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[Anonymous No.14669561]

U.G Krishnamurti on Jiddu Krishnamurti (no relation) :

>Jiddu Krishnamurti always began his talks with the refrain, 'Let us take a journey together.' I asked him one day, 'Where are you? Are you there? Or are you actually taking a journey with us? You pick a subject and ask us to proceed step by step, logically, rationally, sanely and intelligently. There comes a point when you exclaim, "I got it! Somebody got it?" It is theatrics. It's a performance. To put it crudely, it is burlesque. You take off and talk of love, bliss, beatitude, immensity and so on. But we are left high and dry. You are offering us bogus chartered flights.'

>The question that was uppermost in my mind every time I encountered Jiddu Krishnamurti was this: 'What is there behind all those abstractions you are throwing at me? Is there anything at all? I am not interested in your poetic and romantic descriptions. As for your abstractions, you are no match to the mighty thinkers that India has produced—you can't hold a candle to them. The way you describe things gives me the feeling that you have at least "seen the sugar"—to use a familiar traditional metaphor—but I am not sure that you have tasted the sugar.'

>I repeated this question time and again, one way or another, at every meeting with Jiddu Krishnamurti and never received a direct or satisfactory answer. The total break came in Bombay. This was my last visit with him for a long time. Again I asked him if there was anything behind the abstractions he was throwing at me, 'Come clean for once.' Then he said with great force, 'You have no way of knowing it!' Then I said, 'If I have no way of knowing it and you have no way of communicating it, what the hell have we been doing? I have wasted seven years listening to you. You can give your precious time to somebody else. I am leaving for New York tomorrow.' Krishnamurti said, 'Pleasant journey and safe landing!'

How based can one man be?

[Anonymous No.14669585]

To understand UG better here are some links

Read and watch these.

Some decent background infomation

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U._G._Krishnamurti

>https://ug-krishnamurti.blogspot.com/2010/09/question-of-mind-ug-krishnamurti-what.html

Mystique of enlightenment

>https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/U.G.-Krishnamurti-The-Mystique-of-Enlightenment.pdf

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNJ3oDLkoX0

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC1GULbovo8

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx8f76kuGAY

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRNvmZtASqA

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWsNfoiU-_4

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-LZSl6TGdw

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1exoQ3W-6E4

[Anonymous No.14669591]

>>14669561
Considering that it took him seven years to come to this simple realization very based. How difficult it is to finally cut your ties with something that was near and dear to you.

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