1 00:00:18,250 --> 00:00:21,520 All that we have invented, 2 00:00:21,650 --> 00:00:24,620 the symbols in the church, 3 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:26,630 the rituals, 4 00:00:27,590 --> 00:00:30,730 they are all put there by thought. 5 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,600 Thought has invented these things, 6 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:36,500 invented the savior, 7 00:00:36,540 --> 00:00:41,780 invented the temples in India and the contents of the temples. 8 00:00:42,580 --> 00:00:47,520 Thought has invented all these things called sacred. 9 00:00:47,650 --> 00:00:49,620 You can’t deny that. 10 00:00:50,550 --> 00:00:54,530 So thought in itself is not sacred. 11 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:01,570 And when thought invents God, God is not sacred. 12 00:01:02,570 --> 00:01:04,599 So – what is sacred? 13 00:01:06,740 --> 00:01:09,580 That can only be... 14 00:01:10,780 --> 00:01:13,610 understood or happen... 15 00:01:14,250 --> 00:01:16,830 when there is complete freedom... 16 00:01:17,130 --> 00:01:18,720 from fear, 17 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,050 from sorrow, 18 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,660 and when there is this sense of love... 19 00:01:24,730 --> 00:01:28,700 and compassion with its own intelligence. 20 00:01:28,770 --> 00:01:32,410 Then, when the mind is utterly still, 21 00:01:32,510 --> 00:01:36,570 that which is sacred can take place. 22 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:06,500 It was a late summer afternoon. 23 00:03:06,530 --> 00:03:10,400 Near the shore, a group of children were playing. 24 00:03:10,570 --> 00:03:13,610 One of the boys, though ragged and undernourished, 25 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:16,380 stood apart from the others. 26 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,550 He was described as having a special radiance. 27 00:03:20,580 --> 00:03:25,420 A pure and shining atmosphere surrounded him. 28 00:03:25,550 --> 00:03:29,360 Because of these qualities the child was singled out... 29 00:03:29,390 --> 00:03:34,400 and chosen to be the vehicle for the coming ‘World Teacher’. 30 00:03:35,170 --> 00:03:38,570 This discovery was not an isolated revelation... 31 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:43,440 for it was believed that humanity was entering a new age... 32 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:48,410 an age that would bring with it a new Messiah. 33 00:03:51,420 --> 00:03:53,450 During the early decades of the 19th century... 34 00:03:53,490 --> 00:03:58,630 science was beginning to replace religion as the savior of humanity. 35 00:03:59,390 --> 00:04:00,560 As the monolithic church splintered, 36 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,460 new organizations emerged... 37 00:04:02,490 --> 00:04:05,600 offering a balance between science and religion. 38 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:09,370 One of the many new groups, the Theosophical Society, 39 00:04:09,410 --> 00:04:12,380 spread rapidly throughout the world. 40 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,510 Founded by Russian born Helena Petrovna Blavatsky... 41 00:04:15,550 --> 00:04:18,450 and the American Henry Steel Olcott, 42 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:20,519 its objectives were to seek truth... 43 00:04:20,550 --> 00:04:22,550 of the ancient religions of the East, 44 00:04:22,590 --> 00:04:25,630 to investigate the unexplained laws of nature... 45 00:04:26,390 --> 00:04:29,400 and to promote universal brotherhood. 46 00:04:29,430 --> 00:04:32,570 So attractive were these ideals that by 1881... 47 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,600 the Society had become a worldwide institution... 48 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:39,640 with over 100,000 enthusiastic members. 49 00:04:42,380 --> 00:04:46,100 Helena Blavatsky was a deep student of metaphysical lore... 50 00:04:46,170 --> 00:04:47,440 and was sought after... 51 00:04:47,500 --> 00:04:51,220 by those who believed her to possess psychic powers. 52 00:04:51,230 --> 00:04:53,010 Derided by some as a charlatan, 53 00:04:53,140 --> 00:04:55,380 she was, however, a serious writer... 54 00:04:55,510 --> 00:04:58,400 and in 1888 published her greatest work: 55 00:04:58,430 --> 00:05:02,600 two tremendous volumes entitled ‘The Secret Doctrine’. 56 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,470 Annie Besant, a young journalist, 57 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:09,580 was asked to analyse the work for London’s Review of Reviews. 58 00:05:09,610 --> 00:05:13,510 Turning the pages, she was “dazzled by what she read”. 59 00:05:13,550 --> 00:05:16,050 To her, disjointed facts were now seen... 60 00:05:16,150 --> 00:05:18,450 as parts of a mighty whole... 61 00:05:18,490 --> 00:05:21,560 and the puzzles, riddles and problems of her life... 62 00:05:21,590 --> 00:05:23,590 seemed to disappear. 63 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:25,880 Within weeks... 64 00:05:25,970 --> 00:05:30,400 Annie Besant made a life long commitment to Theosophy. 65 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,940 This sudden step was not out of character... 66 00:05:33,970 --> 00:05:36,440 for the impetuous Mrs. Besant. 67 00:05:36,470 --> 00:05:38,480 She was already well known to Victorian England... 68 00:05:38,510 --> 00:05:41,610 as an orator, educator, energetic feminist... 69 00:05:41,650 --> 00:05:45,480 and a pioneer on behalf of the emerging labor movement. 70 00:05:45,550 --> 00:05:47,990 She organized a strike of match girls 71 00:05:48,090 --> 00:05:49,560 at Bryant and Mays factory. 72 00:05:49,660 --> 00:05:51,720 Her sense of social justice... 73 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,820 led her to become a Fabian Socialist... 74 00:05:53,910 --> 00:05:57,400 along with Sidney Webb, George Bernard Shaw... 75 00:05:57,430 --> 00:05:59,430 and Ramsey McDonald. 76 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:03,910 After Blavatsky’s death, 77 00:06:03,940 --> 00:06:06,540 Annie Besant became head of the Society... 78 00:06:06,580 --> 00:06:10,510 and the most influential force for the theosophical ideal. 79 00:06:10,580 --> 00:06:14,490 It was she who forged Blavatsky’s unwieldy philosophy... 80 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,420 into a popular movement. 81 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,530 Many of the world’s religions speak of a hero or savior... 82 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,530 who appears in a time of crisis to help mankind. 83 00:06:26,570 --> 00:06:29,470 In “The Secret Doctrine” Blavatsky described... 84 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:32,410 how such a teacher would define truth... 85 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:36,440 in terms suitable for a new civilization. 86 00:06:37,510 --> 00:06:41,480 Over the years this theme had been developing in Besant’s mind. 87 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,550 By 1900 she was convinced that time had come... 88 00:06:44,590 --> 00:06:47,660 for the reappearance of a great spiritual leader. 89 00:06:48,390 --> 00:06:52,460 Even now she was lecturing in India, Europe and the United States... 90 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:54,600 on the coming of a World Teacher. 91 00:06:54,630 --> 00:06:58,400 Expectations were spreading throughout the Society... 92 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,570 and thousands thronged to hear her lectures. 93 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:06,530 Charles Webster Leadbeater... 94 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,450 was another leading member of the society. 95 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,590 He and Besant worked closely together... 96 00:07:11,620 --> 00:07:13,650 and seemed to compliment each other... 97 00:07:13,690 --> 00:07:17,590 as Olcott and Blavatsky had done years earlier. 98 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:23,060 The year was 1909. 99 00:07:23,430 --> 00:07:25,600 C. W. Leadbeater had moved to India... 100 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:27,600 and was now living at Adyar, 101 00:07:27,630 --> 00:07:31,480 the Theosophical headquarters near Madras. 102 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,510 Each day, he would stroll with a group of friends... 103 00:07:35,550 --> 00:07:38,520 along the beach on the Bay of Bengal. 104 00:07:38,550 --> 00:07:44,590 It was there, that the young Jiddu Krishnamurti was discovered. 105 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:51,500 In spite of the child’s thin, uncared-for appearance, 106 00:07:51,530 --> 00:07:54,600 Leadbeater saw a quality so remarkable... 107 00:07:54,670 --> 00:07:57,540 that he announced, that this Brahmin boy... 108 00:07:57,570 --> 00:08:00,610 would fulfill the long awaited prophecy. 109 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:02,190 Krishnamurti... 110 00:08:02,260 --> 00:08:07,520 was to be prepared as the vehicle for the world teacher. 111 00:08:12,590 --> 00:08:17,160 The child’s mother, Sanjeevamma, had died some years earlier... 112 00:08:17,220 --> 00:08:19,180 and the 14-year-old boy had come to live... 113 00:08:19,270 --> 00:08:20,970 with his father and three brothers... 114 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,700 just outside the Society’s compound. 115 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,570 The dreamy boy suffered from malaria, 116 00:08:26,610 --> 00:08:29,610 and illness often kept him from school. 117 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:31,310 He was unassuming... 118 00:08:31,420 --> 00:08:34,650 and yielded easily to the suggestions of others. 119 00:08:35,419 --> 00:08:37,590 He seemed to live in another world. 120 00:08:37,620 --> 00:08:41,460 Often oblivious to what was going on around him. 121 00:08:41,490 --> 00:08:44,590 There was a curious emptiness. 122 00:08:48,230 --> 00:08:51,440 Krishnamurti and his younger brother, Nityananda, 123 00:08:51,530 --> 00:08:53,020 were especially close. 