Mother Teresa never asked for funds

She never asked for funds or even permitted fund-raising. Mother Teresa depended on providence. She believed if the work was intended, the money would come. If money did not come, the reverse held true.

What would happen to her mission when she passed on, I once asked her. She did not answer but instead only pointed her finger towards heaven. But I persisted. She laughed and said: “Let me go first.” 

I asked her the third time and this time she replied: “You have been to so many of our missions in India and abroad. Everywhere our Sisters wear the same saris, eat the same kind of food, do the same kind of work. But Mother Teresa is not everywhere. Yet the work goes on.” 

Then she added: “As long as we remain committed to the poorest of the poor and do not end up serving the rich, the work will prosper.” 

From Navin Chawla's article Mother Teresa: a remembrance in The Hindu.

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