Yes, very true. I have often been frustrated sometimes at the disparity of yogic practices between rich and poor. When I used to read Deepak Chopra, I would often want to invite him to live with me for a day in the place that I live and see how easy it is to go around forgiving and loving everything. But I suppose for us poor folk that makes it all the more challenging.
Interesting note about escapism, though. Yoga and most all Eastern ways always seem escapist on the surface with their passivity and detachment, however, you must wonder what it is you're escaping. The poor could "escape" a limited view of reality that is material deprivation, pollution, crime, etc...but nevertheless, a subjective reality. The rich could do the same with abundant finances, material posessions...which I imagine sometimes to the rich person can almost seem smothering. It is bothways still a view of reality through the individual and not the whole.
