Word: krishnamurti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knowledge that when anything of a finer nature, or loftier thoughts, is presented to a small-souled person it is met with hostility and contempt. Your Dec. 30 reviewer of Candles in the Sun is no exception. He can no more understand theosophy, the works of Annie Besant and Krishnamurti, than a primitive man could understand Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays. As for the author of the book, the less said about her the better...
...stimulus in Theosophy. In the cult's early exciting days its devotees expected that a great spirit was about to be reincarnated. Mrs. Annie Besant-Socialist, organizer of the Theosophical Society, and pal of Bernard Shaw -undertook to conjure up the great spirit. He was an Indian named Krishnamurti. When Emy met him, it was a case of love at first sight-and of mistaken identity. She can write today: "I who am not in the least clairvoyant could see the face of the Lord through the face of Krishna...
...World Mother. Krishnamurti, then 14, seems to have been merely an amiable, moderately well-behaved schoolboy of the Indian middle class. He was a little slow in school, and for his slowness he was often caned, but he had a wonderful "aura"-the multicolored emanation that Theosophists saw gleaming about each other. Krishnamurti displayed big black eyes and a set of irrefutable (because unstatable) notions of a vaguely ethical tinge; e.g., "Truth being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized." He lived on vegetables, and on the front page, and the wonder is that he managed...
...Krishnamurti's conclusions originate from his insistence upon the necessity of tranquility for self-knowledge. This state implies the absence of escapes, what the author calls "veils over reality." Politics is one such veil. A mere play of causes and effects, says Krishnamurti, politics is absorbed in externalities which hide the truth from man, that truth which is beyond cause and effect. Worry is also a veil, because it occupies people's minds, spares them from discovering themselves. Also, claims the author, "one can truly communicate only when there is aloneness. Aloneness is the purgation of all motives...
...Krishnamurti overlooks the possibilities of possibility, the value of the future, man's concern for and with others, human development within the context of such extensions as politics, crowds, newspapers, and worry ("care"). Always, the greatest things come out of crisis and struggle. Realization and self-consciousness do not arise from comfort, from the present, from tranquility. The man who is frightened by himself, afraid to face his loneliness and his own self, flees to the consoling arms of tranquility and the tangibles of the present. But the seekers of the self--the self-conscious--grasp the future, appropriate their...