J. Krishnamurti

Questioner: Namaskar Acharya ji! I am reading a book called “Freedom from the Known”, where the author, Jiddu Krishnamurthi, talks about removing authority to be free from the ego. What does he mean by authority? Can we take anything to be the authority and then say, “I’m not going to… read_more

Acharya Prashant: You are in front of food and you see how your body wants to lunge towards food. And do you know why the body wants to lunge towards food? Especially, let’s say, sweetmeats or high-calorie items? Why? – Because evolution taught it to, because the survival of the… read_more

A religious man must be both masculine and feminine

~ J. Krishnamurti

Speaker: You could read it either way that – he must be both feminine and masculine, or he must be neither masculine nor feminine. You know what masculinity stands for in popular parlance, as a psychological state, as… read_more

Question: Acharya Ji, what does J.Krishnamurti mean when he says, “the observer is the observed”?

Acharya Prashant: As you are, so you see the World. Simple.

That there is no objective reality about the World. The ‘subject’ and the ‘object’ are intrinsically linked; they are One. The subject and the… read_more

“It is the incapacity to understand a challenge that brings about a problem.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Acharya Prashant: “It is the incapacity to understand a challenge that brings about a problem”, this is what Krishnamurti says. And habituated we are of concluding, we are very habituated to conclude; we immediately take… read_more

Questioner (Q): I am reading J. Krishnamurti’s Freedom from the Known , where the author talks about freedom from authority as a means to be free of the ego. What does he mean by authority? What does freedom from authority mean? He also says that we should not accept even… read_more

Question: Acharya Ji, what does J. Krishnamurti mean when he says “Become deeply aware”.

Acharya Prashant: It is said, become deeply aware.

Now, we already live in problems and challenges. We already live in incompleteness. We already live in the quest to achieve something, to become something. When it is… read_more

Questioner (Q): Dear master, Jiddu Krishnamurti asks, “Has love an object? Or is love divine or profane? You follow? Sir, when you love, you are neither giving nor receiving.”

Acharya Ji, could you explain how can we love in daily life, without giving or receiving? What is love, if it… read_more

Questioner: Acharya Ji, there is a quote by you, “Seek Light, See Light, Be Light.” I was reading a book by Krishnamurti where he said, “Seeking is a kind of expansion. It’s an escape. You cannot get freedom from it.”

I am confused between the two. Please help.

Acharya Prashant: … read_more

“Love is a state in which there is no ‘me’; love is a state in which there is no condemnation, no saying that sex is right or wrong, that this good and something else is bad.

Love is none of these contradictory things.

Contradiction does not exist in love.”

~ … read_more

To understand the nature of sorrow, and the ending of sorrow, one must understand time and to understand time is to understand thought.J. Krishnamurti

Speaker: To understand sorrow, one must understand time, and to understand time is to understand thought.What is ego?We usually say the ego is “I am this”… read_more

Can you honestly, seriously, bring yourself to find out whether you are free from authority? It needs tremendous enquiry into yourself, great awareness.

From that clarity comes a totally different kind of action, an action that is not fragmentary, that is not divided politically or religiously – it is a … read_more

Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, pranam. Is there any difference between being immersed and being alert? What we see in nature is that the animals are very much alert of their surroundings from moment to moment. What does J Krishnamurti mean when he says that great alertness is needed to remain… read_more

Question: Acharya Ji, J.Krishnamurti says, “In a right relationship, you come to know yourself.” Please explain.

Acharya Prashant: The question is, Krishnamurti says, “In the right relationship, you come to know yourself.” So, how does one know himself?

That which you have quoted, is in itself the solution. He is… read_more

Explanations blind you,

they prevent you from actually seeing ‘what is’.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Questioner: Acharya Ji, JK says, “Explanations blind you, they prevent you from actually seeing ‘what is’.” But I require explanations all the time from the Guru.

Please throw some light on this.