124 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:57,060 And when told of the opportunity of being prepared for great things, 125 00:08:57,140 --> 00:09:01,550 he refused unless Nitya could be with him. 126 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:06,490 On November 27, 1909, 127 00:09:06,650 --> 00:09:08,750 Annie Besant returned to India... 128 00:09:08,850 --> 00:09:11,590 and met the brothers for the first time. 129 00:09:11,630 --> 00:09:13,460 An affectionate bond was formed, 130 00:09:13,550 --> 00:09:16,530 and she became to the shy Krishnamurti... 131 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:19,600 a mother, teacher, and friend. 132 00:09:19,670 --> 00:09:24,540 To Annie Besant the responsibility for guiding the boy’s future... 133 00:09:24,570 --> 00:09:26,710 became a sacred trust. 134 00:09:28,580 --> 00:09:29,860 It was decided that... 135 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,480 the time had come to introduce Krishnamurti to the world. 136 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:37,460 For this purpose the Order of the Star in the East was formed. 137 00:09:37,490 --> 00:09:39,560 With Krishnamurti as its nominal head... 138 00:09:39,590 --> 00:09:42,430 and under the guidance of Annie Besant, 139 00:09:42,460 --> 00:09:44,080 the Order hoped to prepare its members... 140 00:09:44,170 --> 00:09:48,540 to accept the world teacher and his message. 141 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:53,470 During the theosophical convention held in Benares that year... 142 00:09:53,510 --> 00:09:57,480 nearly 400 new members joined the Order of the Star. 143 00:09:57,510 --> 00:09:59,450 A glorious future was foreseen... 144 00:09:59,540 --> 00:10:03,420 as members spoke of ‘the Second Coming’. 145 00:10:03,450 --> 00:10:07,420 In a wave of emotion the new members fell at the boy’s feet. 146 00:10:07,460 --> 00:10:10,560 And Mrs. Besant publicly announced that Krishnamurti... 147 00:10:10,590 --> 00:10:14,670 was to indeed become the vehicle for the world teacher. 148 00:10:14,700 --> 00:10:18,600 At the end of 1911 the mould had been cast... 149 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:23,440 and the destiny of the young boy seemed assured. 150 00:10:25,580 --> 00:10:30,450 Narianiah, the boys’ father, was not as easily convinced. 151 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,590 This deification might make him the laughing stock of India... 152 00:10:33,620 --> 00:10:37,410 and he threatened to deprive Mrs. Besant of their custody. 153 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:38,820 She quickly intervened... 154 00:10:38,910 --> 00:10:42,430 by describing the advantages of an English education... 155 00:10:42,460 --> 00:10:44,100 and stressed the special advantage... 156 00:10:44,180 --> 00:10:47,640 of his sons becoming Oxford graduates. 157 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:54,480 On January 19, 1912, Narianiah signed a document... 158 00:10:54,510 --> 00:10:58,680 allowing Krishnamurti and Nitya to be taken to England. 159 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,300 He was unaware that it would be 10 years... 160 00:11:01,410 --> 00:11:03,590 and involve a lengthy lawsuit... 161 00:11:03,620 --> 00:11:06,660 before his sons were to return. 162 00:11:19,710 --> 00:11:24,020 In England, news of their arrival spread quickly... 163 00:11:24,140 --> 00:11:25,950 and a large crowd was on hand... 164 00:11:26,030 --> 00:11:29,520 to greet the party at Charing Cross Station. 165 00:11:29,550 --> 00:11:33,690 An English Theosophist described Krishnamurti on arrival as... 166 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:39,560 “an odd figure with long black hair falling almost to his shoulders... 167 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:45,440 and enormous dark eyes which had a vacant look in them.” 168 00:11:51,710 --> 00:11:53,680 When I went to Europe for the first time... 169 00:11:53,710 --> 00:11:57,520 I lived among people who were wealthy and well educated, 170 00:11:57,550 --> 00:12:01,490 who held positions of social authority. 171 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:05,630 I walked about the streets, watching the faces of people. 172 00:12:05,660 --> 00:12:07,630 I went to theatres. 173 00:12:07,660 --> 00:12:12,600 I saw how people amused themselves trying to forget their unhappiness. 174 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:16,710 I saw people with political, social or religious power. 175 00:12:16,740 --> 00:12:21,450 I watched the amusements of the young people. 176 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:23,580 I saw people who desire to serve... 177 00:12:23,620 --> 00:12:27,650 going into those quarters where the poor and degraded live. 178 00:12:27,690 --> 00:12:29,690 They desired to help... 179 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:33,490 but were themselves helpless. 180 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:39,070 How can you cure another of disease if you are yourself a victim... 181 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:41,100 of that disease? 182 00:12:42,470 --> 00:12:43,710 I questioned everything... 183 00:12:43,740 --> 00:12:47,710 because I wanted to find out for myself. 184 00:12:50,610 --> 00:12:52,960 Annie Besant gave 3 stirring lectures... 185 00:12:53,060 --> 00:12:55,450 at the Queen’s Hall in London. 186 00:12:55,490 --> 00:12:58,490 The movement was gathering force. 187 00:12:58,660 --> 00:13:00,150 When she returned to India... 188 00:13:00,220 --> 00:13:03,660 the boy’s education began under a series of tutors. 189 00:13:03,700 --> 00:13:05,370 The young man was constantly... 190 00:13:05,420 --> 00:13:08,570 surrounded by teachers and attentive followers. 191 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:13,570 Never allowed to be alone, he longed for a more normal life. 192 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,480 He grew dissatisfied... 193 00:13:15,510 --> 00:13:20,480 and lost all interest in the role he was being prepared for. 194 00:13:23,490 --> 00:13:27,560 In the summer of 1914, England plunged into the Great War. 195 00:13:27,590 --> 00:13:31,630 Communications collapsed and the boy’s seclusion intensified. 196 00:13:31,660 --> 00:13:34,730 Krishnamurti became more and more restless. 197 00:13:35,470 --> 00:13:38,570 Annie Besant wrote and reminded him as she often did, 198 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:42,640 that his happiness would lie only in the work ahead. 199 00:13:42,670 --> 00:13:45,930 Though he felt a deep love and loyalty for Mrs. Besant, 200 00:13:46,010 --> 00:13:50,620 inwardly a quiet revolution was unfolding. 201 00:13:53,620 --> 00:13:57,630 I have long been in revolt from all things. 202 00:13:57,660 --> 00:14:01,560 From the authority of others. From the instruction of others. 203 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,330 From the knowledge of others. 204 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,190 I would not accept anything as truth... 205 00:14:07,260 --> 00:14:10,630 until I found the truth for myself. 206 00:14:11,290 --> 00:14:13,060 I never opposed the ideas of others... 207 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,550 but I would not accept their authority... 208 00:14:15,580 --> 00:14:17,630 or their theory of life. 209 00:14:18,270 --> 00:14:20,720 Until I was in that state of revolt, 210 00:14:20,750 --> 00:14:24,070 until I became dissatisfied with everything, 211 00:14:24,170 --> 00:14:28,530 with every creed, with every dogma and belief, 212 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:31,770 I was not able to find the truth. 213 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:39,540 The boys worked hard to pass their college entrance examinations. 214 00:14:39,570 --> 00:14:41,540 Nitya had little difficulty, 215 00:14:41,580 --> 00:14:44,680 but Krishnamurti was a slow and indifferent student. 216 00:14:44,710 --> 00:14:47,520 To everyone’s disappointment it became clear... 217 00:14:47,550 --> 00:14:51,690 that he would not be accepted by either Oxford or Cambridge. 218 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:56,690 The close of the war in 1918... 219 00:14:56,730 --> 00:15:00,630 brought increased activity among Theosophists. 220 00:15:00,670 --> 00:15:03,570 In India, Annie Besant was deeply absorbed... 221 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,640 in problems of education and political action. 222 00:15:06,670 --> 00:15:09,640 She was in the forefront of the struggle for Indian independence... 223 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:11,710 along with Gandhi and others. 224 00:15:11,750 --> 00:15:14,480 But in her lectures she continued to proclaim... 225 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:16,490 the importance of the world teacher... 226 00:15:16,590 --> 00:15:20,490 and his message for humanity. 227 00:15:20,660 --> 00:15:23,590 Krishnamurti was maturing slowly... 228 00:15:23,630 --> 00:15:26,630 and after a ten-year absence from his native country, 229 00:15:26,660 --> 00:15:30,500 it was decided that his work would begin at Adyar. 230 00:15:30,530 --> 00:15:33,700 In late December the brothers arrived in Bombay. 231 00:15:33,740 --> 00:15:37,480 For Mrs. Besant, the long awaited day had finally come... 232 00:15:37,510 --> 00:15:40,580 as the two brothers, who “left as boys, 233 00:15:40,610 --> 00:15:42,650 returned as men.” 234 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,720 When I came to India I saw that the people there... 235 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,590 were deluding themselves equally, 236 00:15:53,630 --> 00:15:55,730 carrying on the same old traditions, 237 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,600 treating women cruelly. 238 00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:01,740 At the same time they called themselves very religious... 239 00:16:01,770 --> 00:16:04,740 and painted their faces with ashes. 240 00:16:05,540 --> 00:16:09,610 In India, they may have the most sacred books in the world, 241 00:16:09,650 --> 00:16:12,480 they may have the greatest philosophies, 242 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:15,550 they may have constructed wonderful temples in the past, 243 00:16:15,590 --> 00:16:20,660 but none of these was able to give me what I wanted. 