Wealth & Money Quote by Sri Chinmoy

Sri Chinmoy’s line turns “wealth” inside out, stealing the language of accumulation and rerouting it toward devotion. The intent is both corrective and aspirational: if modern life trains us to treat security as something you can stockpile, he’s insisting the only non-negotiable resource is relational and spiritual. Calling love “wealth” isn’t just a pretty metaphor; it’s a deliberate challenge to the way status and scarcity organize human behavior. Wealth, in the everyday sense, produces anxiety because it can be lost, compared, hoarded. Love, in Chinmoy’s framing, is the one currency that expands by being spent.

The subtext is theological and quietly polemical. “God precisely is” tightens the claim: love isn’t one attribute among others (power, judgment, law) but God’s essence. That word “precisely” reads like a rebuttal to colder, more transactional versions of religion - faith as compliance, salvation as a deal. He’s arguing for a mystic’s God: not an accountant of sins but a presence you experience as love. In that move, ethics becomes less about rule-following and more about alignment with a reality that is fundamentally affectionate, expansive, and intimate.

Context matters: Chinmoy wrote and taught in a late-20th-century milieu hungry for Eastern-inflected spirituality, especially among Western seekers disenchanted with both consumerism and institutional religion. The quote works because it doesn’t scold material desire; it outbids it. If you want the richest thing, he implies, stop chasing substitutes.