It is to the Divine that all riches belong. It is the Divine who lends them to living beings, and it is to Him that they must naturally return.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol.15, p48
Money is not meant to make money, money is meant to make the earth ready for the advent of the new creation.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol.15, p48
A day shall come when all the wealth of this world, freed at last from the enslavement to the anti divine forces, offers itself spontaneously and fully to the service of the Divine’s Work upon earth.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol.15, p49
People say, “God is the friend of the poor”, but it seems wrong and false. God is the friend of the rich. We do not know what place we have.
To the rich God gives money, but to the poor He gives Himself. All depends on the poor giving more value to the riches or to God.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol.15, pp31-32
The more money we have, the more we need…
The more money one has the more one is in a state of calamity, my child. Yes, it is a calamity.
The Mother – Questions and Answers: CWM, Vol. 7, p54
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….. 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.
Sri Aurobindo– The Mother: CWSA Vol. 32, p10
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 movement, as flowing water is a power in movement. It is something which can serve to produce, to organise. It is a convenient means, because in fact it is only a means of making things circulate fully and freely.
The Mother – Questions and Answers: CWM, Vol. 7, p55
How can one know if one’s way of using money is in accordance with the Divine Will?
One must first know what the divine will is. But there is a surer way—to surrender money for the divine work, if one is not sure oneself. “Divinely” means at the service of the Divine—it means not to use money for one’s own satisfaction but to place it at the Divine’s service.
The Mother – Questions and Answers: CWM, Vol.4, p374
The true attitude is this: money is a universal force meant to do the work on earth, the work needed to prepare the earth to receive the divine forces and manifest them, and it must come into the hands (the utilizing power, that is) of those who have the clearest vision, the most general and truest vision.
The Mother – Agenda: Vol. 9, p102
The true fortune is to spend in the right way.
You become truly rich when you dispose of your wealth in the best possible way.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol.15, p49
Money is not meant to generate money; money should generate an increase in production, an improvement in the conditions of life and a progress in human consciousness. This is its true use. What I call an improvement in consciousness, a progress in consciousness, is everything that education in all its forms can provide—not as it’s generally understood, but as we understand it here: education in art, education in … from the education of the body, from the most material progress, to the spiritual education and progress through yoga; the whole spectrum, everything that leads humanity towards its future realization. Money should serve to augment that and to augment the material base for the earth’s progress, the best use of what the earth can give—its intelligent utilization, not the utilization that wastes and loses energies. The use that allows energies to be replenished.
The Mother – Agenda: Vol.1, p204
Give all you are, all you have; nothing more is asked of you but also nothing less.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol.15, p49
You are rich only by the money that you give to the Divine Cause.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol.15, p49
To me any activity is more important than its cost to me, even if the cost is unreasonable. Money should never be the criterion for such decisions. If we say we can’t have something because of its cost, we limit our receptivity to the Grace and hamper its workings. Money is only a medium of exchange, it is all relative and the Divine resources are inexhaustible. Is this attitude a correct one?
You are quite right and I approve of your attitude.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol.15, p50
Money is a force and should not be an individual possession, no more than air, water or fire.
To begin with, the abolishment of inheritance.
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Financial power is the materialization of a vital force turned into one of the greatest powers of action: the power to attract acquire, and utilize.
Like all the other powers, it must be put at the service of the Divine.
The Mother – Agenda: Vol.1, p206
Behind all false movements, there is a true one: there is a joy in being able to direct, utilize, organize things so as to keep wastage to a minimum while having a maximum of results. (That’s a very interesting vision to have.) And that must be the true side in those who want to amass: a capacity of utilization on a very large scale.
The Mother – Agenda: Vol. 9, p103
All wealth belongs to the Divine and those who hold it are trustees, not possessors. It is with them today, tomorrow it may be elsewhere. All depends on the way they discharge their trust while it is with them, in what spirit, with what consciousness in their use of it, to what purpose.
Sri Aurobindo – The Mother: CWSA, Vol. 32, p10
If you are free from the money-taint but without any ascetic withdrawal, you will have a greater power to command the money-force for the divine work. Equality of mind, absence of demand and the full dedication of all you possess and receive and all your power of acquisition to the Divine Shakti and her work are the signs of this freedom. Any perturbation of mind with regard to money and its use, any claim, any grudging is a sure index of some imperfection or bondage.
Sri Aurobindo – The Mother: CWSA, Vol. 32, p11
The ideal Sadhaka in this kind is one who if required to live poorly can so live and no sense of want will affect him or interfere with the full inner play of the divine consciousness, and if he is required to live richly, can so live and never for a moment fall into desire or attachment to his wealth or to the things that he uses or servitude to self-indulgence or a weak bondage to the habits that the possession of riches creates. The divine Will is all for him and the divine Ananda.
In the supramental creation the money-force has to be restored to the Divine Power and used for a true and beautiful and harmonious equipment and ordering of a new divinised vital and physical existence in whatever way the Divine Mother herself decides in her creative vision. But first it must be conquered back for her and those will be strongest for the conquest who are in this part of their nature strong and large and free from ego and surrendered without any claim or withholding or hesitation, pure and powerful channels for the Supreme Puissance.
Sri Aurobindo – The Mother: CWSA, Vol.11, p10