244 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:26,250 As head of the Order of the Star... 245 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:29,220 the shy young man plunged into his work. 246 00:16:29,250 --> 00:16:32,450 He wrote numerous books and articles for Star publications. 247 00:16:33,190 --> 00:16:37,330 There were lectures to give and meetings to attend. 248 00:16:39,260 --> 00:16:41,230 The brothers undertook a heavy schedule... 249 00:16:41,260 --> 00:16:45,400 speaking in India, England, Australia and Europe. 250 00:16:47,170 --> 00:16:50,210 These travels became a heavy strain on Nitya. 251 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:54,280 He became ill and was diagnosed as having tuberculosis. 252 00:16:54,310 --> 00:16:56,210 California was suggested as having... 253 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,350 a healthful climate for consumptives... 254 00:16:58,380 --> 00:17:01,320 and an ideal place for recovery. 255 00:17:01,350 --> 00:17:03,820 In the summer of 1922, 256 00:17:03,900 --> 00:17:06,260 the loan of a small cottage in the Ojai Valley... 257 00:17:06,290 --> 00:17:11,230 brought the young men to America for the first time. 258 00:17:11,300 --> 00:17:13,109 Writing to Mrs. Besant, 259 00:17:13,210 --> 00:17:16,400 Nitya described their new surroundings: 260 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:19,770 “In a long narrow valley of apricot orchards... 261 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,310 and orange groves, is our home. 262 00:17:22,339 --> 00:17:27,490 And the hot sun shines day after day to remind us of Adyar. 263 00:17:27,660 --> 00:17:32,130 The Indians call our valley the Ojai, or the nest. 264 00:17:32,220 --> 00:17:37,200 And for centuries they must have sought it as a refuge.” 265 00:17:37,430 --> 00:17:40,680 For a time Nitya seemed to recover. 266 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:44,270 But perhaps best of all, they were alone. 267 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:47,990 Privacy had been a luxury denied them since childhood. 268 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:50,710 But now in the silence of the valley... 269 00:17:50,790 --> 00:17:54,250 Krishnamurti had an opportunity to be with himself. 270 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,180 He walked alone in the hills, 271 00:17:56,270 --> 00:18:00,260 climbing through orange groves and scrub brush. 272 00:18:00,420 --> 00:18:04,290 As the days passed, a strange uneasiness seized him. 273 00:18:04,330 --> 00:18:08,780 He became ill and complained of intense pain and suffocating heat. 274 00:18:08,890 --> 00:18:10,560 There were periods of unconsciousness... 275 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,370 as the strange process reached its peak. 276 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,440 Agitated and feverish, he insisted on walking alone... 277 00:18:18,210 --> 00:18:19,240 but was urged instead... 278 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:24,380 to rest under a young pepper tree that stood near the cottage. 279 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,390 It was there, in the stillness of the night, 280 00:18:28,420 --> 00:18:31,430 that a transcendent event took place... 281 00:18:31,460 --> 00:18:36,200 that shook his life to its foundations. 282 00:18:43,270 --> 00:18:47,280 I could feel the wind passing through the trees, 283 00:18:47,310 --> 00:18:50,350 and the little ant on the blade of grass. 284 00:18:51,220 --> 00:18:53,380 I could feel the birds, 285 00:18:53,450 --> 00:18:55,320 the dust. 286 00:18:56,220 --> 00:18:59,320 And every noise was a part of me. 287 00:19:00,430 --> 00:19:02,460 I was in everything. 288 00:19:03,300 --> 00:19:05,330 Or rather everything... 289 00:19:05,370 --> 00:19:07,230 was in me. 290 00:19:08,340 --> 00:19:10,370 I was supremely happy... 291 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:12,270 for I had seen. 292 00:19:13,210 --> 00:19:16,210 Nothing could ever be the same. 293 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:20,380 I have drunk at the clear and pure waters of the fountain of life. 294 00:19:20,420 --> 00:19:23,420 And my thirst was appeased. 295 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:26,360 Never more could I be thirsty. 296 00:19:26,390 --> 00:19:30,360 Never more could I be in utter darkness. 297 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:34,300 I have touched the compassion, 298 00:19:34,330 --> 00:19:38,340 which heals all sorrow and suffering. 299 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,210 It is not for myself... 300 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,280 but for the world. 301 00:19:53,220 --> 00:19:55,220 To describe his new perceptions... 302 00:19:55,250 --> 00:19:58,460 Krishnamurti embarked on a world wide speaking tour. 303 00:19:59,230 --> 00:20:01,430 The change was unmistakable. 304 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,270 Everywhere, among all people, 305 00:20:10,310 --> 00:20:13,340 there is a search for something hidden. 306 00:20:13,380 --> 00:20:15,480 For some realization... 307 00:20:16,350 --> 00:20:18,390 which will give greater knowledge, 308 00:20:18,630 --> 00:20:20,170 greater vision, 309 00:20:20,230 --> 00:20:22,250 greater understanding. 310 00:20:22,350 --> 00:20:25,490 And this the people call ‘truth’. 311 00:20:26,390 --> 00:20:30,400 They think that truth lies hidden in some distant place, 312 00:20:30,430 --> 00:20:32,270 away from life, 313 00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:34,030 away from joy, 314 00:20:34,270 --> 00:20:36,240 away from sorrow. 315 00:20:37,340 --> 00:20:40,340 But truth is life itself. 316 00:20:42,210 --> 00:20:45,210 And with an understanding of life, 317 00:20:45,250 --> 00:20:49,320 there is born an understanding of truth. 318 00:21:01,370 --> 00:21:03,440 While traveling, a sudden hemorrhage... 319 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:05,410 brought back fears for Nitya’s health. 320 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,280 He was weak, in high fever and racked with coughing. 321 00:21:09,310 --> 00:21:11,410 It was decided that the brothers should again return... 322 00:21:11,650 --> 00:21:14,380 to the dry climate of the Ojai Valley. 323 00:21:14,410 --> 00:21:17,350 Once in California Nitya seemed to improve. 324 00:21:17,390 --> 00:21:19,590 And when Mrs. Besant cabled asking... 325 00:21:19,660 --> 00:21:21,260 that Krishnamurti come to India... 326 00:21:21,290 --> 00:21:23,390 for Theosophy’s Jubilee Convention, 327 00:21:23,430 --> 00:21:26,230 he reluctantly agreed. 328 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:30,370 The bond between the brothers had grown stronger than ever. 329 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,110 There was unquestioning faith that... 330 00:21:32,140 --> 00:21:34,410 Nitya was essential to the work ahead... 331 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:38,240 and because of this, his life would be spared. 332 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:42,310 While enroute, a cable arrived saying that Nitya had influenza. 333 00:21:42,350 --> 00:21:48,260 A later wire read, “Flu rather more serious, pray for me.” 334 00:21:49,360 --> 00:21:51,260 On the 13th of November, 335 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:54,300 as the ship entered the Suez Canal, 336 00:21:54,330 --> 00:21:58,300 a telegram arrived announcing Nitya’s death. 337 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,280 The news broke Krishnamurti completely. 338 00:22:06,310 --> 00:22:10,250 It did more. His entire philosophy of life, 339 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,280 the implicit faith in the future... 340 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,520 and Nitya’s vital part in it all, 341 00:22:15,250 --> 00:22:18,520 appeared to be shattered at that moment. 342 00:22:23,230 --> 00:22:24,360 An old dream... 343 00:22:25,230 --> 00:22:26,370 is dead... 344 00:22:26,470 --> 00:22:29,500 and a new one is being born. 345 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,340 A new vision is coming into being. 346 00:22:33,370 --> 00:22:37,530 And a new consciousness is being unfolded. 347 00:22:38,070 --> 00:22:41,380 I know now, with greater certainty than ever before, 348 00:22:41,420 --> 00:22:44,390 that there is real beauty in life. 349 00:22:44,420 --> 00:22:46,320 Real happiness... 350 00:22:46,420 --> 00:22:50,330 that cannot be shattered by any physical happening. 351 00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:52,330 A great strength... 352 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:56,400 which cannot be weakened by any passing events. 353 00:22:56,900 --> 00:22:58,470 And a great love, 354 00:22:59,270 --> 00:23:01,240 which is permanent, 355 00:23:01,270 --> 00:23:02,510 imperishable... 356 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,310 and unconquerable. 357 00:23:08,730 --> 00:23:10,700 By the time he reached Madras... 358 00:23:10,730 --> 00:23:14,510 his face was quiet and radiant. 359 00:23:14,970 --> 00:23:17,370 The Jubilee Convention of 1925... 360 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,580 celebrated 50 years in the life of the Theosophical Society. 361 00:23:21,610 --> 00:23:24,150 Thousands attended the four-day gatherings... 362 00:23:24,230 --> 00:23:25,810 and the events were eagerly reported... 363 00:23:25,890 --> 00:23:28,560 by newspapers around the world. 364 00:23:28,590 --> 00:23:31,560 A Star Congress followed the convention. 365 00:23:31,590 --> 00:23:37,500 By this time the Order of the Star had grown to over 45,000 members. 366 00:23:39,370 --> 00:23:42,640 Under the branches of Adyar’s enormous banyan tree... 367 00:23:42,670 --> 00:23:46,510 Krishnamurti spoke of the world teacher. 368 00:23:46,740 --> 00:23:50,550 His face was powerful and stern at the twilight, 369 00:23:50,580 --> 00:23:54,720 his eyes half veiled, as if looking inward. 370 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,720 As he spoke, a deep silence spread through the audience. 