By U. G. Krishnamurti
An underground non secular vintage disbursed greatly for the 1st time within the united states, this is often the tale of 1 of the main strange figures in modern spirituality, U.G. Krishnamurti, in his personal phrases. The Mystique of Enlightenment is a scathing critique of up to date spirituality. In an international during which religious innovations, lecturers, suggestions, and businesses are legion, U. G. stands approximately on my own in his rejection of all of it: "I am purely drawn to describing this country, in clearing away the occultation and mystification during which these humans within the 'holy enterprise' have shrouded the whole lot. perhaps i will be able to persuade you to not waste loads of time and effort searching for a kingdom that doesn't exist other than on your imagination... The ordinary country is acausal: it simply happens." the writer doesn't equate the average country with enlightenment, which he describes as an phantasm created by way of our tradition. He states emphatically that you can actually do not anything to realize the traditional nation. in truth, any circulate in the direction of it separates one from it.
U. G. Krishnamurti is an unique voice during which a lot of latest spirituality is known in a brand new approach. For these drawn to the whole spectrum of contemporary non secular concept, it is a "must read." within the famous historical past of J. Krishnamurti, few names were so strongly linked to his message as U. G. Krishnamurti, who shared an in depth yet contentious dating with him over a long time. U.G. was once raised to tackle the mantle of guru, very like J. Krishnamurti. while the 2 males finally met, every one had rejected the guru position, and for years they conversed on a regular basis, suffering to discover the character of fact, sooner than a falling out led each one in a unique direction.
It in all fairness universal in interpreting glossy non secular books to discover references to U. G. Krishnamurti's impression on either academics and their scholars. His books were translated into approximately each eu language, in addition to chinese language and eastern. generally appeared in India and Europe, The Mystique of Enlightenment is taken into account via U.G.'s closest affiliates to be the simplest precis of his ideas.
The e-book includes transcripts of casual talks with those that come to invite him questions. in a single of those talks, he relates his lifestyles tale, together with the occasions top as much as and comprising what he calls his "calamity," or his access into the average country. when you consider that his personal adventure of entering the average country at age forty nine, he has spent his time touring in the course of the global, staying with buddies or in rented residences for a couple of months at a time. He provides no public talks, yet meets with those who come to determine him. What he bargains isn't desire or encouragement, yet stark truth: "Of something i'm yes. i will not assist you resolve your easy hindrance or prevent from self-deception, and if i cannot assist you, not anyone can." His message is straightforward: he has no message. however, his phrases can motivate you to stand your individual assumptions and motivations and become aware of for your self what's true.
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To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are 'blessed' with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you, nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a natural man. Mystique of Enlightenment Part Three No Power Outside of Man (An Interview by Professor HSK, Mysore, India, 1980) What is necessary for man is to free himself from the entire past of mankind, not only his individual past. That is to say, you have to free yourself from what every man before you has thought, felt and experienced -- then only is it possible for you to be yourself.
Have you ever looked at that parallel movement of thought? The books on English grammar will tell you that 'I' is a first person singular pronoun, subjective case; but that is not what you want to know. Can you look at that thing you call 'I'? It is very elusive. Look at it now, feel it, touch it, and tell me. How do you look at it? And what is the thing that is looking at what you call 'I'? This is the crux of the whole problem: the one that is looking at what you call 'I' is the 'I'. It is creating an illusory division of itself into subject and object, and through this division it is continuing.
You can only talk of peace, create a state of mind and say to yourself that you are very peaceful -- but that is not peace; that is violence. So there is no use in practicing peace, there is no reason to practice silence. Real silence is explosive; it is not the dead state of mind that spiritual seekers think. "Oh, I am at peace with myself! There is silence, a tremendous silence! " -- that doesn't mean anything at all. This is volcanic in its nature: it's bubbling all the time -- the energy, the life -- that is its quality.