Spirituality is not renouncing the world; it is transforming the world. Spirituality does not mean poverty, spirituality means you are inwardly rich and every effort should be made so that you are outwardly also rich, because there is no contradiction.
There is no need to go to the Himalayas and sit in a cave to meditate when in your house you can make a small air-conditioned cabin, soundproof, which will be far better than any cave in the Himalayas. In the old days there was no other way to find place where there was no noise, but now you can make it in your home. Every home should have a small meditation cell.
Spirituality does not mean torturing yourself – standing on your head, destroying your body. Leave all that to the magicians. Spirituality simply means tranquility – so deep that you come in contact with universal silence that is running within you. And there is no reason why you should not be rich. Infect, a spiritual person has more intelligence, more creativity; more understanding-he can be the richest person in the world. And his richness will have two dimensions, the inner and the outer.
Outer richness does not destroy your inner spirituality; neither does outer poverty help it. A hungry man cannot sit silently. S naked man shivering in the cold cannot sit silently. And even if you are surrounded by beggars, then too you cannot sit silently. You have a heart…
I would like this world to be rich in both ways. And when we can have the world rich in both ways, why choose one?
Once in a while on this Earth there arises a soul who, by living his tradition rightly and wholly, perfects his path and becomes a light to the world. Swamyshiva was such a being, a living example of awakening and wisdom.
