Revival of the Commonwealth - 08.18.09

“The very idea of private property is a fairly recent one.” At one time, whether it was Native American tribes or even the commonwealths of England, property was distributed amongst the people. But, as Shunyamurti, the director of the Sat Yoga Institute, reminds us, “Now we have a situation where one percent of the population owns about 90 percent of the property of the world, and everyone is deprived of it. And this is why you have revolutions and terrorism and all of that. There is a basic unfairness in the way that the goods of the universe are distributed today because of greed; it has absolutely corrupted the minds of people.” Recorded on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 18, 2009.