Does Maitreya believe in government or political systems that man should continue with, or should we have a more spiritual system?
A. He believes in government, but we have to realize that what we call ‘spiritual’ has a much wider connotation than we have given it so far. Until now everything ‘spiritual’ has to do with religion. The Master DK has written that the greatest triumph for the forces of evil on this planet is that the churches, the religious groups around the world, have been allowed to monopolize the concept of spirituality: whatever is religious is spiritual and everything else is non-spiritual and can be as corrupt as we like. Therefore, we have corrupt political and economic structures, corrupt social structures (and also corrupt religious structures: the churches are corrupt, perhaps less so than others, but still corrupt). We have to enlarge our concept of spirituality and see that we must have spiritually-based political and economic structures. That means sharing and justice – these are spiritual aspects. Maitreya says: ‘Sharing is divine. When you share you recognize God in your brother.’ This
