What is wealth? Is it the currency notes? Wealth is anything that has been earned. Our physical prowess in also a type of wealth. Similarly, education, health, your earnings-they all classify under your wealth. Hence, though you have become poor without currency notes, it does not matter. Develop the wealth of a sound character. When you have your character intact and spotless, you will acquire everything else. Character is like a big magnet. It attracts towards itself all other types of wealth. (M, p. 209)

What is wealth? Who is the richest man in the world? The one who has contentment is the richest. Who is the poorest? The one who is full of unfulfilled desires is the poorest. Wealth or poverty is related to your desires. All worldly praise and blame pertain to the body only, not to the spirit. The body is impermanent. It is like a water bubble. The mind is a mad monkey. Don’t

follow either. Follow your conscience. (SSS Vol.33, p. 274)

When wealth increases so does pride.

With prosperity grows vices galore.

With moderate prosperity there is less scope for pride.

With increasing humility virtue grows. (Telugu Poem)

(S S B 2002 p, 185)

Happiness, truth and sacrifice constitute the wealth in the treasury of God. You can be happy only when you understand the relationship that should exist between man and man. If we ask ourselves what the meaning of happiness is, we get the answer that absence of sorrow is happiness. (SSB 1973, p. 2)

Wealth is not permanent and Kama is something, which wavers. Wealth and lust are things, which are impermanent and keep on changing. (SSB 1974, p. 63)

One’s wealth is unsteady and quickly changes like the phases of the moon. It will also move away and disappear with time. Do not develop a feeling for the disappearing wealth. What I am now telling you is the plain truth and is what actually happens in this world. (SSB 1974, p. 213)

There are four inheritors of hoarded wealth. The first is charity; the second, the king. Fire is the third inheritor and the robber, the fourth. (SV, p. 171)

Wealth is to be held on trust, and used for promoting the brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God. (SSS Vol.7, p. 41)

Wealth beyond one’s own capacity is harmful; it can take away one’s peace of mind. It can increase one’s ego and make one forget God. (DBG, p. 190)

These days wealth increases but not magnanimity. Of what use is wealth if one cannot be happy? (Div, p. 34)

Too much wealth is an embarrassment like an oversize shoe; too little of it is painful like an undersize shoe that pinches. So, it is better to have only that much of wealth, which is adequate for one’s basic needs. (Uniq, p. 159)

The Divine is described as possessing eight forms of wealth. In fact, man is endowed with all these Ashtaishvarya (eight forms of wealth) - Nirgunam, Niranjanam, Sanathanam, Niketanam, Nitya Shuddha,Buddha, Mukta and Nirmala Swarupinam (beyond qualities, untainted, eternal, ever-abiding, ever pure, intelligent, liberated and immaculate). Out of a sense of weakness, man assumes that these attributes relate only to the Divine and not to him. This feeling should be totally eschewed. (SSS Vol.26, p. 188)