You have defined yourself as the rich man’s guru.