371 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,660 Some thought they saw a light envelope him. 372 00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:04,860 And many believed that they were in the presence... 373 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,570 of the Messiah himself. 374 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,670 The young man was becoming the focus of deep divisions. 375 00:24:11,710 --> 00:24:14,610 While thousands accepted him as the World Teacher... 376 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:19,750 others were disturbed by the adoration and attention given him. 377 00:24:21,220 --> 00:24:22,880 In the Netherlands, some years earlier, 378 00:24:22,980 --> 00:24:26,520 the Baron Phillip van Pallandt had given his ancestral home, 379 00:24:26,550 --> 00:24:29,220 the Castle Eerde, to the Order of the Star. 380 00:24:29,310 --> 00:24:33,350 5.000 wooded acres surrounded the 18th century buildings. 381 00:24:33,380 --> 00:24:35,280 The castle had been transformed... 382 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:40,260 into a meeting place where small groups gathered yearly. 383 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:46,260 The change that was taking place in Krishnamurti... 384 00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:48,010 was to intensify the following week... 385 00:24:48,090 --> 00:24:51,540 at the Ommen Star camp of 1926. 386 00:24:52,300 --> 00:24:54,270 Close to the Castle Eerde, 387 00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:59,280 the Ommen Camp attracted over 2,000 people of every nationality. 388 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,520 There were huge tents for meetings and for meals. 389 00:25:03,550 --> 00:25:05,390 Lectures were given. 390 00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:06,550 And every evening... 391 00:25:06,580 --> 00:25:12,330 Krishnamurti lit a bonfire and spoke to the gathering. 392 00:25:16,300 --> 00:25:19,500 In order to be happy, need we have religions? 393 00:25:19,530 --> 00:25:21,370 In order to love, 394 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,270 need we build temples? 395 00:25:24,310 --> 00:25:28,350 Truth cannot be found in the dark sanctuary of temples... 396 00:25:28,380 --> 00:25:32,420 nor in the well-lit halls of organized societies. 397 00:25:32,450 --> 00:25:37,420 Neither can it be found in books nor in ceremonies. 398 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:41,020 Go down to the sea where the breezes are blowing... 399 00:25:41,110 --> 00:25:44,330 and the waves are breaking over each other. 400 00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:47,380 You want to gather and bind all that beauty 401 00:25:47,470 --> 00:25:49,470 into a narrow temple? 402 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,980 Do not allow your mind or your heart... 403 00:25:53,070 --> 00:25:55,310 to be bound by anything... 404 00:25:55,340 --> 00:25:56,510 or anyone. 405 00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:58,450 If you do... 406 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,350 you will establish another religion, 407 00:26:01,380 --> 00:26:03,290 another temple. 408 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,360 You must not create little gods... 409 00:26:06,390 --> 00:26:09,290 and worship at little shrines. 410 00:26:09,430 --> 00:26:12,530 Who wants to worship by the light of one candle, 411 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,530 when you can have the sun? 412 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,750 It was increasingly difficult to reconcile... 413 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,410 Krishnamurti‘s vision of truth... 414 00:26:27,450 --> 00:26:30,980 with the forms and structures not only of Theosophy, 415 00:26:31,060 --> 00:26:33,420 but all organized religions. 416 00:26:33,450 --> 00:26:36,320 His rejection of spiritual authority was a threat... 417 00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:39,330 to the Society and its life long members. 418 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:41,410 There was open hostility, as the organization... 419 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,400 seemed to be pulling apart. 420 00:26:43,430 --> 00:26:47,300 Lines were drawn, as some stood firmly with him, 421 00:26:47,340 --> 00:26:51,410 while others clung to their cherished beliefs. 422 00:26:52,410 --> 00:26:54,350 Lady Emily Lutyens, 423 00:26:54,380 --> 00:26:57,260 who had been close to Krishnamurti since 1911, 424 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,870 shared the bewilderment that many felt. 425 00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:01,870 “How strange it seems,” she said, 426 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,390 “that for 17 years we have expected a World Teacher... 427 00:27:05,430 --> 00:27:09,430 and now when he speaks we are hurt or angry. 428 00:27:09,460 --> 00:27:12,370 He is making us do our own work... 429 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:17,440 and that is the last thing we expected of him.” 430 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,320 In May of 1928, the First Ojai Star Camp was held... 431 00:27:25,350 --> 00:27:28,420 under the evergreen oak trees of Southern California. 432 00:27:28,450 --> 00:27:31,420 But with each new talk, each meeting, 433 00:27:31,460 --> 00:27:35,390 the divisions became more apparent. 434 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,220 In failing health, Annie Besant... 435 00:27:39,330 --> 00:27:42,300 was forced to cancel her public engagements. 436 00:27:42,330 --> 00:27:46,310 Yet she still tried desperately to reconcile theosophy... 437 00:27:46,340 --> 00:27:48,510 with what Krishnamurti was saying. 438 00:27:48,540 --> 00:27:51,480 She quoted ancient Hindu scriptures saying... 439 00:27:51,510 --> 00:27:55,420 all paths lead to the same spiritual goal. 440 00:27:55,450 --> 00:28:00,420 But in spite of her efforts the divisions widened. 441 00:28:01,390 --> 00:28:03,460 There were no gentle platitudes. 442 00:28:03,490 --> 00:28:06,860 There was to be no uniting of existing religions. 443 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,430 Ceremonies and organized religions, he said, were a hindrance, 444 00:28:10,470 --> 00:28:13,400 a distraction from the truth. 445 00:28:14,110 --> 00:28:15,440 He offered no method. 446 00:28:15,470 --> 00:28:17,380 There were no steps to follow... 447 00:28:17,410 --> 00:28:20,550 no system that ensured spiritual progress. 448 00:28:21,310 --> 00:28:24,320 His vision of truth was absolute. 449 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:34,900 In the Netherlands, on August 3rd, 1929, 450 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,430 at the Ommen Gathering, 451 00:28:36,460 --> 00:28:40,500 in the presence of Mrs. Besant and over 3,000 Star members, 452 00:28:40,540 --> 00:28:44,340 Krishnamurti dissolved the Order of The Star, 453 00:28:44,370 --> 00:28:48,480 freeing himself from all claims made for him. 454 00:28:54,390 --> 00:28:56,490 I maintain that truth... 455 00:28:57,390 --> 00:28:59,390 is a pathless land. 456 00:29:00,330 --> 00:29:03,360 and you cannot approach it by any path... 457 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:04,560 whatsoever, 458 00:29:05,300 --> 00:29:06,470 by any religion, 459 00:29:07,300 --> 00:29:08,440 by any sect. 460 00:29:09,500 --> 00:29:11,440 That is my point of view. 461 00:29:11,470 --> 00:29:14,440 And I adhere to that absolutely... 462 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,540 and unconditionally. 463 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,310 Truth, 464 00:29:19,350 --> 00:29:20,580 being limitless, 465 00:29:21,450 --> 00:29:23,320 unconditioned, 466 00:29:23,490 --> 00:29:27,360 is unapproachable by any path whatsoever. 467 00:29:27,390 --> 00:29:29,460 It cannot be organized. 468 00:29:29,530 --> 00:29:31,530 Nor should any organization be formed... 469 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:36,570 to lead or coerce people along any particular path. 470 00:29:38,300 --> 00:29:41,310 If an organization be created for this purpose... 471 00:29:41,340 --> 00:29:43,310 it becomes a crutch, 472 00:29:43,410 --> 00:29:45,700 a weakness, a bondage... 473 00:29:45,790 --> 00:29:47,920 and must cripple the individual... 474 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,750 and prevent him from the discovery... 475 00:29:49,780 --> 00:29:54,320 of that absolute unconditioned truth. 476 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:00,330 You can form other organizations and expect someone else. 477 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,470 With that I am not concerned. 478 00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:04,530 My only concern... 479 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,340 is to set man... 480 00:30:07,370 --> 00:30:08,540 absolutely... 481 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,480 and unconditionally... 482 00:30:12,410 --> 00:30:13,580 free. 483 00:30:43,310 --> 00:30:44,450 All religions... 484 00:30:45,550 --> 00:30:49,550 have always said there is only our path, 485 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:51,490 our saviour, 486 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:54,490 our system, 487 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,430 our belief, 488 00:30:56,460 --> 00:30:57,560 our rituals, 489 00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:03,470 and only through those you will find salvation. 490 00:31:04,340 --> 00:31:06,540 This has been the constant... 491 00:31:07,410 --> 00:31:08,510 song... 492 00:31:08,540 --> 00:31:10,480 of all religions. 493 00:31:14,380 --> 00:31:17,490 And I happen to have said... 494 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,320 many, many years ago, which is... 495 00:31:20,350 --> 00:31:21,490 which is so, 496 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,360 which has so, 497 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,330 true, 498 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,330 that there is no path to truth. 