India - the Mother

October, 1958

Money is meant to circulate.... It is the material progress of life on earth and the growth of the earth's production that must go on expanding, enlarging, not this silly paper or this inert metal that people amass and keep lifeless.

Money is not meant to produce money; money is meant to produce an increase in production, an improvement in the conditions of life and a progress in human consciousness. That is its purpose. What I call an improvement in consciousness, a progress in consciousness, is everything that education in all its forms can provide—not education as it's generally understood, but as we understand it here: education in art, education from that of the body, from the most material progress, to the spiritual education of progress through yoga; the whole spectrum, everything that leads humanity towards its future realization. Money must serve to develop that, to develop the material base for the earth's progress, the best use of what the earth can give—an intelligent use, not a use that wastes forces. The use that allows energies to be replenished.

In the universe there is an inexhaustible source of energies that ask only to be replenished.... Instead of using what science has found so that men may destroy each other a little more effectively than they have been doing, it must be used to enrich the earth : to make the earth richer and richer, more and more active, generous, productive, and to make all life grow towards its maximum efficiency. That is the way money should be used....

It's a challenge I throw down at all the great financiers : I say that they are parching and ruining the earth with their idiotic system; and that with even less than they are now spending for useless things ... they could, oh, transform the earth so quickly! They could transform it, put it into contact, truly into contact, with the supramental forces, which will let life be bountiful and constantly renewed, instead of becoming parched, stagnant, shrivelled up—instead of becoming a future moon. A dead moon.

Mother's Agenda: October 4, 1958