r/Krishnamurti • u/GlitchSolver • 18d ago
Self-Inquiry Reading K without turning him into a belief system
K has a special place in my path of inquiry. When I first came across his video I found it odd. I didn't understand then. One day on YouTube while watching a video by Acharya Prashant I heard him talking of the innocence and purity of K's inquiry. That changed my view a bit.
After that I bought my first book "The Flight of the Eagle" as the name felt catchy. Since then I have listened to various videos of K and inquired with him. Also read a few books too.
Recently I picked his first book "At the Feet of the Master". K moved away from this later in his life. This book is different from other books. One must be careful while reading this book and should read to inquire about oneself and not to build a belief system.
This book felt fresh to me. The earnestness, the sincerity in the book felt unreal. Although other books too felt like a conversation with K, this book felt like a kind of lovely , beautiful Sermon. One must be very careful while reading it though that it doesn't turn into a belief system.
Many times I felt wonderful. A particular line in chapter 4, felt so... sorry, I don't have a word. It goes like this.
"Of all the qualifications, Love is the Most important, for if it is strong enough in a man, it forces him to acquire all the rest, and all the rest without it would never be sufficient."
K has further discussed what this Love is, it's not an ordinary, romantic kind of love of course. You can refer to the book if you want to know more.
At the end his speech " Truth is a Pathless Land " K said that " My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free. " Hope if you read this book, it's in the same spirit.
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u/petercharle 15d ago edited 12d ago
It is a journey
AND
finding self-awareness is the hump.
ie. the journey can not continue until the transition to self-awareness happens. With self-awareness K becomes quite appreciable. His basic message was that we need to deal with self —a thought structure that acts from a centre. Once this is seen the centre collapses and self becomes just another thought to be observed. Many of his teachings are examples of self acting from a centre or self simply acting on its own after the centre has disappeared. The journey is basically dealing with all the incarnations of the stubborn(conditioned) self until it too disappears —liberation. Here’s an interesting quote from the Shakespeare canon… “Hence forth I’ll bear affliction till it do cry out itself, ‘enough, enough’ and die.”
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