499 00:31:28,370 --> 00:31:32,440 Truth according to them is a fixed point. 500 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,960 And if it is a fixed point you can have a path... 501 00:31:35,990 --> 00:31:38,480 as many paths as you like. 502 00:31:38,510 --> 00:31:43,350 But if it is not a fixed point, it’s a living thing, moving, 503 00:31:43,380 --> 00:31:46,480 – movement in the sense, in the world... 504 00:31:46,510 --> 00:31:49,590 of no time, which is a different matter – 505 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,530 naturally there is no path to it. 506 00:31:54,330 --> 00:31:55,330 But you see, 507 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:59,370 we don’t want such a dangerous... 508 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,340 outlook. 509 00:32:03,370 --> 00:32:05,610 We want everything fixed. 510 00:32:06,510 --> 00:32:10,550 We want every object to be final. 511 00:33:04,610 --> 00:33:08,450 I would like to go into the question... 512 00:33:10,350 --> 00:33:12,450 of what does it mean, 513 00:33:13,590 --> 00:33:16,360 that a human being, 514 00:33:16,490 --> 00:33:18,490 should bring about... 515 00:33:19,530 --> 00:33:24,430 a deep, profound change in himself. 516 00:33:27,500 --> 00:33:30,540 We are asking, is it possible... 517 00:33:31,410 --> 00:33:32,580 to bring about... 518 00:33:33,410 --> 00:33:37,520 a fundamental, psychological revolution? 519 00:33:39,620 --> 00:33:42,390 A deep, abiding, 520 00:33:42,620 --> 00:33:45,360 irrevocable change, 521 00:33:45,530 --> 00:33:47,430 transformation. 522 00:33:49,460 --> 00:33:52,500 One has lived as a limited, 523 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,470 contained, 524 00:33:55,540 --> 00:33:57,370 narrow, 525 00:33:57,570 --> 00:33:59,410 individual. 526 00:34:00,380 --> 00:34:02,550 And it is very, very difficult... 527 00:34:02,580 --> 00:34:04,450 to see the truth... 528 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,350 that you are the rest of mankind. 529 00:34:08,590 --> 00:34:10,420 That in you... 530 00:34:10,449 --> 00:34:12,489 is the whole of man. 531 00:34:15,489 --> 00:34:16,630 That is, 532 00:34:17,460 --> 00:34:20,370 you as a human being... 533 00:34:20,530 --> 00:34:23,370 are part of the world. 534 00:34:25,510 --> 00:34:27,570 You are the world. 535 00:34:29,380 --> 00:34:30,480 Not an idea, 536 00:34:31,510 --> 00:34:34,380 not something that intellectually, 537 00:34:34,420 --> 00:34:38,489 has been put together by reason, and says "yes, quite right". 538 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,590 But the reality of the truth of it, 539 00:34:43,530 --> 00:34:50,370 that you represent, as a human being, the rest of humanity. 540 00:34:51,370 --> 00:34:52,500 You suffer. 541 00:34:53,540 --> 00:34:55,370 You are anxious. 542 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,410 You are uncertain, confused, 543 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,380 miserable, 544 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,350 fearful, 545 00:35:06,390 --> 00:35:07,620 hurt, everything. 546 00:35:08,390 --> 00:35:11,490 And every human being has this. 547 00:35:12,490 --> 00:35:14,600 So your consciousness... 548 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,530 is the consciousness of mankind. 549 00:35:20,470 --> 00:35:22,510 Now, it is possible... 550 00:35:22,570 --> 00:35:24,570 for sorrow to end. 551 00:35:25,540 --> 00:35:31,420 If there is the ending of sorrow in one human being... 552 00:35:32,420 --> 00:35:35,520 who is the representative of all humanity, 553 00:35:35,550 --> 00:35:41,490 that ending affects the whole of consciousness of man. 554 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,850 Don‘t accept what we are talking about. 555 00:35:45,970 --> 00:35:48,470 Find out. Test it. 556 00:35:50,570 --> 00:35:55,440 That means you have to be free to observe. 557 00:35:59,510 --> 00:36:01,800 To observe without any wish, 558 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,830 any longing, any pressure — you know. 559 00:36:04,910 --> 00:36:09,490 To observe as you observe a lovely flower. 560 00:36:13,460 --> 00:36:14,600 I wonder why... 561 00:36:15,570 --> 00:36:21,370 human beings throughout the world don’t see this simple fact, 562 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,650 that you cannot possibly have peace on earth... 563 00:36:26,450 --> 00:36:30,480 if you are nationalistically divided. 564 00:36:33,450 --> 00:36:35,590 We want order outside, 565 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,390 in the world. 566 00:36:38,430 --> 00:36:40,630 Politically, religiously, 567 00:36:41,430 --> 00:36:43,570 economically, socially. 568 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,590 In our relationship with each other, we want order. 569 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,540 We want some peace. 570 00:36:49,570 --> 00:36:52,580 We want some understanding. 571 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:54,610 And... 572 00:36:57,380 --> 00:37:02,490 if the inward psychological state is orderly, 573 00:37:03,590 --> 00:37:05,460 not conflicting, 574 00:37:05,490 --> 00:37:07,490 not contradicting, 575 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:12,430 if that state in consciousness is quiet, 576 00:37:12,470 --> 00:37:13,530 steady, 577 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,400 clear... 578 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,610 then you can bring about order in the world. 579 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:21,640 Now what we are trying to do... 580 00:37:22,380 --> 00:37:24,480 is try to bring order... 581 00:37:24,610 --> 00:37:26,480 legislatively, 582 00:37:26,620 --> 00:37:28,490 nationally, 583 00:37:28,550 --> 00:37:29,650 and so on. 584 00:37:30,390 --> 00:37:31,710 Order out there... 585 00:37:31,820 --> 00:37:33,460 in the world. 586 00:37:33,590 --> 00:37:37,500 Which has been proved over and over again... 587 00:37:37,530 --> 00:37:41,600 that it totally brings about disorder. 588 00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:44,500 That is why we are saying, 589 00:37:44,540 --> 00:37:46,670 the speaker – I am saying, 590 00:37:47,210 --> 00:37:48,510 that... 591 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,450 without inward order, 592 00:37:52,380 --> 00:37:53,580 that is, inward... 593 00:37:54,380 --> 00:37:56,550 order in consciousness, 594 00:37:57,620 --> 00:37:59,620 which is in a mess, 595 00:37:59,650 --> 00:38:02,460 which is in a contradiction, 596 00:38:02,490 --> 00:38:06,630 without bringing about order inwardly, psychologically, 597 00:38:06,660 --> 00:38:11,500 you cannot possibly have order outwardly. 598 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:15,510 And the crisis is there. 599 00:38:15,540 --> 00:38:18,410 We think the crisis is, 600 00:38:18,510 --> 00:38:19,650 national, 601 00:38:20,510 --> 00:38:23,520 economic, social, and so on. 602 00:38:23,650 --> 00:38:26,420 The crisis is not out there. 603 00:38:26,450 --> 00:38:28,560 The crisis is really inward. 604 00:38:28,590 --> 00:38:32,530 And we are unwilling to face that. 605 00:39:17,410 --> 00:39:18,650 It is our... 606 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,550 education, way of living, and tradition and so on, 607 00:39:23,590 --> 00:39:27,520 that something can be given to somebody else. 608 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,660 Jesus can give you salvation. 609 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,570 Or a guru can save you. 610 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,440 Or your wife can help you. 611 00:39:46,580 --> 00:39:49,400 That may be an old... 612 00:39:49,490 --> 00:39:52,290 worn out tradition to which we are clinging. 613 00:39:52,420 --> 00:39:55,690 It may be a wrong approach all together. 614 00:39:57,430 --> 00:39:59,560 You have understanding... 615 00:40:00,430 --> 00:40:01,560 and I haven’t got it. 616 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,600 And you are conditioned... 617 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:06,400 – excuse me – 618 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,470 You are conditioned... 619 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,510 in the idea that you can give it to me. 620 00:40:14,550 --> 00:40:15,680 Right? 621 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,550 That may not be the fact at all. 622 00:40:24,620 --> 00:40:28,460 Psychologically, inwardly, do you depend on somebody? 623 00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:33,670 You say, please help me to be free of my arrogance. 624 00:40:39,410 --> 00:40:41,580 Or in your relationship... 625 00:40:41,610 --> 00:40:44,580 you see the arrogance in you. 626 00:40:45,420 --> 00:40:46,580 It‘s gone. 627 00:40:49,620 --> 00:40:53,590 In our relationship with each other, 628 00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,430 and I am observing myself. 629 00:40:57,460 --> 00:41:01,430 And in that observation I discover that I am arrogant... 630 00:41:01,460 --> 00:41:03,500 in our relationship. 631 00:41:03,670 --> 00:41:09,540 So I am not dependent for you to point out to me my arrogance. 632 00:41:09,580 --> 00:41:12,510 I am already aware of it. 633 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,550 This is tremendously important sir. 634 00:41:16,580 --> 00:41:19,660 Nobody can give me intensity, 635 00:41:20,460 --> 00:41:22,530 the sense of beauty. 636 00:41:22,660 --> 00:41:24,660 I’m taking [that]. 637 00:41:25,630 --> 00:41:27,460 Then... 638 00:41:27,660 --> 00:41:30,430 I am on my own, you follow? 639 00:41:30,460 --> 00:41:32,670 Not isolated and all that. 640 00:41:32,700 --> 00:41:36,570 Then I have to work to find out. 641 00:41:40,550 --> 00:41:45,490 Then in the very working of it I have got the intensity. 642 00:41:45,620 --> 00:41:48,490 When I discard the tradition, 643 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,460 in which I have been brought up... 644 00:41:51,490 --> 00:41:54,560 that is to depend on somebody... 