U. G. Krishnamurti Bücher

U. G. ist eine Art Antichrist, die Reinkarnation Nietzsches auf dem spirituellen Parkett. Es gibt nur die Vergangenheit in Tätigkeit und diese Bewegung erschafft die Illusion von Gegenwart und Zukunft. Sie mögen das, was ich hier sage, logisch oder unlogisch finden, und Sie mögen es akzeptieren oder ablehnen. Aber es wird in jedem Fall die Vergangenheit sein, die das tut, denn nur sie ist in Ihnen wirksam. Die Vergangenheit hat diese Ziele projiziert – Gott, Erleuchtung, Seelenfrieden, was auch immer – und sie in die Zukunft verlegt, außer Reichweite. Alles, wofür Sie stehen, woran Sie glauben, was Sie erfahren und anstreben, ist das Ergebnis des Denkens. Und das Denken ist deshalb destruktiv, weil es nichts weiter als ein Schutzmechanismus ist, der darauf programmiert ist, mit allen Mitteln seine eigenen Interessen zu schützen. Die Kultur hat den Organismus daran gehindert, in seiner ganzen Einzigartigkeit zu erblühen. Sie hat etwas Falsches vor ihn hingestellt – den idealen Menschen. Das Ganze ist aus dem entzweienden Bewusstsein der Menschheit geboren. Es hat uns nichts als Gewalt gebracht.

An underground spiritual classic now widely available in the U.S., this work presents the unique perspective of U.G. Krishnamurti, a distinctive figure in contemporary spirituality. It serves as a sharp critique of modern spiritual practices, emphasizing U.G.'s rejection of conventional techniques, teachers, and organizations. He seeks to demystify spirituality, asserting, "I am only interested in describing this state... Maybe I can convince you not to waste a lot of time and energy looking for a state that does not exist except in your imagination." He distinguishes the natural state from enlightenment, which he views as a cultural illusion, insisting that one cannot attain the natural state through effort; any attempt to do so only creates separation from it. U.G. Krishnamurti's insights offer a fresh understanding of contemporary spirituality. His relationship with J. Krishnamurti, marked by both collaboration and contention, highlights his influence in modern spiritual discourse. The book comprises transcripts of informal discussions, including U.G.'s life story and the "calamity" that led to his entry into the natural state at age 49. While he does not provide hope or solutions, his stark reality encourages readers to confront their own beliefs and motivations, ultimately guiding them toward personal truth.

I asked a friend, an editor of a magazine, to do a cover story on U.G. His prompt response was, “U.G. is not a cover story material, he is only for the upper-class intellectuals…has no mass appeal...” “Very few people can understand him and his philosophy,” he went on to add. On coming out of his office, I pondered over the startling revelation. After all, just because I understood or appreciated something, does not mean that everyone else does too. I started going through the various material available on / about U.G. and discovered that the fault did not lie with U.G. or his statements (which I knew already) but with people like us who want to present him to the world. Just like when we present a rose to someone, we break off all its thorns, we should present the essence of U.G.'s philosophy in its purity, minus the mind -shattering, devastating, blasphemous…thorns. I am trying to do this exercise and hope to reach the masses! Sunita Pant Bansal NOIDA, India 2002

My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody. Thus spoke U.G. Krishnamurti in his uniquely iconoclastic and subversive way, distancing himself from gurus, spiritual advisers , mystics, sages, enlightened philosophers et al. UG s only advice was that people should throw away their crutches and free themselves from the stranglehold of cultural conditioning. Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti was born on 9 July 1918 in Masulipatnam, a coastal town in Andhra Pradesh. He died on 22 March 2007 at the age of eighty-nine in Vallecrosia, Italy, at the villa of a friend. The effect that he had, and will continue to have, on legions of his admirers is difficult to put into words. With his flowing silvery hair, deep-set eyes and elongated Buddha-like ears, he was an explosive yet cleansing presence and has been variously described as a wild flower of the earth , a bird in constant flight , an anti-guru and a cosmic Naxalite . UG gave no lectures or discourses and had no organization or fixed address, but he travelled all over the world to meet people who flocked to listen to his anti-teaching . His language was always uncompromisingly simple and unadorned, his conversational style informal, intimate, blasphemous and invigorating. This reader, edited by long-time friend and admirer Mukunda Rao, is a compilation of UG s freewheeling and radical utterances and ideas. UG unceasingly questioned and demolished the very foundations of human thought but, as Rao says, in the cathartic laughter or the silence after UG had spoken, there was a profound sense of freedom from illusory goals and the tyranny of knowledge, beauty, goodness, truth and God .