![]() Supplement it with the video, “What is Spiritual Life” here. How childish! Who but yourself can tell you if you are beautiful or ugly within? Who but yourself can tell you if you are incorruptible?” I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion. ![]() “You are accustomed to being told how far you have advanced, what is your spiritual status. His final teaching is to not seek comfort or validation from an external source but to look within: Rather should they be free from all fears–from the fear of religion, from the fear of salvation, from the fear of spirituality, from the fear of love, from the fear of death, from the fear of life itself.” “I desire those, who seek to understand me to be free not to follow me, not to make out of me a cage which will become a religion, a sect. He maintained that the only way to find this truth was to be “free”: If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.” A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. “Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. He considered the formation of any sort of organisation detrimental to the realisation of one’s individual truth. He announced that he had made this decision after carefully considering it for two years. “I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.” However, soon after he assumed the position he had been groomed his entire life for, he renounced the title and dissolved the organisation with the powerful declaration: ![]() Among his peers, Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 - 1986) stands alone as an example of self-abnegation in his pursuit of truth and spirituality.Ĭhosen at a very early age to be the new World Teacher of the Order of Star, Krishnamurti led a highly regulated and disciplined life. Jiddu Krishnamurti: Truth is a pathless land Aug Tom Das Jiddu Krishnamurti was ‘discovered’ as a young child in 1909 by the Theosophical Society, and was groomed to be the vehicle for the soon to arrive World Teacher. Many so-called enlightened leaders have faltered due to a growing obsession with their own personas and tenets. What starts out as sound spiritual guidance is often overtaken by a cult of personality.
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