The money-power belongs to a world which was created deformed. It is something that belongs to the vital world; and {Sri Aurobindo} says this, does he not? He says that it belongs to the vital and material worlds. And so at all times, always it was under the control of the Asuric forces; and what must be done is precisely to reconquer it from the Asuric forces.
That is why in the past, all those who wanted to do yoga or follow a discipline, used to say that one should not touch money, for it was something – they said diabolic or asuric or at least altogether opposed to the Divine life. But the whole universe, in all its manifestation, is the Divine Himself, and so belongs entirely to Him; and it is on this ground that he says that the money-forces belong to the Divine. One must reconquer them and give them to Him. They have been under the influence of the asuric forces: one must win them back in order to put them at the disposal of the Divine so that He may be able to use them for His work of transformation.
