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Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita says: "He who is happy in poverty and free from things of earthly desire--him I call a rishee, an illuminated one." Contrast this to the rejection of poverty by American mysticism, whose "illuminates" would be unhappy in it and who regard it as a sign of not yet having reached illumination.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 8 : Christian Science, Other Spiritual Movements > # 86