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<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>
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normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
<font size="4">The Value of Money</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>THE more
money one has, the more one falls into a calamity. It is indeed a calamity, my
children.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
is a catastrophe to have money. It makes you stupid, it makes you avaricious,
it makes you wicked. It is one of the biggest calamities in the world. Money
is a thing which one should not possess unless and until he is without desire,
without attachment. When one has a consciousness as wide as the earth, then
only one can have all the money there is upon earth and that would be good for
everybody. But until then as much money as you have, so much the curse there is
upon you. I will tell this to the face of everybody, even to the face of the
man who considers it a merit to be rich. It is a calamity; it is also perhaps a
<i>disgrace, </i>a fall from the Divine Grace, the expression of a Divine
discontent.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
is infinitely more difficult to be rich and also to be wise, intelligent and
generous – to be generous, please note, – when one is rich than when one is
poor. I have seen and known many persons in many countries; the most generous
persons were always the poorest. As soon as the pocket becomes full, you are
seized as if with a malady, a sordid attachment to money. I assure you it is a
malediction.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>So
the first thing to do when one has money is to give it away. But as you should
know, it must not be given without discrimination. Do not give it in the way a
philanthropist does; for that only fills him with the sense of his kindness,
his generosity, his importance. You must do it with a <i>sattwic </i>sense,
that is to say, see where is the best possible use of it. Everyone then has to
find in his own consciousness, the highest consciousness he has, what is the
best possible use of the money one has.</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:141.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>As a matter of fact, 
money has value only so far as it is in circulation. </p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>For each and everyone money has worth only if and when it is spent. Man has
taken care to choose for money a material that does not deteriorate, gold and
silver, for example, but all the same it rots, from the moral point of view, if
it does not circulate. Nowadays paper is used in place of metal, but if you
keep the bundle of paper in your drawer, you will find in course of time all
your hoarding worn out, eaten up. <st1:City><st1:place>Worms</st1:place></st1:City>
and insects would present you with a lace-work that your banks would refuse to
accept!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There
are peoples and religions who say that God makes those poor whom he loves. I do
not know if it is true, but one thing that is true is this that when one is
born rich or when one becomes rich, in any case when one has much, that is to
say, in material wealth, it is certainly not a sign that the Divine has chosen
him for His Grace; he must needs make a good deal of <i>amende honorable </i>if
he is to walk on the straight road, the true path towards the Divine.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Wealth
is a force; it is, I told you once already, a force of Nature. It should be a
means of circulation, a power in movement, even as water that flows is a power
in movement. It is something which serves to produce, to organise. It is a convenient
means – for at bottom it is only a means – for the full and free circulation of
commodities. And this force must be in the hands of those who know how to make
the best possible use of it, in other words, in the hands, as I have already
said, of those who have abolished in them, who are somehow freed from all
personal desires, all attachments. To that must be added also a vision wide
enough to understand the needs of the earthly life, a complete knowledge capable
of <span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>organising</span> those
needs and using this force to meet them.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.95pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Over
and above this, if such people possess a higher spiritual consciousness, then
they can use the force to build slowly upon earth something that will be able
to manifest the Divine Power and the Divine Grace. It is then that this force
of money, of wealth, this power of Finance, instead of being a curse, as I have
said, would be a blessing for the welfare of all. The saying goes that it is
the worst people who become the best. I hope the best do not become the worst,
for that would be sad indeed.</p>

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greatest power, when used ill, can be a very great calamity; the same power
used well can be a blessing.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All
depends on the use that is made of a thing. Each object has a place, a
function, a true use in the world. In the world as it is, however, very few
things are used for their true purpose, very few things are in their right
place. The world is in a frightful chaos. That is why there is all this
misery, all this suffering. If each thing were in its own place, all in a
harmonious poise, the whole world would progress without any necessity of falling
into the state of misery and suffering in which it is now.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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