Nothing new ever happens in Universe which is not told in Eastern Scriptures.
Chapter
Who created poverty?
Poverty
is not natural.
It is not just one
person, but many.
Every society has
enough resources and wealth for their citizen to live in comfort. But many
countries have very large population of poor. This is true of several countries
that were colonized by aggressors. The reason for poverty can be traced to:
(1) In the distance past, the alien rulers cornered the nation’s wealth
and siphoned-off to their own
country.
(2) After independence, it is the tiny Elite population
in the country that controls the money (both directly and indirectly). They corner
the nation’s wealth for themselves and siphon it off to other
economic destinations. (The Stock markets like institutions, P Note types
of instruments and Hawala Trading like practices, helped them).
(3) One of the
important responsibility of the democratic Government is to distribute the nation’s
wealth among the citizen, equitably. Economic theories suggest an
80:20 Formula.
This mean, nation’s 80 wealth is owned by 20% of the
citizen (Elite) and the remaining 20% of the wealth owned by 80%
of the population
(Common man). This is because,
every citizen contributes to creating wealth.
The countries that
colonised other societies shared the wealth through the 80: 20 formulae in their native society But the
citizen of the colonies were not
eligible for a share in the wealth of their own nation. They can at best, work
and earn wages as and when the work
is available.
The independent and
self-rule should have brought the change. But the
situation did not change after the colonized societies became independent.
The new rulers
elected from among by natives continue use every governing processes and machinery that alien rulers used. Most painful of them is the economic policies
that were followed by aggressors.
Accordingly, the
wealth of the nation continues to be shared between elite and wages
for labour was left for common man,
or the citizen.
Leaders Promised Prosperity
Bulk of the Indians are and were poor from over
1000 years of alien rule. During the last two hundred years, the poor in India
has become poorer than ever before. That is when the British change traditional
economy to controlled economy.
In controlled economy market was open to alien nations.
That is what British did to stave and weaken the natives. This helped them
siphon the wealth out of their colonies.
Elite within the society had a share the wealth with
the alien rulers.
The poor, the impoverished, cannot learn & think.
Poverty, corruption and very low levels of Knowledge (lack-of
ability to Learn & Think)
are interconnected.
Leaders - Elite - Prospered
During
the independence struggle, the
leaders exhorted the poor, the common man, to take part in Independence
struggle.
The
leaders promise the poor
that, after independence, every one of them will live like kings!
There
were the Elites
standing by British. when common man fought for freedom.
But,
alas, after Independence
the fruits of freedom were shared between Leaders & Elite. Nothing changed on ground, for the poor.
The common man had to depend of Cooly or Wages!
The
poor continues to become
poorer year after year.
This has a parallel
to an episode in the distant past and found in many Puranas and the epic Maha bharatha.
Churning the Ocean of Milk
(Demigods & demons churning Ocean of Milk for extracting
Amrit)!
The puranas as
described as a celestial event follows. This has several parallels to
earthly events.
The Demigods realized
that they cannot churn the ocean of milk to obtain Amrit (Nectar) by their efforts alone. They 
needed the demons to join their effort to
succeed.
The demigods promised
a share of the Amrit to demons. After the Amrit was churned-out they did not want to share it with them as promised.
Amrit was finally
consumed by demigods only.
It is not clear what
was the intention of the author in
telling this story in a celebrated scripture. Most political leaders who run
the counties have taken a lesson from it.
The lesson is, you
can Break a Promise after the job is done.
In any society, there
are two groups of people. (1) Rich and powerful called elite comparable
to Demigods in the celestial
world and (2) the poor and Powerless known as Common
man comparable to demons in the celestial world.
While in celestial world
the issue was Amrit (Nectar) economic
wellbeing in our own world.
On the average, every citizen is creating a wealth equivalent to Rs 100,000 per year.
(An economic report
in internet quantifies as how the nation’s wealth gets distributed among Indian
citizen: There are 84 billionaires in India, and they own a
wealth of $248 billion, collectively.
It can be seen from various economic reports the fact
that a mere 56 people in India own wealth as much as what 70% of common man own today.
This gap is widening year after year.
(This Accounts for
one twelfth of India’s wealth)
(4) Every one (Except the men-of-knowledge) keep chasing money. Some use legal and illegal ways
to get money. (Note: Not that all
the legal ways are fair and just).
Everyone is successful in grabbing money to different
extents. It is like a Marathon run. Several people run but Very few
reach their goal.
Most people drop-off along the way at various points.
Marathon run is a matter of Physical endurance. In the marathon
run chasing money, success is a matter of Mind, governed by learning abilities and thinking skills.
(Read
the e-book titled, Knowledge. Go, get
it).
Who would blink first?
There are two situations when poverty will go!
1.
The poor might blink first. Struggle for survival,
the defective education and painful life will enhance the ability to learn and
think though slowly.
Further they would be guided
by lower middleclass people who have higher levels of knowledge but
living in economic condition bordering poverty.
2.
The
elite might blink first.
Elite corner the Money, by
overt and covert means, not because they need it but because, they can. They
merely take away the power of others to buy the products to live in comfort.
The Maya make them
commit the sin of preventing the access of money that they
deserve.
Neither the Elite need so
much of money not can spend them enhance their life or comforts.
If they think that they
leave it for their children they are wrong. Scripture tell you that there is
nothing or none called I and Mine.
Elite merely steal from millions of their own
countrymen to pass it on to a few whom he thinks that they are his own.
This is nothing but a sin.
The idea of children,
relatives, friends are illusions created by Maya.
The Spiritually elevated
people tell you that every life is on an eternal journey and are not connected
with each other.
When elite realises the folly,
and stop cornering the wealth the nation, poverty will vanish.
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