https://youtu.be/ssl77Xl1hXU?si=Ez-HJvepgweWK2gX
In this hour-long rivetting video, UG is uncompromising and throwing out everything we hold sacred and dear. He is dismantling all that is ‘known’ –theories, beliefs, institutions, and value systems.
Calling the bluff, “Life has no grander purpose than the mosquito sucking your blood”, UG makes us see things for what they are.
In UG’s hard hitting words, “To be free from the need to be free” lies the restoration of life’s balance and normalcy.
‘To be free from the need to be free’ is true freedom, freedom from all mental chimeras or delusions. This is the real “Stopping in our tracks.”
In his ‘scorched-earth’ tirade against all spiritual undertakings or psychological adventures, UG boots out false search or hope (especially of the psychological or spiritual kind).
Hope is the dope for psychological continuity. Hope fuels thinking, spurring the mind.
But false hope begets hopelessness and restlessness, guzzling away huge amounts of our energy and vitality.
Most importantly, hope hijacks perception, giving rise to delusions and distortions.
UG surgically goes about uprooting even the tiny remnants of search or hope. This is scary stuff. But when we begin to see the futility of false search and the profound wisdom of his words, we actually become hope-free and grounded.
Being hope-free or goal-free, is to be free from the tyranny of the mind. It is real healing, unburdening and rejuvenating.
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Here is a close parallel from an ancient classic, Ribhu Gita, hailed as an exposition on meta-meditation:
किंचिदस्ति इति चेच्चिते सर्वं भवति शीघ्र अतः।
यत्किञ्चित किमापि क्वापि न अस्ति चेन्न प्रसाज्यति।
kincidastiti ceccitte sarvarh bhavati sighrataha.
yatkincit kimapi kvapi nasti cenna prasajyati.
(“Even if there is a little of the ‘mind’ (hope), it soon becomes all. If there is no little, nothing arises whatsoever, or wherever.”)
- Ribhu Gita (4-28),
Ribhu Gita is hailed by Sri Ramana Maharshi as one of the greatest classics offering the closest description of his own state.
In Ribhu Gita, a sagely figure Ribhu, a close parallel to UG, goes about surgically discrediting all that is ‘known’, brushing aside all gods, scriptures, institutions, traditions, names and forms, to try and quell the stirrings of the mind of his acolyte Nidagha.
But here, the end-game is still ‘samadhi’ (spiritual goal).
UG, in a major departure from all other sagely figures, fiercely tore down one of the most acclaimed spiritual practices in the Eastern tradition – the negation approach (‘neti, neti’ - ‘not this’, ‘not this’).
UG pointed out that negation is very much fraught with desire or hope to attain some positive outcome – a state of enlightenment or samadhi.
For UG ‘neti, neti’ therefore, is not a rejection but quite the opposite- the affirmation, the assertion of a goal, a spiritual grail. It puts one on a merry go round, on an ego trip, once again maintaining and nourishing the false ‘self’, defeating the very purpose.
Spiritual goals and undertakings could indeed be enticing traps. There is always the danger that false hope could push someone into a real state of despondence and delusion with dire consequences.
“There is no oasis situated yonder; you are stuck with the mirage.” - UG
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A note from Chandrasekhar Babu:
'Labeling U.G.'s message as "negative" is the mind's defense mechanism - an attempt to discredit and invalidate that which it perceives as an annihilating force capable of dismantling its deeply entrenched structures of thought and identity.'
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Transcription of the video clip
Luc Sala: “Not much left! …that’s the main story. UG Krishnamurti, every time I talk with you, you leave me with nothing. I would call you the big Blackhole of our knowledge. Everything that we can dream of, as being relevant, as having meaning, goes into UG’s Blackhole and disappears…
UG: I don’t see any Blackhole.
LS: Well, for me, you are! You are like the way they (what you call), our illusions disappear, I don’t know what is behind the Blackhole, neither do you…
UG: I don’t see any Blackhole there…you see a Blackhole there?
LS: Whatever I see, you make the weapon smoke !
UG: There is a very comforting thing for you to believe that I am a Blackhole.
LS: Even to believe Blackhole, isn’t there…We spoke with UG Krishnamurti, 50 years ago he came to Holland and for about 50 years , he did away with his being associated with Theosophical Society, and everything India stood for and I believe everything that the Western world…
UG: Everything human thought has come up with, everything was thrown out of my system, I am a very lucky guy, I have been freed from the stranglehold of the human thought and I CANNOT BE OF ANY HELP TO ANYBODY BECAUSE, YOU DON’T NEED ANY HELP!
LS: Wow… To feel free from the need to be…
UG: To be free from the need to be free
LS: To be free from the need to be free, That’s a paradox…
UG: It sounds like a paradox…It’s a fact!
LS: To be free from the need to be free
UG: There is nothing there to be free from…
WOW !!!
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