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Namah Vol. 32, Issue 3, 15th October 2024

culture of globalisation that has primarily that the Divine Consciousness is always
been initiated by Western thought, revolves contradicted by the forces of the Inconscience
around money, academic psychology still and hence it is inevitable that the greatest
studies the main currents of psychology in resistance to the right use of wealth arises
terms of libido, power, aggression, behaviour, from the Inconscience. Indeed, at the present
transactions but not directly in terms of time, the true essence of wealth is held ransom
wealth. Money comes in secondarily to by the inconscient forces and needs to be won
substantiate psychological attributes like back for its true worth. Money, “…. is in the
ambition. In the Indian tradition, classical clutch of the hostile forces and is one of the
asceticism shunned wealth but a practical principal means by which they keep their grip
approach considered the pursuit of wealth upon the earth. The hold of the hostile forces
(artha) as important a motivator of life as upon money-power is powerfully, completely
the pursuit of the Dharma (righteous self- and thoroughly organised and to extract
journey), libido (kaama), and the pursuit of anything out of this compact organisation is
liberation (mokssa). Sri Aurobindo presented a most difficult task (9).” These hostile forces
a lucid appraisal of the money-power that is would rather utilise the money to be spent
neither linked to ascetic rejection or wishful on vital desires like libidinal satisfaction,
over-indulgence. Money-power is a vital fame, power and greed for food than to
power that needs to be rightly used in the serve the Truth. “To win money from their
pursuit of personal growth and to serve the hands for the Divine means to fight the
Truth. devil out of them; you have first to conquer
or convert the vital being whom they serve,
The first postulate about wealth is that it and it is not an easy task (10).”
is not meant for an individual possession,
for rationally it belongs to the earth as a The third postulate is that the power of money
whole and metaphysically it belongs to the depends on its circulation to serve the Truth
Divine. It is logical to appreciate that with and not merely commercial interests and
an ever-growing population, money needs certainly not on its hoarding and the tendency
to be distributed in an equitable manner to preserve wealth must be balanced by the
and cannot be allowed to be possessed by a tendency to distribute justifiably and for
handful. That is why the Mother categorically the service of the Higher Consciousness.
explained that inheritance would cease one “This idea that money must make money is a
day. “Money does not belong to anybody.
Money is a collective possession which should
be used only by those who have an integral,
comprehensive and universal vision (7).” The
Mother added, “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 (8).”

The second postulate is based on the fact

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