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should be very grateful that it manifested in them in spite of
the sordidness of the house they gave it.
CWM 4: 402

Q: Sri Aurobindo says here about Mahalakshmi: All that is
poor...repels her advent” ?

Yes, poor, without generosity, without ardour, without ampli-
tude, without inner richness; all that is dry, cold, coiled up,
prevents the coming of Mahalakshmi. It is not a question of
big money, you know! An extremely rich man may be terribly
poor from Mahalakshmi’s point of view. And a very poor man
may be very rich if his heart is generous. ...
A poor man is a man having no qualities, no force, no
strength, no generosity. He is also a miserable, unhappy man.
Moreover, one is unhappy only when one is not generous—if
one has a generous nature which gives of itself without reck-
oning, one is never unhappy. It is those who are coiled up
on themselves and who always want to draw things towards
themselves, who see things and the world only through them-
selves—it is these who are unhappy. But when one gives oneself
generously, without reckoning, one is never unhappy, never. It
is he who wants to take who is unhappy; he who gives himself
is never so.
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