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It is intended to be viewed in a RSS News Reader. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/krishnamurti-to-himself/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/krishnamurti-to-himself/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 20:36:28 +0530 If you want to understand the nature of meditation you should really forget the word because you cannot possibly measure with words that which is not measurable, that which is beyond all measure. No words can convey it, nor any systems, modes of thought, practice or discipline. Meditation - or rather if we could find another word which has not been so mutilated, made so ordinary, corrupt, which has become the means of earning a great deal of money - if you can put aside the word, then you begin quietly and gently to feel a movement that is not of time. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/questions-and-answers/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/questions-and-answers/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 11:52:29 +0530 Perception is action, not perception, interval, then action. In the interval there arises the idea. The mind, the brain, the whole human nervous and psychological structure, can be free of this burden of a million years of time so that you see something clearly and therefore that action is invariably immediate... That ultimate thing, which is truth, is not to be achieved through time. It can never be achieved; it is there; or it is not there. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/krishnamurti-on-education/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/krishnamurti-on-education/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 18:28:11 +0530 Education is not only learning from books, memorizing some facts, but also learning how to look, how to listen to what the books are saying, whether they are saying something true or false. All that is part of education. Education is not just to pass examinations, take a degree and a job, get married and settle down, but also to be able to listen to the birds, to see the sky, to see the extraordinary beauty of a tree, and the shape of the hills, and to feel with them, to be really, directly in touch with them. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/you-are-world/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/you-are-world/ Sun, 26 Feb 2023 20:28:40 +0530 Thought is the greatest thing in life, the intellectuals adore it, but when you look very closely at the whole process of thought - however reasonable, however logical - it is still the response of memory which is always old, so thought itself is old and can never bring about freedom. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/world-of-peace/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/world-of-peace/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 21:08:37 +0530 The brain is endlessly active, chattering from one subject to another, from one thought to another, from one association to another, from one state to another - it's constantly occupied. One is not aware of it generally. But when one is aware without any choice, choiceless awareness of this movement, then that very awareness, that very attention ends that chattering. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/what-is-right-action/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/what-is-right-action/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 19:18:03 +0530 Understanding does not lie through books. You can be students of books for many years, and if you do not know how to live, then all your knowledge withers; it has no substance, no value. Whereas, one moment of full awareness, full conscious understanding, brings about real, lasting peace; not a thing that is static, but that peace which is continually in movement, unlimited. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/mirror-of-relationship/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/mirror-of-relationship/ Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:05:30 +0530 I am not asking you to believe what I say, nor am I subtly making you follow me in order that you may be exploited. Independently of me, you can experiment with what I say. I am trying to show you how one can live sanely and deeply, with creative richness, so that one's life is a fulfilment and not a continual frustration. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/only-revolution/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/only-revolution/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:09:54 +0530 Meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart. It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable. Through negation there is the positive state. Merely to gather, or to live in, experience, denies the purity of meditation. Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. .... Meditation is the ending of thought, not by the meditator, for the meditator is the meditation. If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/life-ahead/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/life-ahead/ Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:33:42 +0530 The real thing is to understand yourself, to see why you are perpetually asking for something, why there is in you this demand, this urge to beg. The more you know yourself through awareness of what you are thinking, what you are feeling, the more you will discover the truth of what is; and it is this truth that will help you to be free. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/impossible-question/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/impossible-question/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 21:22:09 +0530 I feel there is only one way, that is: through negation to come to the positive; through understanding what it is not, to find out what it is. To see what one actually is and go beyond that. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/future-is-now/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/future-is-now/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:16:11 +0530 Time is the past, time is now; and the now is controlled by the past, shaped by the past. And the future is a modification of the present. I am putting it dreadfully simply. So the future is now. Therefore the question is: If all time is contained in the now, all time - past, present and future - then what do we mean by change? https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/beyond-violence/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/beyond-violence/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 12:29:42 +0530 The world has divided itself into nationalities and religious groups and political groups. This division is bringing about war, hatred. And that very war is destroying us, though we think through nationalism we shall have security. So when one realizes all this, intelligence becomes extraordinarily important. And you know when that intelligence is operating, and it can operate only when there is no fear. