Main Index


4. Oktober 1958 (Geld – Money)

 

Money belongs to the one who spends it; that is an absolute law. You may pile up money, but it doesn’t belong to you until you spend it. Then you have the merit, the glory, the joy, the pleasure of spending it!

Money is meant to circulate. What should remain constant is the progressive movement of an increase in the earth’s production—an ever-expanding progressive movement to increase the earth’s production and improve existence on earth. It is the material improvement of terrestrial life and the growth of the earth’s production that must go on expanding, enlarging, and not this silly paper or this inert metal that is amassed and lifeless.

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...

10. April 1968 (Geld – Money)

Geld gehört niemandem: Geld ist ein kollektives Gut, das nur von denjenigen verwendet werden sollte, die eine integrale, allgemeine und universelle Vision besitzen. Ich möchte folgendes hinzufügen: nicht allein integral und allgemein sondern auch essenziell Wahr, d.h. jemand mit dem nötigen Unterscheidungsvermögen zwischen einer Verwendung, die dem universellen Fortschritt entspricht, und einer bloßen Laune. Das sind aber Details, denn selbst die Fehler, selbst die Vergeudung, kommt, von einem bestimmten Standpunkt aus betrachtet, dem allgemeinen Fortschritt zugute: man lernt aus den Fehlern.
Money belongs to no one: money is a collective property that only those with an integral and general, universal vision must use. And let me add, a vision not only integral and general, but also essentially True, which means you can distinguish between an utilization that might be called fanciful. But those are details, because even errors – even, from a certain point of view, wasteful uses – help in the general progress: they are lessons in reverse.