Economic Revolution

Thinkers like Karl Marx ruffled the flag of economic freedom in the world and declared that poverty should be eliminated. Marx called upon the workers of the world to unite. However, he overlooked the basic fact that for any revolution to be successful, the human mind needs to be transformed.

The Socialist system considered the state supreme and crushed the human being by the fear of punishment of one kind or another. Individual freedom suffered in the process, the state became the owner of all wealth, and the problem of incentive remained unsolved.

On the other hand, the Capitalist system gives the individual, supreme importance. The unfettered materialistic enjoyments possible in that system have also 'killed' the human being, albeit in a different manner. A lack of limits on an individual's economic freedom has led to ills of all kinds, such as uncontrolled materialist enjoyments, the concentration of wealth in the hands of a select few, and the denigration of basic human values. The individual has been considered the absolute owner of all wealth. An economic system of this nature is a natural breeding ground for cut-throat competition and class wars.

Rev. Dadaji has accepted the concept of individual ownership of wealth. However he has introduced a novel revolutionary corollary to this notion. An individual can offer his efficiency to God out of devotion ("bhakti") and gratitude ("krutagnata") to God, and as a result, he can generate impersonal wealth. This wealth does not belong to any individual or to society at large. In fact, it belongs to God!  With that philosophical underpinning, Dadaji has successfully demonstrated successful new socio-economic experiments such as Vriksha Mandir, Matsya Gandha, Yogeshwar Krushi , and Amrutalayam in thousands of communities . This has resulted in an impersonal wealth which does not have stamp of any one individual's efforts or destiny.

This wealth has been used to help needy members of the community or those stuck by some calamity, but strictly as the benefaction ("prasaad") of God. This wealth (Mahalakshmi ) is no ordinary wealth; rather it belongs to only the Lord. This economic revolution has resulted in the eradication of economic inequality and poverty in thousands of Swadhyayee communities, making them self-sufficient examples of economic transformation on a grand scale.