The author who has written the article against me says that I teach people to live an earthly life. Our real saints have never taught that; they have always taught people to renounce the earthly life.
That I know. That's why you are suffering. That's why you are poor – because you have forgotten how to live on this earth! Nobody has taught you how to live on this earth, how to love this earth.
They have all taught you that this earth is ugly, that it is a punishment that you have been sent here, that you are not supposed to enjoy. If you enjoy, you will be sent again. You are supposed to be very sad, detached. You have to renounce all the joys of the earth so next time you don't have to be born, and then you will enjoy heavenly pleasures.
Because these people have been talking too much about the “other world”, they have destroyed this world. I teach you this earth.
This very earth, the paradise. This very body the Buddha.