I Am Not a Worshiper of Poverty (Osho and the Rolls Royces)

Osho Poverty and Rolls-Royces:
This is a video excerpt of one of the many responses Osho gave in a series of press interviews.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaPsuB6J8OM

"I am not a worshiper of poverty. That's what those Rolls Royces prove. I respect wealth. Nobody before me has the guts to say it. The pope cannot say that he respects wealth, although he is the wealthiest man on the earth.I am not a hypocrite. I am the poorest man on the earth.
I dont have a single cent with me. But I want to prove to these people that what attracts their mind." - Osho

"I was very amazed by his ninety-odd Rolls-Royces. I think that's perhaps the grandest joke ever played on consumerism and materialism. From what I understand of him and his teachings, he had no particular interest in those cars whatsoever. It was a teaching; it was a modern day analogy to...a modern day equivalent to one of Jesus' parables. He used that as an illustration of how absurd the religion of the dollar, of money and materialism really are."
- Tom Robbins, author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Still Life with Woodpecker and others.