645 00:41:55,430 --> 00:41:59,570 and when I discarded it, I have to work at it, 646 00:41:59,700 --> 00:42:03,570 or I go down the drain, either way. 647 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:04,670 If I’m... 648 00:42:05,580 --> 00:42:07,440 If I discard that, 649 00:42:08,550 --> 00:42:11,480 I have already got the sense of... 650 00:42:11,620 --> 00:42:13,650 energy, intensity. 651 00:42:15,720 --> 00:42:19,660 Then I am not dependent on anybody. 652 00:42:56,500 --> 00:42:59,500 Can I observe myself... 653 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,440 through relationship? 654 00:43:03,580 --> 00:43:05,550 Can I know myself... 655 00:43:05,650 --> 00:43:08,480 fundamentally, basically, 656 00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,490 all the reactions, all the... 657 00:43:12,490 --> 00:43:14,720 the nuances, the subtleties... 658 00:43:15,460 --> 00:43:16,590 of myself, 659 00:43:16,660 --> 00:43:18,590 in relationship? 660 00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:25,540 Now, one’s relationship with another... 661 00:43:25,570 --> 00:43:27,640 is based on memory. 662 00:43:29,610 --> 00:43:30,710 Right? 663 00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,510 Would you accept it? 664 00:43:33,610 --> 00:43:39,250 On the various images, pictures, conclusions I have drawn... 665 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,690 about you and you have drawn about me. 666 00:43:45,460 --> 00:43:48,560 The various images that I have about you, 667 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:53,570 wife, husband, girl or boy or friend and so on. 668 00:43:53,630 --> 00:43:57,510 So there is always image making. 669 00:43:58,610 --> 00:43:59,610 Right? 670 00:44:00,510 --> 00:44:05,620 This is simple, this is normal, this actually goes on. 671 00:44:05,650 --> 00:44:10,620 When one is married, or lives with a girl or a boy... 672 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:17,660 every incident, every word, every action creates an image. 673 00:44:19,500 --> 00:44:20,500 No? 674 00:44:21,630 --> 00:44:24,540 Are we clear on this point? 675 00:44:24,700 --> 00:44:26,340 Don’t agree with me please. 676 00:44:26,430 --> 00:44:29,480 I am not trying to persuade you to anything. 677 00:44:29,510 --> 00:44:32,550 But actually you can see it for yourself. 678 00:44:32,610 --> 00:44:34,720 A word is registered. 679 00:44:35,450 --> 00:44:38,490 If it is pleasant you purr. It is nice. 680 00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,620 If it is unpleasant, you'll immediately shrink from it. 681 00:44:41,660 --> 00:44:43,630 And that creates an image. 682 00:44:43,660 --> 00:44:45,630 The pleasure creates an image. 683 00:44:45,660 --> 00:44:49,600 The shrinking, the withdrawal creates an image. 684 00:44:49,670 --> 00:44:53,740 So, our actual relationship with each other... 685 00:44:54,510 --> 00:44:56,540 is based on the... 686 00:44:58,510 --> 00:45:01,510 on various subtle forms... 687 00:45:01,550 --> 00:45:05,720 of pictures, images and conclusions. 688 00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,660 So when there is an image like that, 689 00:45:11,690 --> 00:45:13,690 she has and you have, 690 00:45:13,720 --> 00:45:17,530 then in that there is division. 691 00:45:19,570 --> 00:45:23,610 And then the whole conflict begins. 692 00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:27,540 Right? 693 00:45:27,570 --> 00:45:31,550 Where there is division between two images, 694 00:45:31,580 --> 00:45:34,690 there must be conflict, right? 695 00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,000 The Jew, the Arab, the Hindu, the Muslim, 696 00:45:39,030 --> 00:45:41,490 the Christian, the Communist, 697 00:45:41,530 --> 00:45:43,730 it is the same phenomenon. 698 00:45:45,500 --> 00:45:47,500 It is a basic law, 699 00:45:48,500 --> 00:45:54,710 where there is division between people there must be conflict. 700 00:45:55,540 --> 00:46:00,520 Can all this image making, 701 00:46:00,650 --> 00:46:02,520 tradition... 702 00:46:02,650 --> 00:46:05,620 all that end, 703 00:46:05,660 --> 00:46:08,630 without a single conflict. 704 00:46:09,490 --> 00:46:11,730 You understand my question? 705 00:46:14,670 --> 00:46:17,570 Are you interested in this? 706 00:46:19,610 --> 00:46:21,740 What will you pay for it? 707 00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,680 That's all you can do. 708 00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:30,620 By paying something you think you will get it. 709 00:46:33,620 --> 00:46:35,450 Now how can this... 710 00:46:36,130 --> 00:46:37,500 mechanism of... 711 00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:40,660 image making... 712 00:46:41,730 --> 00:46:45,740 – not just image making, the desire for certainty, the tradition, 713 00:46:45,770 --> 00:46:48,640 the whole structure of that – 714 00:46:48,670 --> 00:46:50,710 can that end? 715 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:52,680 Right? 716 00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,610 Are you asking that question? 717 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,740 Who is there to tell you what to do? 718 00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:17,740 See this, 719 00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:22,710 when you are children, the parents tell you what to do. 720 00:47:22,750 --> 00:47:27,720 That same mentality is cultivated right through life. 721 00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:30,520 In school you are told what to do, 722 00:47:30,550 --> 00:47:32,560 in college you are told what to do, 723 00:47:32,590 --> 00:47:33,620 in university. 724 00:47:33,660 --> 00:47:35,660 Right through life... 725 00:47:37,660 --> 00:47:39,600 somebody tells you... 726 00:47:39,630 --> 00:47:41,900 this is right, this is wrong, this should be done, 727 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,700 that should not be done. 728 00:47:44,990 --> 00:47:46,640 Which means what? 729 00:47:46,670 --> 00:47:48,510 There is no... 730 00:47:49,610 --> 00:47:51,610 self-investigation. 731 00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:58,020 There is no saying I am really the rest of mankind. 732 00:47:58,180 --> 00:47:59,260 Which you are! 733 00:48:00,690 --> 00:48:03,660 Because every human being right through the world, 734 00:48:03,690 --> 00:48:06,530 goes through a great deal of suffering, 735 00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:10,530 a great deal of pain, a great deal of anxiety, 736 00:48:10,570 --> 00:48:12,600 uncertain, confused, 737 00:48:12,670 --> 00:48:14,510 insecure, 738 00:48:14,570 --> 00:48:17,540 like you, like the rest of the world. 739 00:48:17,570 --> 00:48:19,540 We don’t accept that. 740 00:48:19,580 --> 00:48:20,580 We think, 741 00:48:20,610 --> 00:48:26,490 my suffering is totally separate from other people’s suffering. 742 00:48:26,590 --> 00:48:27,750 And so... 743 00:48:27,780 --> 00:48:30,590 we have this mentality... 744 00:48:32,590 --> 00:48:33,690 that... 745 00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:39,500 I must have somebody to tell me what to do. 746 00:48:40,740 --> 00:48:46,640 Right from the Pope, down to the poor Parish Priest. 747 00:50:14,510 --> 00:50:19,590 Really one should ask a question, “Why human beings... 748 00:50:19,620 --> 00:50:22,760 – though they have extraordinary knowledge – 749 00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:27,560 and yet nobody is willing to change. Why?” 750 00:50:28,660 --> 00:50:33,600 Is it that they find security in... 751 00:50:34,540 --> 00:50:37,510 in the habit, in the pattern? 752 00:50:37,570 --> 00:50:38,810 Your pattern, my pattern, 753 00:50:39,510 --> 00:50:42,360 the Christian pattern, the Hindu pattern, the Buddhist. 754 00:50:43,630 --> 00:50:46,750 They are all patterns, a way of thinking. 755 00:50:47,650 --> 00:50:48,650 So, 756 00:50:49,590 --> 00:50:52,590 patterns may be dangerous altogether, 757 00:50:52,620 --> 00:50:55,560 because they divide people. 758 00:50:55,790 --> 00:50:59,670 And religions have divided people. 759 00:50:59,700 --> 00:51:01,570 Their rituals, 760 00:51:01,630 --> 00:51:05,510 their beliefs, their faith, their saviors. 761 00:51:05,940 --> 00:51:09,610 Now, to break away from all that... 762 00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:11,810 requires intelligence, 763 00:51:12,610 --> 00:51:16,620 requires investigation, study. 764 00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:19,760 Nobody is willing to do that. 765 00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:08,050 From childhood... 766 00:53:08,550 --> 00:53:11,690 we are taught comparison. 767 00:53:12,550 --> 00:53:16,590 We say "you must be as clever as your brother". 768 00:53:16,730 --> 00:53:21,730 Or in school you better get better marks than somebody else. 769 00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:25,770 So you are always being compared. 770 00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:28,740 And you learn to compare. 771 00:53:28,810 --> 00:53:30,670 Don’t you? 772 00:53:30,770 --> 00:53:33,710 I say, don’t compare... 773 00:53:34,610 --> 00:53:36,750 yourself with anybody. 774 00:53:41,050 --> 00:53:42,770 Right? 775 00:53:43,100 --> 00:53:44,760 You heard that? 776 00:53:45,630 --> 00:53:46,760 Right? 777 00:53:48,430 --> 00:53:49,800 Now, 778 00:53:50,260 --> 00:53:52,570 why do you compare? 779 00:53:54,300 --> 00:53:57,240 To find out who is better. 780 00:53:57,270 --> 00:54:00,310 To find out if you are better. 781 00:54:01,340 --> 00:54:05,380 That is, you compare yourself with her. 782 00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,790 She is much more intelligent, 783 00:54:09,180 --> 00:54:11,980 more bright, more clever, 784 00:54:12,100 --> 00:54:15,480 and so in comparing yourself with her... 785 00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:17,360 you become dull. 786 00:54:21,370 --> 00:54:24,300 But if you don’t compare, are you dull? 787 00:54:24,340 --> 00:54:25,370 No. It just... 788 00:54:25,710 --> 00:54:29,680 Just listen, listen, listen carefully. 789 00:54:30,740 --> 00:54:36,790 In examinations in schools, all through life they are comparing. 790 00:54:36,820 --> 00:54:40,590 Tell your teacher, don’t compare. 