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Fear is the Common State of all Mankind
Fear is the common state of all mankind, whether you live in a small house or in a palace, whether you have no work or plenty of work, whether you have tremendous knowledge about everything on earth or are ignorant, or whether you are a priest or the highest representative of god, or whatever, there is still this deep rooted fear which is common to all mankind. That is a common ground on which all humanity stands. There is no question about it. It is an absolute, irrevocable fact, it cannot be contradicted. As long as the brain is caught in this pattern of fear its operation is limited and therefore can never function wholly. So it is necessary, if humanity is to survive completely as human beings and not as machines, to find out for oneself whether it is possible to be totally free from fear.
- The Network of Thought Chapter 5
THE RELIGIOUS MAN STAYS VERY MUCH ALONE: The End of a Seventy Year Story
The year was 1940. J. Krishnamurti had travelled to the United States from India in 1939 via Australia on the eve of World War II. Patwardhan was ill but travelled with him and died soon after reaching California. Krishnaji stayed in Arya Vihara, Ojai, California for seven years from 1940 to 1947 with D. Rajagopal, Rosalind and their daughter Radha then barely eight years old.
The US Immigration authorities offered Rajagopal American citizenship, which he accepted. In any case he was entitled to it, having been married to an American citizen. As an eminent personality, they offered Krishnamurti also American citizenship, but he preferred to keep his Indian nationality so declined their offer. The US authorities regarded him a pacifist and were not sure if he should be allowed to stay when the US actually entered war in 1941.
Krishnamurti wrote to Sydney Fields who had just become the Costa Rican Ambassador to USA for a suitable letter to enable him to stay in the USA. Fields wrote a letter to the State Department saying how honored he was to recommend that Krishnamurti be permitted to stay. Those two letters have been published in Fields’ book of 1990 entitled “The Reluctant Messiah.”
Never the less, an FBI agent visited Krishnamurti in Ojai to investigate his background and to ascertain what kind of person he was and to determine if it was safe to permit him to stay. At their first meeting the man was tough and asked many questions, among them an insistent one: “Do you spend a great deal of time alone?”
The FBI agent eventually softened by Krishnamurti’s affectionate presence and sent off a favorable report to Washington D.C. Sometime later he came back to meet Krishnamurti informally. Krishnamurti remembered what he had asked in his earlier visit and said, “I am curious, why did you ask if I spent a lot of time alone?” The agent replied, “Because, we have invariably found that revolutionaries stay a great deal by themselves, even though they have a large following.” Krishnamurti’s comment at that point was, “The religious man too stays very much alone.”
In the 1980s the eminent White House speech writer Milton Friedman was a Krishnamurti Foundation of America trustee. He had arranged for Krishnamurti to speak at the US Senate and at the Kennedy Center in Washington. At that time Krishnamurti had interviews with Jacqueline Kennedy, Senator Clairborn Pell, and Sir
After Krishnamurti had died in 1986, working at the White House, Friedman logged onto the security websites there and discovered that J. Krishnamurti was labeled UNDESIRABLE ALIEN in the FBI and CIA records. He alerted the KFA and immediately and Executive Director R.E. Mark Lee contacted the two agencies. After a trip to the FBI, under the Freedom of Information Act, and with the help of Senator Diane Feinstein KFA received the redacted records of Krishnamurti dating back to 1940. The documents revealed no compelling information that would have justified the UNDESIRABLE ALIEN label except for some information that a member of the Star Publishing Trust in South America may have had some association with a Nazi organization before the war.
Mark Lee began a campaign in the 1990s to clear Krishnamurti’s records that would allow the KFA to apply for Federal funds for the Oak Grove School. Years turned into decades and finally, in Spring 2010, with help from Senators Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer the saga has ended. Both Senators notified the KFA that there was really nothing more to be done regarding Krishnamurti records because; first, the CIA and FBI do not change the records of deceased persons; second, because Krishnamurti had a US Green Card issued in the 1980s he would have been cleared of any serious, certainly any Federal, offenses, in-fact or by innuendo or association.
The story ends and as Krishnamurti said, ‘the religious man stays very much alone.’
Teaching Academy Co-sponsored by Oak Grove School and University of California, Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
Despertar a La Vida / La Crisis No Es Externa, Es Interna
Despertar a La Vida
Es necesario no confundir la palabra con la cosa descrita; la palabra nunca es lo real, y facilmente nos desorientaremos cuando abordemos el siguiente paso de lo que representa ser consciente, porque lo convertiremos en algo personal, y a travas de las palabras nos volvemos emocionales. Con una sencillez pedagagica extraordinaria, Krishnamurti nos introduce en la esencia de conceptos que tienen que ver tanto con la comprension del mundo como con las acciones o actitudes cotidianas y personales frente a la vida (la existencia de Dios, el amor, la conciencia, el ser humano, el conflicto, el sufrimiento o la vida religiosa, entre otras), y brinda con ello una ayuda inestimable a quienes hoy, cada vez mas, se cuestionan las grandes contradicciones de nuestra sociedad y la manera de abordarlas.
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La Crisis No Es Externa, Es Interna
Los conflictos internos se convierten en desastres externos; el problema de uno es el problema del mundo y solo uno puede solucionarlo, nadie mas, nadie puede hacerlo por otro. El politico, el economista, el reformador, al igual que uno, es un oportunista, un inventor de planes; pero nuestros problemas, el conflicto, la desdicha humana y esta existencia vacia que produce desastres tan atroces, requiere algo mas que invenciones astutas o reformas superficiales de los politicos y propagandistas. Se necesita un cambio radical de la mente humana y nadie puede generar esa transformacion para otro, cada uno debe hacerlo.
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The Goal of Life
Now this reality is something which I assert that I have attained. For me, it is not a theological concept. It is my own life-experience, definite, real, concrete. I can, therefore, speak of what is necessary for its achievement, and I say that the first thing is the recognizing exactly what desire must become in order to fulfil oneself, and then to discipline oneself so that at every moment, one is watching one’s own desires, and guiding them towards that all-inclusiveness of impersonal love which must be their true consummation.
When you have established the discipline of this constant awareness, this constant watchfulness upon all that you think and feel and do, then life ceases to be the tyrannical, tedious, confusing thing that it is for most of us, and becomes but a series of opportunities towards that perfect fulfillment. The goal of life is, therefore, not something far off, to be attained in the distant future, but it is to be realised moment by moment in that now which is all eternity.
- Early Works, circa 1930
