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===Giving to the Divine===
It is to the Divine that all riches belong. It is the Divine who lends them to living beings, and it is to Him that they must naturally return.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/wealth-and-economics#p3</ref>
<center>~</center> The rich man, or even people who are quite well-off and have all sorts of things in life and give to the Divine what they have in surplus—for usually this is the gesture: one has a little more money than one needs, one has a few more things than one needs, and so, generously, one gives that to the Divine. It is better than giving nothing. But even if this "little more" than what they need represents lakhs of rupees, the gift is less perfect than the one of half the mango. For it is not by the quantity or the quality that it is measured: it is by the sincerity of the giving and the absoluteness of the giving.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/11-january-1956#p13</ref> <center>~</center>
So the first thing to do when one has money is to give it. But as it is said that it should not be given without discernment, don't go and give it like those who practise philanthropy, because that fills them with a sense of their own goodness, their generosity and their own importance. You must act in a sattwic way, that is, make the best possible use of it. And so, each one must find in his highest consciousness what the best possible use of the money he has can be. And truly money has no value unless it circulates. For each and every one, money is valuable only when one has spent it.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/16-february-1955#p29</ref>
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True wealth is that which one offers to the Divine.
You are rich only by the money that you give to the Divine Cause.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/wealth-and-economics#p11,p12</ref>
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Prosperity stays consistently only with him who offers it to the Divine.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/wealth-and-economics#p19,p20,p21,p22</ref>
<center>~</center> If you give the money to the Mother, that can't be commercial; commerce implies personal profit, and here your profit is only spiritual.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/giving-money-to-the-mother#p6</ref>
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