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J.K. 鈥� Philosopher or Humanist?

Have you read Gita 鈥� asked Morarji Desai.

No Sir, I have not read and I do not read it 鈥� J. Krishnamurty said.

Morarji was taken a.

On some other occasion, a young man asked, Are you the Jesus?

He was silent for a while and then smiled.

He once said that even death would not enter his premises without his consent.

He was a philosopher and his speeches were abstract, probably his conversations were simple and lend easy understanding.

He said many things:聽 Let there be no Guru.聽 He obstructs your freedom in thinking.聽 One finds a lot of similarity between J.K. and Rousseau since both felt that the good individual becomes polluted due to contact with his society.

Freedom of thinking in one鈥檚 own way without being influenced by so-called Guru is the common point between the two.

J.K. believed in soul and referred to it on many occasions.聽 When Indira Gandhi was assassinated, J.K. said, 鈥榟er soul was travelling into Heavens and one should not weep since that would obstruct the movement of her soul.鈥�

J.K. experienced astral separation in his own case now and then. He felt that his soul left the body and again after sometime it got into this cage.聽 He also underwent the purification process of his mind.聽 Some one was found to remodel his brain, when he felt the pain. He used to cry 鈥榦h, oh.鈥�

Krishnamurty and Swami Vivekananada discussed the need of a Guru. For the latter Ramakrishna Praramahansa was not only a Guru but God father.聽 鈥淭here is a door, you go through it.鈥澛� Here according to Swami the door represents Guru where as J.K. says that the door was one鈥檚 own self.聽 One has to pass through his own sentiments.聽 Because these sentiments are the bandages.聽 One has to free himself from these bandages.

It is exactly at this point that Buddha freed himself from the bonds. Who was the Guru of Buddha?聽 His own independent thinking, sitting under that tree, away from the society was his Guru.聽 J.K. refers to Buddha in this context.

On one occasion, some body asked his opinion about temple-entry by Harijans, one of Gandhiji鈥檚 programmes.聽 Then Krishnamurty asked why Temples at all?聽 They only complicate the present society.聽 It was strange that Krishnamurty refers to revolution more than once to solve and eradicate the present problems, like hunger, poverty etc., but he did not specify the nature and content of the revolution. He considers reform as purification and replacement as revolution.聽 According to him the Indian society needs revolution.聽 Swami Vivekananda said on this subject 鈥� that India was in need of a football field but not Bhagavad-Gita, meaning that people must take the bold and active path rather than reading Gita in seclusion.

There is what is known as treatment through prayers.聽 There are quite a few Sadhakas who are adept in this approach.聽 Krishnamurty was equally at home in this line.聽 But he never wanted any publicity.聽 He had healed a few cases.聽 It may not be out of place both Nehru and Indira Gandhi sought relief from J.K. when they were mentally agitated.

Krishnamurty resigned from theosophical organsation in 1930.聽 Anne Besent was c

restfallen.聽 When some other trust was formed by some of his friends, he insisted that he should be given a place as one of the trustees.聽 But his request was not accepted.聽 This shows that there is some contradiction in his views.

Krishnamurty talked about the religions of different schools in his own unique way!聽 Religion is a cup.聽 The content is the essence of that religion.聽 People drink some of the content and instead of praising the content they admire the cup, ignoring the preachings.聽 This is very common among those practicing different schools of thought.聽 I have come to repair hearts not bodies, J.K. said. But actually he influenced the way of thinking of humanity.聽 He was so powerful that certain energy was found released on the audience who were close to him and that would give relief.聽 Indira Gandhi with her family members met Krishnamurty in Rishi Valley and stayed there for eighteen hours and they felt refreshed when they left the place.

According to him, one should not misuse spiritual powers.聽 It is like opening others鈥� letters.聽 Very unethical to say the least.聽 He cured three cases during a journey by a flight.聽 He observed lot of discretion and never allowed any publicity.

J.K. was so categorical in his statements on time-honoured subjects, there are others who equally strongly expressed on the same subjects.聽 For instance, Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi said that J.K. did not realise his soul, and he had no authority to disclaim any Guru.

When philosophers try to explain a theory 鈥� they usually start from known to unknown.聽 But here is a thinker and philosopher who starts from unknown to unknown.聽 But yet hundreds and thousands sit craning their necks to listen to him.聽 On one occasion, a gentleman walked for seven days to attend his speech in America.

He used to say very often that he did not believe either in Gurus or in disciples.

鈥淲hat do you want us to do with your books, Sir, after you leave us?鈥� asked someone in the meeting.

鈥淏urn them鈥� 鈥� was the answer given by Krishnamurty.

Do not try to recall any thing of the past.聽 It is all dead.聽 Do not try to collect your memories and try to indulge in them.聽 It is all waste material 鈥� Krishnamurty says.

Krishnamurty, an Indian by birth, was pampered by Anne Besent and loved by Americans.

He received tremendous experiences but he never explained them to others, being very discreet.聽 He just expected that posterity would treat him as a humanist nothing more and nothing less.