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/art-of-listening/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/art-of-listening/ Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:49:46 +0530 This realization of truth, of the eternal, is not in the movement of time, which is but a habit of the mind. When you say that you will realize it in course of time, that is, in some future, then you are only postponing that comprehension which must ever be in the present. But if the mind understands the completeness of life, and is free from the division of time into the past, present, and future, then there comes the realization of that living eternal reality. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/choiceless-awareness/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/choiceless-awareness/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 10:40:07 +0530 The whole thought process, which includes the thinker, has to come to an end. It is only then that we will find reality. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/tradition-and-revolution/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/tradition-and-revolution/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 10:39:45 +0530 In these dialogues Krishnamurti starts questioning from a totally tentative position, from a state of not-knowing, and in a sense, therefore, he starts at the same level as the participants. During the discussion, various analytical enquiries are made; tentative and exploratory. There is a questioning without seeking immediate solution: a step by step observation of the processes of thought and its unfoldment - a movement of penetration and withdrawal, every movement plunging attention deeper and deeper into the recesses of the mind. https://www.shastras.com/sri-ramakrishna/tales-and-parables-of-sri-ramakrishna/ https://www.shastras.com/sri-ramakrishna/tales-and-parables-of-sri-ramakrishna/ Mon, 06 Feb 2023 11:48:11 +0530 ONCE, a salt doll went to measure the depth of the ocean. It wanted to tell others how deep the water was. But this it could never do, for no sooner did it get into the water than it melted. Now, who was there to report the ocean depth? What Brahman is cannot be described. In samadhi one attains the knowledge of Brahman - one realises Brahman. In that state reasoning stops altogether and man becomes mute. He has no power to describe the nature of Brahman. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/exploration-into-insight/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/exploration-into-insight/ Mon, 06 Feb 2023 11:38:25 +0530 Krishnamurti teaching negates gurus and psychic experiences as a way to liberation. He demands a life of correctness, a daily life free from all self-centred activity. All psychic experiences as they arise have to be put aside, for they can become obstacles to insight, which alone frees man from duality and the bondage of time as the past. https://www.shastras.com/vedanta-books-other/yoga-vasishta-sara/ https://www.shastras.com/vedanta-books-other/yoga-vasishta-sara/ Sun, 05 Feb 2023 12:04:42 +0530 That consciousness which is the witness of the rise and fall of all beings, know that to be the immortal state of supreme bliss. https://www.shastras.com/vedanta-books-other/laghu-yoga-vasishta/ https://www.shastras.com/vedanta-books-other/laghu-yoga-vasishta/ Sun, 05 Feb 2023 12:04:22 +0530 Yoga Vasishta is a popular text on Advaita Vedanta, Puranic in form and philosophical in content.... The author says clearly that the non-dual Reality which exists amidst the many heterogeneous things of the world can be cognized through one's self-cognition only and not by any amount of words or logic or thought. https://www.shastras.com/vedanta-books-other/yoga-vasishta/ https://www.shastras.com/vedanta-books-other/yoga-vasishta/ Sun, 05 Feb 2023 12:04:09 +0530 Yoga Vasishta is an extraordinarily long book that is considered among the most valuable spiritual treatises and the most comprehensive exposition of non-dualistic (advaita) philosophy or Vedanta..... Shiva instructs Vasishta on the best way to worship God, which is internally as empty consciousness. He explains that consciousness has forgotten itself, and that creation really exists as divine consciousness. https://www.shastras.com/vedas/shukla-yajur-veda/ https://www.shastras.com/vedas/shukla-yajur-veda/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:33:43 +0530 Shukla Yajurveda is represented by the Vajasaneyi Samhita. The name Vajasaneyi is derived from Vajasaneya, patronymic of sage Yajnavalkya, an authority and according to tradition, founder of the Vajasaneyi branch. https://www.shastras.com/vedas/sama-veda/ https://www.shastras.com/vedas/sama-veda/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:32:35 +0530 Sama veda (from saman melody and veda knowledge), is second (in the usual order) of the four Vedas, the ancient core Hindu scriptures. Its earliest parts are believed to date from 1700 BC (since all of its verses are from the Rigveda) and it ranks next in sanctity and liturgical importance to the Rigveda. https://www.shastras.com/vedas/rig-veda/ https://www.shastras.com/vedas/rig-veda/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:31:22 +0530 Rigveda is an ancient Indian sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns. It is counted among the four canonical sacred texts (sruti) of Hinduism known as the Vedas. Some of its verses are still recited as Hindu prayers, at religious functions and other occasions, putting these among the world's oldest religious texts in continued use. The Rigveda contains several mythological and poetical accounts of the origin of the world, hymns praising the gods, and ancient prayers for life, prosperity, etc. https://www.shastras.com/vedas/krishna-yajur-veda/ https://www.shastras.com/vedas/krishna-yajur-veda/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:30:32 +0530 There are four recensions of the Krishna Yajurveda: Taittiriya samhita (TS) originally of Panchala, Maitrayani samhita (MS) originally of the area south of Kurukshetra, Caraka-Katha samhita (KS) originally of Madra and Kurukshetra and Kapisthala-Katha samhita (KapS) of the southern Punjab and Bahika. https://www.shastras.com/vedas/atharva-veda/ https://www.shastras.com/vedas/atharva-veda/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:19:24 +0530 Atharvaveda (a tatpurusha compound of atharvan, an ancient Rishi, and veda, meaning knowledge) is a sacred text of Hinduism and one of the four Vedas, often called the fourth Veda. According to tradition, the Atharvaveda was mainly composed by two groups of rishis known as the Atharvanas and the Angirasa, hence its oldest name is Atharvangirasa. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/meditations/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/meditations/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 10:29:39 +0530 Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation. Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/first-and-last-freedom/ https://www.shastras.com/jiddu-krishnamurti/first-and-last-freedom/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 10:26:54 +0530 Awareness is entirely different. Awareness is observation without condemnation. Awareness brings understanding, because there is no condemnation or identification but silent observation. If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.