791 00:54:44,690 --> 00:54:48,770 The relationship between the teacher and you... 792 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:52,320 she knows more than you do, right? 793 00:54:52,410 --> 00:54:54,210 Academically. 794 00:54:54,260 --> 00:54:55,770 Academically! 795 00:55:01,750 --> 00:55:03,620 By Jove! 796 00:55:10,420 --> 00:55:14,630 Academically you know more than he does. 797 00:55:15,060 --> 00:55:19,740 Now, she is teaching you about biology... 798 00:55:20,740 --> 00:55:22,610 and... 799 00:55:24,270 --> 00:55:26,780 she is giving you marks, 800 00:55:26,810 --> 00:55:27,810 right, 801 00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:31,720 and gradually helping you to pass that examination. 802 00:55:31,750 --> 00:55:37,720 Now, can she teach you without the idea of examination? 803 00:55:39,730 --> 00:55:41,880 How do you test yourself, sir? 804 00:55:41,980 --> 00:55:44,760 – In what? – Without examination. 805 00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:48,800 How do you test yourself, without examination? 806 00:55:49,170 --> 00:55:51,260 You mean to say that an examination is going to tell you... 807 00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:53,170 how you have learned? 808 00:55:53,240 --> 00:55:56,680 – Maybe, sir. – Listen, you are too quick. 809 00:55:56,710 --> 00:55:57,990 Find out. 810 00:55:58,100 --> 00:56:01,620 You are all so used to examinations. 811 00:56:01,650 --> 00:56:03,220 That is your tradition. 812 00:56:03,300 --> 00:56:05,470 That is your habit. 813 00:56:05,650 --> 00:56:07,470 And when you question that, you say... 814 00:56:07,570 --> 00:56:10,620 “Yes, what shall I do?”, you get nervous, 815 00:56:10,670 --> 00:56:12,460 frightened. 816 00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,770 When I was learning, when I was at school in England, 817 00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:21,640 I never passed one examination. 818 00:56:22,710 --> 00:56:23,840 Right? 819 00:56:25,610 --> 00:56:28,820 I went through all the examinations but I couldn’t... 820 00:56:28,850 --> 00:56:33,690 I sat in the hall without writing a thing. 821 00:57:45,740 --> 00:57:49,610 Are you interested in all this? 822 00:57:51,350 --> 00:57:54,720 What do you consider is life? 823 00:57:57,820 --> 00:58:01,620 Your life, what is your life? 824 00:58:02,630 --> 00:58:06,700 What is that life that you daily live? 825 00:58:08,630 --> 00:58:11,800 Dependence, attachment, pain, 826 00:58:12,740 --> 00:58:16,740 annoyance, anger, irritation, sorrow. 827 00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:20,850 You know all this don’t you? This is your daily life. 828 00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:22,820 Going to the temple... 829 00:58:22,850 --> 00:58:26,590 and doing some kind of noise with the bell, 830 00:58:26,620 --> 00:58:27,820 and doing puja, 831 00:58:29,690 --> 00:58:30,820 doing yoga. 832 00:58:32,790 --> 00:58:36,600 That we say, that is our life. 833 00:58:36,700 --> 00:58:40,600 Then what do you mean by a religious life? 834 00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:41,770 You tell me. 835 00:58:42,810 --> 00:58:45,010 What does religion mean to you? 836 00:58:45,110 --> 00:58:46,830 The word. 837 00:58:47,780 --> 00:58:50,850 The word religion... 838 00:58:51,750 --> 00:58:55,720 means: to gather all your energy. 839 00:58:57,290 --> 00:58:59,790 That's all it means. 840 00:58:59,830 --> 00:59:01,290 Do you understand sir? 841 00:59:01,380 --> 00:59:04,600 To gather all your energy... 842 00:59:05,730 --> 00:59:07,800 to enquire, to find. 843 00:59:10,740 --> 00:59:11,740 Right? 844 00:59:12,540 --> 00:59:16,780 Not all the nonsense of temples, rituals, and... 845 00:59:16,850 --> 00:59:20,820 all this either, sir, what you put on your head. 846 00:59:21,020 --> 00:59:23,720 You see how you all agree? 847 00:59:23,820 --> 00:59:26,720 The meaning of the word, 848 00:59:26,860 --> 00:59:29,830 that means gathering... 849 00:59:31,860 --> 00:59:33,730 every... 850 00:59:34,500 --> 00:59:38,600 particle of energy that you have, 851 00:59:39,770 --> 00:59:43,610 to enquire into... 852 00:59:43,710 --> 00:59:47,650 what is truth and what is reality. 853 00:59:48,750 --> 00:59:52,650 To enquire into what is meditation. 854 00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:57,830 To enquire into why human beings live the way we are living. 855 00:59:58,330 --> 01:00:01,730 To enquire if there is an end to sorrow. 856 01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,870 To enquire into what is love. 857 01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:09,740 Whether one can live without any effort... 858 01:00:10,170 --> 01:00:11,540 and control. 859 01:00:11,620 --> 01:00:15,610 All that is implied in that word. 860 01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:19,850 A religious life... 861 01:00:20,890 --> 01:00:22,760 implies... 862 01:00:22,820 --> 01:00:25,790 being a light to yourself. 863 01:00:28,730 --> 01:00:29,860 Which means... 864 01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:33,900 no outside authority. 865 01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:38,710 We are talking about... 866 01:00:38,770 --> 01:00:42,650 having no spiritual authority. 867 01:00:44,380 --> 01:00:47,650 Including me, the speaker. 868 01:00:52,220 --> 01:00:54,320 Have you any authority, 869 01:00:54,450 --> 01:00:56,730 spiritual authority? 870 01:01:01,700 --> 01:01:06,840 You have had various gurus, Mahatma Gandhi, Mr. Gandhi, 871 01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,650 and so on, all the way from the 6th, 872 01:01:10,740 --> 01:01:14,620 5th, 4th, 3rd century... 873 01:01:14,650 --> 01:01:16,750 down to the present. 874 01:01:16,890 --> 01:01:20,820 And where are you, having been led, 875 01:01:21,220 --> 01:01:23,530 for these thousands years? 876 01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:25,630 Where are you? 877 01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:30,630 Or you want to be still led? 878 01:01:37,140 --> 01:01:38,780 So I am asking, 879 01:01:38,810 --> 01:01:40,710 we are asking you... 880 01:01:40,780 --> 01:01:42,650 courteously, 881 01:01:43,150 --> 01:01:47,690 if you have thrown away your traditions? 882 01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:52,790 Traditions being nationality, 883 01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:56,630 your caste, 884 01:01:58,270 --> 01:02:00,270 your beliefs, 885 01:02:01,270 --> 01:02:03,020 your... 886 01:02:03,510 --> 01:02:05,210 rituals, 887 01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:08,080 going to the temples. 888 01:02:08,430 --> 01:02:09,960 All that. 889 01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:12,880 Have you thrown it away? 890 01:02:14,420 --> 01:02:15,720 No? 891 01:02:15,820 --> 01:02:16,820 No. 892 01:02:16,890 --> 01:02:20,710 Then how can you find out what a religious life is... 893 01:02:20,790 --> 01:02:23,860 when you are blind? 894 01:02:30,140 --> 01:02:33,840 So you want to find out what a religious life is... 895 01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:38,750 and yet won‘t leave your little enclosure. 896 01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:42,940 Right? 897 01:02:44,310 --> 01:02:48,340 You are tied to your tradition. 898 01:02:49,110 --> 01:02:54,670 And you want to enquire into something, that demands... 899 01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:57,670 a mind that is capable, 900 01:02:58,670 --> 01:03:01,770 a heart that can really love. 901 01:03:03,710 --> 01:03:06,130 Without that, 902 01:03:06,410 --> 01:03:08,450 freeing yourself from... 903 01:03:08,550 --> 01:03:11,410 your tradition, your culture, your belief, 904 01:03:11,500 --> 01:03:13,930 how can you find out anything? 905 01:03:14,090 --> 01:03:17,660 You can repeat what The Gita said... 906 01:03:18,890 --> 01:03:21,420 or the Upanishads or some other book. 907 01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:23,730 What value has it? 908 01:03:25,870 --> 01:03:28,670 I was told the other day– 909 01:03:28,710 --> 01:03:31,780 some of the gurus now give lectures... 910 01:03:31,810 --> 01:03:33,880 or talks on the Gita. 911 01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:36,770 Is that right? 912 01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:42,590 And there are hundreds and thousands who go and listen to it. 913 01:03:42,620 --> 01:03:44,790 What value has it? 914 01:03:48,260 --> 01:03:51,830 What are we all playing at sirs? 915 01:03:55,840 --> 01:04:00,660 Apparently one doesn’t see one’s own tragedy. 916 01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:02,810 Right, sir? 917 01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:17,330 Psychologically, why should I accept what somebody else says... 918 01:04:17,460 --> 01:04:19,210 when I realize... 919 01:04:19,370 --> 01:04:22,470 that I am the rest of mankind? 920 01:04:23,300 --> 01:04:25,310 Mankind is me. 921 01:04:26,270 --> 01:04:30,280 The ‘me’ is the history of mankind, the book of mankind. 922 01:04:30,310 --> 01:04:32,350 If I know how to read it... 923 01:04:32,380 --> 01:04:35,350 I don’t depend on anybody. 924 01:04:36,390 --> 01:04:38,320 So, can I, 925 01:04:39,060 --> 01:04:41,260 without distortion, 926 01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:44,290 without prejudice, 927 01:04:44,430 --> 01:04:46,500 without choice, 928 01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:49,960 be aware of the content of this book, 929 01:04:50,060 --> 01:04:51,770 which is me? 930 01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:55,740 To read it very carefully, 931 01:04:55,770 --> 01:04:56,940 never... 932 01:04:57,910 --> 01:05:00,270 distorting it, 933 01:05:01,170 --> 01:05:03,820 requires a great deal of attention, 934 01:05:03,850 --> 01:05:05,810 a great deal of energy, 935 01:05:05,910 --> 01:05:07,210 intensity, 936 01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:08,860 immediacy. 937 01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:12,390 And we are not willing to do all that because... 938 01:05:12,490 --> 01:05:14,670 we think that is too tiresome. 