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Attitude Towards Money

Money is the visible sign of a universal force, and this force in its
manifestation on earth works on the vital and physical planes and
is indispensable to the fullness of the outer life. In its origin and
its true action it belongs to the Divine. But like other powers of
the Divine it is delegated here and in the ignorance of the lower
Nature can be usurped for the uses of the ego or held by Asuric
influences and perverted to their purpose. …The seekers or keep-
ers of wealth are more often possessed rather than its possessors;
few escape entirely a certain distorting influence stamped on it by
its long seizure and perversion by the Asura. For this reason most
spiritual disciplines insist on a complete self-control, detachment
and renunciation of all bondage to wealth and of all personal and
egoistic desire for its possession. Some even put a ban on money
and riches and proclaim poverty and bareness of life as the only
spiritual condition. But this is an error; it leaves the power in the
hands of the hostile forces. To reconquer it for the Divine to whom
it belongs and use it divinely for the divine life is the supramental
way for the Sadhaka.
You must neither turn with an ascetic shrinking from the
money power, the means it gives and the objects it brings, nor
cherish a rajasic attachment to them or a spirit of enslaving self-
indulgence in their gratifications. Regard wealth simply as a power
to be won back for the Mother and placed at her service.
All wealth belongs to the Divine and those who hold it are
trustees, not possessors.
CWSA 32: 10 Sri Aurobindo

The force of Wealth
Wealth is a force — I have already told you this once — a force
of Nature; and it should be a means of circulation, a power in

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