Indian spiritual philosopher, mystic, speaker and writer (1895–1986)
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Groomed from childhood to be the prophesied World Teacher who would guide humanity's spiritual evolution, he walked away from the entire apparatus in 1929 and spent the next fifty-seven years insisting truth has no path, no guru, no method — not even him.
Born in 1895 in India, Jiddu Krishnamurti was adopted by the Theosophical Society and raised to fulfill a messianic role. In 1922, he began experiencing violent mystical episodes that permanently altered his perception. Seven years later, he dissolved the Order of the Star in the East built around him and rejected the movement that had shaped his life. He traveled the world speaking about "choiceless awareness" — a state beyond thought and doctrine — while warning audiences not to follow anyone, including himself. Aldous Huxley brought him to a mainstream publisher in the 1950s; The First and…
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I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
I do not want to belong to any organization of a spiritual kind, please understand this.
Your prejudices, your fears, your authorities, your churches new and old – all these, I maintain, are a barrier to understanding. I cannot make myself clearer than this.
These are not my words; they are the words of the Master who taught me. Without Him I could have done nothing, but through His help I have set my feet upon the Path.
The first of these Qualifications is Discrimination; and this is usually taken as the discrimination between the real and the unreal which leads men to enter the Path.
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