939 01:05:14,770 --> 01:05:17,650 “Tell me quickly what to do and I will do it.” 940 01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:19,230 Or I may not do it. 941 01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:22,710 Generally, I may not do it. 942 01:05:23,940 --> 01:05:27,680 And I personally think that... 943 01:05:27,780 --> 01:05:30,550 this psychological guidance by another, 944 01:05:30,630 --> 01:05:32,730 whether it is the religious guidance, 945 01:05:32,840 --> 01:05:37,660 or the guidance of the psychologist, 946 01:05:37,690 --> 01:05:39,660 is totally wrong. 947 01:05:40,660 --> 01:05:45,530 Because then you are making humanity into children, 948 01:05:46,130 --> 01:05:50,800 who have to be guided, told, encouraged. 949 01:05:51,910 --> 01:05:55,910 We are all grown up human beings after... 950 01:05:56,210 --> 01:05:58,380 5 or 10 million years. 951 01:06:32,990 --> 01:06:34,890 Through negation... 952 01:06:35,090 --> 01:06:36,860 of what is not, 953 01:06:37,860 --> 01:06:39,930 the positive exists. 954 01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:41,930 That is, 955 01:06:42,870 --> 01:06:44,900 love is not desire. 956 01:06:46,770 --> 01:06:48,870 Love is not pleasure. 957 01:06:48,940 --> 01:06:51,910 Love is not a remembrance. 958 01:06:53,210 --> 01:06:55,810 It is as strong as death, 959 01:06:55,850 --> 01:06:57,780 as vital as life. 960 01:07:00,220 --> 01:07:01,850 And you see, 961 01:07:04,660 --> 01:07:08,930 love can only exist when there is no suffering. 962 01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:12,800 Suffering is personal. 963 01:07:14,900 --> 01:07:17,840 Suffering is also global. 964 01:07:19,140 --> 01:07:22,750 Man has suffered endlessly. 965 01:07:23,410 --> 01:07:26,920 And he tries to combine that suffering... 966 01:07:26,950 --> 01:07:29,820 with what he calls love. 967 01:07:30,550 --> 01:07:34,960 And so there is always this contradiction, 968 01:07:35,230 --> 01:07:36,900 this duality. 969 01:07:37,860 --> 01:07:41,700 Whereas if you deny all that... 970 01:07:41,770 --> 01:07:43,900 that which is not love, 971 01:07:43,940 --> 01:07:47,910 then the other thing has its immense beauty, 972 01:07:47,940 --> 01:07:51,910 great strength, and vitality of its own. 973 01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:08,830 Then why do you have to learn mathematics...? 974 01:08:08,860 --> 01:08:11,770 Because part of Mathematics... 975 01:08:12,900 --> 01:08:14,740 is order. 976 01:08:15,240 --> 01:08:18,810 2 + 2 + 2 make 6. 977 01:08:20,950 --> 01:08:22,430 That's order. 978 01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:23,819 Right? 979 01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:26,790 In sequence, it must be. 980 01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:31,319 So mathematics, much more complicated and all that, 981 01:08:31,420 --> 01:08:33,850 is a series of... 982 01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:36,899 sequences and order. 983 01:08:38,399 --> 01:08:39,800 Right? 984 01:09:17,010 --> 01:09:18,859 Are we... 985 01:09:18,970 --> 01:09:23,790 aware of our responsibility to another? 986 01:09:24,990 --> 01:09:27,720 If one has a family, 987 01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:30,290 wife, children, 988 01:09:30,319 --> 01:09:34,840 are you responsible for those children? 989 01:09:36,229 --> 01:09:37,899 That you care. 990 01:09:38,939 --> 01:09:42,200 That you have love for them. 991 01:09:42,319 --> 01:09:44,710 Are you concerned... 992 01:09:47,210 --> 01:09:48,950 that they become... 993 01:09:49,250 --> 01:09:51,890 healthy good citizens? 994 01:09:54,220 --> 01:09:59,930 If you have children, do you feel responsible for those children? 995 01:09:59,960 --> 01:10:02,550 To see that they have right education... 996 01:10:02,690 --> 01:10:06,900 so that they won’t be killed in a war? 997 01:10:07,970 --> 01:10:09,940 They won’t become... 998 01:10:10,940 --> 01:10:12,780 mediocre. 999 01:10:14,410 --> 01:10:17,950 Or you have no time at all for them. 1000 01:10:17,980 --> 01:10:21,920 Because you have to go out and earn money, 1001 01:10:21,950 --> 01:10:25,200 as the man, and the mother and the father, 1002 01:10:25,300 --> 01:10:29,900 as they do now, and have very little time for the children. 1003 01:10:29,930 --> 01:10:31,800 That is a fact. 1004 01:10:32,100 --> 01:10:35,870 So where is your responsibility? 1005 01:10:38,910 --> 01:10:42,750 Oh, you are not interested in all this. 1006 01:10:46,550 --> 01:10:48,810 So one asks, 1007 01:10:49,060 --> 01:10:52,720 what are you interested in? 1008 01:10:53,220 --> 01:10:56,820 I think that is a legitimate question. 1009 01:10:56,830 --> 01:11:01,930 You can talk about love, freedom and the beauty of the sky, 1010 01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:05,970 but it is only an outside interest. 1011 01:11:06,140 --> 01:11:08,050 But basically... 1012 01:11:08,150 --> 01:11:10,910 what are we interested in? 1013 01:11:10,940 --> 01:11:12,780 Ourselves 1014 01:11:12,880 --> 01:11:13,880 That’s right. 1015 01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:16,500 You are interested in yourself. 1016 01:11:16,600 --> 01:11:18,720 Right? 1017 01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:22,730 Wait sir, perfectly right. 1018 01:11:22,790 --> 01:11:26,800 Each one is interested in himself. 1019 01:11:28,770 --> 01:11:30,040 On that... 1020 01:11:30,160 --> 01:11:34,970 our society, culture, religion is based. 1021 01:11:35,170 --> 01:11:36,770 Right? 1022 01:11:36,780 --> 01:11:37,930 Each one... 1023 01:11:38,030 --> 01:11:39,320 interested... 1024 01:11:39,420 --> 01:11:40,850 in himself. 1025 01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:42,750 His progress, 1026 01:11:42,850 --> 01:11:45,850 – all the rest of it. 1027 01:11:49,890 --> 01:11:54,220 Do you, as a human being, realize... 1028 01:11:54,340 --> 01:11:57,430 that we are all one... 1029 01:11:57,500 --> 01:11:59,740 basically? 1030 01:12:02,140 --> 01:12:05,060 Not as an idea, 1031 01:12:05,430 --> 01:12:07,170 but as a fact. 1032 01:12:07,250 --> 01:12:09,250 Because when you go to India... 1033 01:12:09,470 --> 01:12:13,750 you see the misery, the confusion, the anxiety, 1034 01:12:13,780 --> 01:12:15,890 the despair of people... 1035 01:12:16,590 --> 01:12:21,830 running to their petty little gods, whom they have created. 1036 01:12:21,890 --> 01:12:25,970 You come to Europe, it's exactly the same thing. 1037 01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:31,920 They've got their Jesus, their Christ. You follow? 1038 01:12:32,310 --> 01:12:35,810 You come here it is exactly the same. 1039 01:12:38,350 --> 01:12:40,630 You understand sir? 1040 01:12:42,390 --> 01:12:44,930 First to realize, 1041 01:12:45,020 --> 01:12:46,570 not verbally... 1042 01:12:46,670 --> 01:12:51,900 but in your heart, in your blood, in your whole thinking, 1043 01:12:51,930 --> 01:12:54,930 that human beings right through the world, 1044 01:12:54,970 --> 01:12:59,870 go through the same agonies that one goes through. 1045 01:12:59,910 --> 01:13:03,810 The loneliness, the despair, the depressions, 1046 01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:06,010 the extraordinary uncertainty, 1047 01:13:06,150 --> 01:13:07,760 insecurity, 1048 01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:09,850 whether they live... 1049 01:13:10,020 --> 01:13:13,850 10,000 miles away or 2,000 miles or here. 1050 01:13:13,890 --> 01:13:18,830 They are all psychologically bound together. 1051 01:13:19,430 --> 01:13:21,900 If one realizes that... 1052 01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:23,570 profoundly... 1053 01:13:23,660 --> 01:13:29,760 in your guts, in your blood, in your heart, in your mind... 1054 01:13:30,770 --> 01:13:33,910 then you are responsible. 1055 01:13:46,050 --> 01:13:49,830 You have heard all this, you as a human being. 1056 01:13:50,330 --> 01:13:52,930 Why don’t you change? 1057 01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:55,000 What prevents you? 1058 01:13:56,440 --> 01:13:59,940 If each one of us asked that question, 1059 01:13:59,980 --> 01:14:01,790 not... 1060 01:14:02,210 --> 01:14:04,040 verbally, 1061 01:14:04,140 --> 01:14:07,400 or merely intellectually, as an entertainment, 1062 01:14:07,490 --> 01:14:10,960 but asked that question most seriously and deeply, 1063 01:14:11,080 --> 01:14:13,790 what's your answer? 1064 01:14:15,490 --> 01:14:18,210 What's your answer to this problem... 1065 01:14:18,310 --> 01:14:21,000 that human beings have lived this way... 1066 01:14:21,030 --> 01:14:23,720 for millennia upon millennia? 1067 01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:25,700 Why haven’t they changed? 1068 01:14:25,810 --> 01:14:29,270 Why haven’t you, who are listening now, 1069 01:14:29,380 --> 01:14:31,680 why haven’t you changed? 1070 01:14:31,710 --> 01:14:36,920 You know if you don‘t change what the consequences are. 1071 01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:39,910 You will be national, nationalistic. 1072 01:14:40,010 --> 01:14:42,850 You will be tribal, insular, 1073 01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:45,230 isolated and therefore... 1074 01:14:45,610 --> 01:14:49,190 having no relationship globally. 1075 01:14:49,380 --> 01:14:52,040 Fighting, fighting, fighting. 1076 01:14:52,570 --> 01:14:56,980 Building up more and more armaments to destroy each other. 1077 01:14:57,010 --> 01:14:57,980 Now... 1078 01:14:58,040 --> 01:15:02,400 why don’t you, if you are at all serious in this matter, 1079 01:15:02,570 --> 01:15:05,020 why don’t you ask yourself that question? 1080 01:15:05,150 --> 01:15:06,150 Why am I, 1081 01:15:06,290 --> 01:15:07,740 a human being... 1082 01:15:07,840 --> 01:15:09,770 who has been through all this, 1083 01:15:09,930 --> 01:15:12,120 why haven’t I changed? 1084 01:15:12,260 --> 01:15:15,000 What would be your answer? 1085 01:15:17,430 --> 01:15:19,300 After all, 1086 01:15:21,570 --> 01:15:23,570 life is one. 1087 01:15:25,880 --> 01:15:29,950 One global unitary movement. 1088 01:15:30,050 --> 01:15:32,020 So in the same way... 1089 01:15:34,620 --> 01:15:39,830 our consciousness is common to all mankind. 1090 01:15:39,990 --> 01:15:44,030 Now, if I radically change, 1091 01:15:46,030 --> 01:15:50,940 surely it affects the rest of the consciousness of man. 1092 01:15:51,040 --> 01:15:55,850 Now, why don’t you change?