From: sucetas mon (sucetas@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Dec 02 2000 - 13:55:48 PST
From: "sucetas mon" <sucetas@hotmail.com> Subject: THE MOTHER, by Sri Aurobindo (Chapter 4, of 6) Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 21:55:48 -0000 Message-ID: <F43R6sKBEr8pkpLkTgb00002e53@hotmail.com>
Om Amrtesvaryai Namah
'The Mother'. Chpt.4:
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. This is indeed one of the three forces - power, wealth, sex - that
have the strongest attraction for the human ego and the Asura and are most
generally misheld and misused by those who retain them. The seekers and
keepers 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. 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.
In your personal use of money look on all you have or get or bring as the
Mother's. make no demand but accept what you receive from her and use it for
the purposes for which it is given to you. Be entirely selfles, entirely
scrupulous, exact, careful in detail, a good trustee; always consider that
it is her possessions and not your own that you are handling. On the other
hand, what you receive for her, lay religiously before her; turn nothing to
your own or anybody else's purpose.
Do not look up to men because of their riches or allow yourself to be
impressed by the show, the power or the influence. When you ask for the
Mother, you must feel that it is she who is demanding through you a very
little of what belongs to her and the man from whom you ask will be judged
by his response.
If you are free from the money-taint but without any ascetic withdrawal, you
will have a greater power to command the money 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.
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 the 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.
In Amma's Love,
~sucetas~
OM LOKAH SAMASTAH SUKHINO BHAVANTU
OM SHANTI SHANTI SHANTIH
OM SRI GURUBHYO NAMAH HARIH OM
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