Ug krishnamurti london

People come to gurus to solve their mundane problems, or the artificial problem — the search for enlightenment. This desire is exploited by gurus, who offer ways to reach that goal; according to Krishnamurti, they can never deliver what they promise, since the goal is unreachable. Though some of his ideas are definitely sharp and clear, most of the times U. Krishnamurti, but spiced up with a good load of bitterness, misanthropy and even hate towards humanity.

He kept on insisting on the uniqueness of his message and ridiculing all other spiritual teachers. But unlike J. Krishnamurti, who through negation was always leading the audience towards a higher goal, U.

With age his expressions were becoming more and more bitter. He always remained just a thinker, and continued doubting enlightenment till the end of his life. At the end, the question about any teaching is — what good does it bring to people? Definitely no. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Skip to content Recent News.

Facebook Comments. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. He responded to their queries and answered their questions in the way only he could. He usually stayed with friends or in small rented apartments, but never stayed in one place for more than six months. He gave no lectures or discourses. He had no organisation, no office, no secretary, and no fixed address.

Despite his endless repetition that he had "no message for mankind," ironically yet naturally thousands of people the world-over felt otherwise and flocked to see and listen to his "anti-teaching". In , he went public and gave his first TV interview, which was soon to be followed by several TV and radio interviews the world over.

You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody. There used to be long stretches of utter silence. It used to be embarrassing; also a tremendous relief from the burden of knowing. And then U. And the room would explode with laughter: funny, silly, dark, and apocalyptic!

At last freed from the tyranny of knowledge, beauty, goodness, truth, and God, we would all mock and laugh at everything, mock heroes and lovers, thinkers and politicians, scientists and thieves, kings and sages, including U.

Who was this U. What kind of person was he? For a man who complained that we are constantly preoccupied with something other than what is happening at the moment, he endlessly talked about himself and his past. One could never fathom U. His answers to our questions came straight like arrows, unsettling our minds. He was well-known for striking down not only the edifices we have so carefully built in our own minds but the foundations of human thought as a whole.

There was a unique energy with U. And let this be told: when U. Likewise we sometimes connected his radical statements to certain expressions or declarations in the Avadhuta Gita , Ashtavakra Gita , the Upanishads and Zen Koans , or compared them with the teachings of J. Krishnamurti, Nisargadatta Maharaj and even the post-modern "deconstructionists".

We could go on thus, making such connections and comparisons, but that did not help us to get a handle on the mystery that was U. But there is nothing that I can do to change the course of events. One more thought. Postponing a problem of course does not solve it. There is a way out of an unhappy marriage. When one partner breaks the law of commitment, the right accrues to the other of breaking the bond.

The woman is not the husband's bond slave but his companion, and as an equal partner is as free as the husband to choose her own way of life. Since the new Hindu Code Bill provides for divorce, why don't you find some grounds either for divorce or legal separation?

That would save a lot of mental anguish for us both. Do not for a moment think that I am asking you to do anything I would not do myself. But, personally, it does not matter to me one way or the other. There is no reason for me to return to India. Be happy and stay happy.

I wish you the best and the finest. If there is any significance to the number seven and cycles of multiples of seven I do not know, but U. No one knew where U. One of his cousins who lived in England at that time sent a letter addressed to a friend of U. His friend did not know of U. Six months later, when U. He did not see any reaction on U. He asked him, 'What does the letter say?

But he wrote a letter to his children expressing his sympathy for their loss. The younger daughter wrote back telling him about her mother's last years after the breakup with U.

She received electric shock treatments. She came out of the hospital within a few weeks of the treatment and died in an accident in which she had slipped and broken her neck. He lost contact with his children. In , when he returned after almost fourteen years, his daughters were married and had children of their own. In the year , U. I was like a leaf blown here, there and everywhere. But, according to U.

The mystic phrase, 'the dark night of the soul', has been used to describe those years of U. In his view, 'There was no heroic struggle with temptation and worldliness, no soul-wrestling urges, no poetic climaxes but just a simple withering away of the will.

The only book that interested him was the Thesaurus of American Underground Slang. During the nights he wandered the streets reading the names and telephone numbers of call girls written on the trees. One day U. I have practically become a bum living on the charity of people. This is a shoddy life. I have gone insane. He warned him to leave and threatened to lock him up if he didn't. Then he walked the rest of the way to the Mission.

It was ten o'clock at night when he got there. As luck would have it, the Swami himself emerged. The Swami explained that he could not allow that as it was against the Mission's policy. However, he gave U. He was invited for lunch. I had lost even the appetite for food. I didn't know what hunger was or thirst was,' said U. I will wash your dishes or do something else. But I can't write anything,' said U. The Swami said that he was looking for a man with a background in Indian philosophy.

His assistant, who used to do the editorial work, had ended up in a mental hospital. The Swami declared that he was in a fix. But the Swami did not yield. While working on the centenary issue, U. There was a time when he could write a check for a hundred thousand rupees. With those five pounds U. He stayed at the Mission, worked in the morning, ate at 1 p. Soon he exhausted all his money and had seen every film in and around London.

He himself was through with the entire game. Then one day, he had a very strange experience in the meditation room. When I think of U. That name brings back memories of perhaps the most intense days spent with U. Vasant was one of India's leading copywriters. His face flickers on the screen of my mind. He was a handsome boy, soft, sweet, quiet. I was there one evening when he complained to U.

Little did any one of us know then that in a few days he would die of sarcoma galloping cancer. He was only thirty-two then. His reaction, it is said, was not remotely close to that of a father. He was 'abnormally' casual. Our friends in Bangalore insisted that U. I was waiting to pick him up and take him straight to Vasant who was by then in a hospital.

I searched his face to look for traces of anxiety. But U. I was certain that it was not pretended. As we drove to the city hospital he said, 'So the death watch has begun. I only hope that the cancer does not spread to the brain.