A Missionary and a Poor Indian Guy

Considering all the recent findings I've pasted regarding what Physics is saying about the nature of reality, I recall a video I watched here in America that a missionary made mocking the followers of Sanatana Dharma, he was trying to show how pathetic their lives were who lived in Poverty and who prayed to the "false gods".

In that show one particular scene where they were interviewing a guy on his way to Kasi (varanasi):

Missionary to the poor guy: So why have you left everything at a young age and living in poverty are you going to varanasi? why not live a good life.

The poor guy: I am going in search of God. I've left everything because this life is an illusion. Everything we yearn for is an illusion.

The scene gets cut, implying how foolish, funny and disheveled these poor Indians praying to false gods are.

Considering two things:

  1. From the Documentary "Happy :)" on netflix. (http://www.thehappymovie.com/): 
    1. It is evident that happiness doesn't lie in material comfort. the poorsest of slum dwellers in Kolkotta, is as happy as an average American.
  2. From the other posts of mine and the ocean of literature found in physics on the nature of reality:
    1. The world is an illusion.

Question: Who is the joke on now? Who is disheveled now? Who is living foolishly now?

Think.


Note: This is not to say, there are no good missionaries out there who truly from the bottom of their heart want to help people. I have the greatest of respect and reverence for them. One of them being Mother Teresa. Just like the fake guru's of India, too many  "missionaries" prowling in the world. The true saints in all religions as far as I've seen are far and in between. Almost everyone else usually has an agenda of profitability or some foolish end, like increasing their numbers just because a book says so.

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