The importance of meditation The Lord is attained without the least effort; he is worshipped by self-realisation alone. … The self is not realised by any other means other than meditation. If one is able to meditate even for thirteen seconds, even if one is ignorant one attains the merit of giving away a cow [...]
Archive of posts tagged J. Krishnamurti
Are you seeking God?
It is an illusion to think that we are all seeking God — we are not. We don’t have to search for light. There will be light when there is no darkness and through darkness we cannot find the light. All that we can do is to remove those barriers that create darkness and the [...]
Inner light alone is the means
All that I am trying to do is to help you to discern for yourself that there is no salvation outside of yourself, that no Master, no society, can save you; that no church, no ceremony, no prayer can break down your self-created limitations and restrictions; that only through your own strenuous awareness is there [...]
Sense pleasures or the bliss of peace?
Weigh in the balance of your wisdom, the sense-pleasures on one side and the bliss of peace on the other. Whatever you determine to be the truth, seek that. — Yoga Vasishta (tr. by Sw. Venkatesananda, p. 146) Questioner: How would you cope with an incurable disease? Krishnamurti: Most of us do not understand ourselves, [...]
'I' love 'you'?
Love is not of the self. Self cannot recognize love. You say ‘I love’; but then in the very saying of it, in the very experiencing of it, love is not. But when you know love, self is not. When there is love, self is not. — J. Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom
J. Krishnamurti on fanaticism
To identify oneself with a particular race, with a particular country or with certain ideologies yields security, satisfaction and flattering self-importance. This worship of the part, instead of the whole, cultivates antagonism, conflict and confusion. — J. Krishnamurti, 4 June 1944. Do not let us be clouded by words, names or labels which only bring [...]
Admiration Vs Possessiveness
When you see the beauty somewhere, when you fall in love with something, the next impulse that comes in you is to possess it, have it; and, when you have it, it looses all its significance. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar When you see a sunset, in that moment of beauty there is a spontaneous, [...]
Not another can transform you
We are responsible for our conduct, not another; not another can transform us. Each one must discover and experience Reality and in that alone is there joy, serenity and highest wisdom. — J. Krishnamurti, Ojai 4th public talk, 1945.
You cannot indulge and yet be alert
“You cannot be worldly and yet be pure in the pursuit of Reality. Our difficulty is we want both, the burning appetites and the serenity of Reality. You must abandon the one or the other; you cannot have both. You cannot indulge and yet be alert; to be keenly aware there must be freedom from [...]
J. Krishnamurti on simple life
“Simple life does not consist in the mere possession of a few things but in the freedom from possession and non-possession, in the indifference to things that comes with deep understanding. Merely to renounce things in order to reach greater happiness, greater joy that is promised, is to seek reward which limits thought and prevents [...]
