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The Parliament of World Peace offers Maharishi's Poverty Removal Program to the field of Economy (part 2)

Parliament of World Peace    Translate This Article
Lake Shandelee, New York, United States
7 August 2004

Eradicating Poverty Without Having to Deplete the National Treasury

This whole concept of eradicating poverty without using any national currency has a great intellectual appeal; it will be practically demonstrated during the first three years of the project.

The land is there with its fertility; the people are there with their intelligence and creativity; the intention of the government is there to eradicate poverty; and expertise is there with us to fulfill the intention of the government without using the financial resources of the government, and without exposing the government treasury to the pressure and obligation of foreign currency loans.

As the project develops successfully, it will be tempting to develop other unused lands, and start other new projects, and completely eliminate poverty in the country.

Principles Upon Which the Poverty Removal Program Is Based

1. Start the program by first eradicating poverty; that means give the poor good housing and comfortable living from the very beginning of the program.

2. Reduce the working hours of the poor, giving them more time for spiritual or religious pursuits, according to their cultural heritage.

3. Educate the poor to increase their productivity so that they earn more while working fewer hours a day, and guide them to produce export-oriented products for maximum profit.

We will also organize the supply of air-conditioned tractors in order to reduce the fatigue of farming. This will give us the joy of alleviating poverty right from the beginning of the project. It is our joy to state that our program to eliminate poverty will be fulfilled at the start of the project, unlike any other project for which one has to wait for fulfillment until the project comes to an end.

The Poverty Removal Program is so beautifully designed that everyone who participates will obtain increasing profit year after year. Only, in the beginning, the project needs financial support to get started, and the global development currency, the Raam, supplies that need.

Alternatively, investors may like to provide start up funds, and take advantage of a large-scale, long-lasting business opportunity.

Glorifying the Nation with the Profits from the Project

Our program to eliminate poverty should also start to improve every area of national life. This will be financed by 25% of the profit of the project, year after year, starting after the third year.

Every aspect of poverty in the country will start to be eliminated in the following way:

- Construction of the most modern administrative buildings equipped with the latest electronic and computer technology equipment for ideal administration, so that fast communication and complete up-to-date information is available whenever desired, with the touch of a button, to the Head of State and his ministers, governors, and local officers.

These national, provincial and local administrative buildings will be built of marble or the finest materials available in the country, so that the grand dignity of the government buildings will be a joy for all times for the whole population, and will express the dignity and sovereignty of the nation.

- Enhancing the dignity of all educational buildings--universities, colleges, and schools--which will be purposefully enjoyed by every generation, and which will be built in the midst of beautiful gardens, fountains, lakes, and playgrounds.

- In every city there will be beautiful festival halls, exhibition halls, exhibition grounds, museums, sport stadiums, and all buildings and monuments that purposefully display the dignity of national life and glorify the culture of the country. These buildings will celebrate the memory of the great leaders of the nation. The whole country will be a country of gardens that display the affluence and dignity of national life.

- In addition to the glorification of administrative and educational buildings in the country, it will be possible to increase the salary of government officers. All such programs come within the range of our program to eliminate poverty.

Healthy Food, Healthy Nation, Freedom, and Independence

Some countries have learned to live on charity; and this is acceptable to their governments, but their people continue to be poor. Those governments have learned not to make an effort to be independent.

Living from charity is not so graceful for human dignity. Charity will never be enough for people to rise above poverty. Bare sustenance is damaging to evolution.

The World Bank (in its report 'Can Africa claim the 21st century?') has stated that people in south-Saharan Africa live less well today than they did in the 1960's and that large influxes of aid in recent decades have done little to improve conditions.

Our program to eliminate poverty will help governments rise above foreign dependence and gracefully stand on their own feet. This is the time when the spirit of freedom is rising in the world, when every country wants to enjoy freedom from foreign dependence. Developing countries must now rise and change their economy so they maintain their sovereignty and freedom from encroachment of foreign influences. Receiving aid from wealthy countries contrasts with the rising spirit of freedom.

The receiver of aid must naturally feel obliged to the donor. In this natural obligation of the receiving country some advantage goes to the donor country, either in the political, religious or economic field. Receiving aid is no fault; only that it stifles the country's initiative to work and renders its creativity lethargic.

This is no fault on the part of donors, but the governments receiving the donations now have a chance to eliminate poverty and participate in the promotion of organic agriculture on their lands. We invite them to allocate the lands for organic agriculture and give them to us to manage. Within 2, 3, or 4 years they will find that they have risen above the poverty level.

Those giving aid will feel fulfilled that so many years of aid have brought self-sufficiency and self reliance to the country through our program to eliminate poverty.

Fulfilling the Need of the Wealthy through the Poverty Removal Program

The program to eliminate poverty also brings fulfillment to the need of the wealthy. The need of the wealthy is for better health, a more creative mind, and compassionate behavior. The Poverty Removal Program will provide them with healthy food, which combined with proper metabolism, will give them greater creativity and make their behavior more evolutionary according to Natural Law. This will spontaneously unfold the Cosmic Potential of their individual life.

This organic agriculture project will provide the wealthy with nectar, because at present they are eating poisonous food. Therefore, this project is as necessary for the wealthy as it is for the poor.

By participating in this program, the wealthy, who are really the creative people in the world, will finance their own well-being; they will have ideal healthy food to support their continued well-being and progress.

This project will prove to be a grand charity for the poor and a grand business for the wealthy. The poor will lose their poverty; the wealthy will gain wealth and health.

When any nation implements the poverty removal program, the government will be delighted to see the prosperity of the nation dramatically rising, government deficits falling, and international debts being retired. The nation will blossom in full sovereignty and self-sufficiency. With the population satisfied and fulfilled economically a lasting basis for national peace will be achieved. With increased coherence in national consciousness, the population will not make mistakes and create problems. The government will find problems simply not arising in national life. This will mean the government has achieved a new level of efficiency in administration, and fulfilled the ideal for every government—a prevention-oriented and problem-free administration

When any nation implements the poverty removal program, the government will be delighted to see the prosperity of the nation dramatically rising, government deficits falling, and international debts being retired. The nation will blossom in full sovereignty and self-sufficiency. With the population satisfied and fulfilled economically a lasting basis for national peace will be achieved. With increased coherence in national consciousness, the population will not make mistakes and create problems. The government will find problems simply not arising in national life. This will mean the government has achieved a new level of efficiency in administration, and fulfilled the ideal for every government—a prevention-oriented and problem-free administration

Copyright 2004 Maharishi Parliament of World Peace



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