Michael Beloved Eileen Hitch Xenarios,

Technically speaking there is no relationship between physical opulence (material wealth/success) and spirituality. There is an example of how to understand this in the life story of Vamana Vishnu, a dwarf boy who was rated as an incarnation of God. As the story goes he wanted to get three steps of land from the Emperor Bali. The emperor for his part explained to the boy, that three steps of land was useless because if one wanted to build a residence and farm then more land would better serve the purpose. However Vamana insisted that three steps was enough because he said that if a person was not satisfied with that amount, even the entire planet would be insufficient.

In other words being satisfied with what is easily attainable is a demonstration of being spiritual satisfied? Being greedy and wanting more is an indication of being out of touch with spirituality.

Michael Beloved To directly answer your query, I would state that in my experience, I found that material nature already has its idea of what it is willing to give anybody. It may give a criminally minded person money. It may keep a law-abiding citizen on a provenance of scarcity with enough only or even with less than enough generally.

If one tries to outfit oneself with more than nature willing will provide, one may get into hardship, stress and difficulty. For most people excess wealth serves as a distraction from spirituality. For that matter with wealth comes the need to preserve and protect the opulence. That takes energy and attention which could otherwise we used to research and realize spirituality.

Wealth attracts competition and causes others to envy oneself. In the Uddhava Gita, Krishna gave the example of the hawk which acquired a piece of meat and flew away with it. Some other hawks noticed and attacked it in midair, dive bombing it to get the meat.

Michael Beloved For while the hawk kept the meat and fought as best as it could. But then it dropped the meat and the pursuing hawks left it and dove down to get the fallen meat. Krishna said that the hawk became happy once the meat fell from its beak.

This means that any opulence we have which is noticed or heard of by others may cause envy, which in turn makes us become the subject of attacks. That unnerves or stresses us out, which is an inefficient use of energy which could otherwise be used to discover and reinforce spirituality which is life beyond the endangered physical body.
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What you said is correct that if a person evolves spiritually, he/she would not necessarily have material success. This is absolutely true. But we must take care not to come under social influences which would make us become dissatisfied if we have no opulence.

Michael Beloved Someone may be evolved spiritually and have access to abundance, while some other person may be even more evolved and be hard up for money. This is because each individual self has a preset relationship with material nature where one may be its favorite and one may not be in its graces, no matter what one does to change this.

Hence it takes resignation to fate.

Sometimes a mother is easy on one child and very permitting to the infant while the same mother is rude and disciplinary to her other child and very hard up to it. Why is this? People say that all relationships should be equally serviced!

What is the cause of innate favoritism?

I feel that the best way for people who are on the spiritual path is to recognize how best to get along with material nature and adopt the relationship where nature is the least antagonistic to oneself and where it best facilitates realization of the spiritual self. If that means poverty, then so be it!

Michael Beloved Jesus Christ helped us to understand this:

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Michael Beloved There is a danger for those of us who want to go to higher dimensions, where if we maintain in ourselves the earn-my-keep attitude, we may deprive ourselves of the opportunity to get transferred from having to take these physical transmigrations.

The idea that by the sweat of his/her brow a person should eat bread has some value when one uses a material body but if we keep it as an attitude in the subtle body or psychology, then we will limited ourselves only to physical existence.

In the higher dimensions no one works for a living. It is 100% leisure existence with no possibility of endeavoring for anything.