Acharya Prashant: The problem… read_more

Question: “Observe the disorder without the observer.” How will it be possible?

Acharya Prashant: A man is driving his car in a drunk state. In an absolutely drunk state and the car is moving about in a very disorderly way. There are two rear seats. Will one seat know that… read_more

Questioner (Q): What is the relationship between witnessing, the observer, and the observed? How does witnessing relate to J Krishnamurti’s statement “Observer is the observed”?

Acharya Prashant (AP): What is observation? What is the observed one? Who is the observer? Who is the observer?

Q: The mind (someone from the… read_more

Question: “To be alone, is to be against the whole set-up of the society.” J. Krishnamurti

Sir, what is ‘being alone’?

Speaker: Society is not one thing; society is the very substance of the conditioned mind. And it’s very deceptive.

(Here, ‘I’ is used for the conditioned mind)

‘I’ belong… read_more

When you teach a child that a bird is named ‘bird’, the child will never see the bird again. ~ J. Krishnamurti

Acharya Prashant (AP): Beautiful quotation.

Because naming comes with a total bundle of association, references, memories, past, prejudices. Having named something, having tagged or labeled something, you are… read_more

“We seek happiness through things, through relationships, through thoughts, ideas and do not realize their impermanence. To find out the true meaning of happiness, we must explore the river of self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is not an end in itself. Is there a source to a stream? Every drop of water from … read_more

Question: Acharya Ji, what does J. Krishnamurti mean when he says, “To understand what is, is more important than to create and follow ideals.”

Acharya Prashant: Actually, the first part of that sentence, is the absolute, the second part is the actionable. Understanding what is, is not really a task.… read_more

Questioner (Q): Sir I have read that a few teachers have spoken about the consciousness and life after death. So, I am confused that how did they come to know about this. Are these just concepts or anything?

Acharya Prashant (AP): It’s just a concept.

It’s just that there are… read_more

Questioner: Acharya Ji, today let’s talk about the two very famous and inscrutable Masters of the 20th century.

Acharya Prashant: (Reading the questioner’s mind)

Yes, you want to talk about Osho and J. Krishnamurti, that whether there is any difference in their method, or they converge at some point.

Q: … read_more

Acharya Prashant: The more you are capable of aloneness, the more you are capable of love. It is a paradox, but go into it.

Meet as you meet a lover. Don’t take the other for granted. Don’t expect that the other would answer the doorbell. Don’t expect that the other… read_more

Questioner: Thank you for meeting with me again, Acharya Ji! I have a question.

Every time I see an attractive woman, I’m gonna feel the impulse to drop everything and look at her.

Men’s headspace is occupied with conquering women. Can I train myself out of it?

But I have… read_more

That could be one necessary mark of a true feminist: she would not be dependent on anybody else for a single rupee, especially not on the male partner.

“Financial independence and then still having kids, is that something that can be counted under feminism as such?”

No, you see, these… read_more

Questioner: Is it possible to live without a target in life? I set a target for myself so that I have something to strive for, so that I have a sense of direction, but the thought of not achieving this target also brings sorrow and fear. So how can a… read_more

It indeed does help to feel like a victim. It does not help you , but it helps that within you which is a product of victimization. Because if you are a victim, then you are entitled to certain rights. All victims get entitled to special rights.

Operate from a… read_more

Acharya Prashant: “He who claims liberation as his own, as an attainment of a person is neither enlightened nor a seeker. He suffers his own misery.”

Beautiful. “He who claims liberation as his own, as an attainment of a person is neither enlightened nor a seeker. He suffers his own… read_more

The world is a habit, but drugs are a worse habit. The one who is finding refuge in drugs is fed up of the usual stuff of consciousness, that is certain, but he is taking a very wasteful route. It’s like feeling cold in Delhi in the month of December… read_more

Acharya Prashant: Spirituality is not committing suicide, or is it? Then we do not need satsang (gathering), we need mass suicide halls. It’ll all be over! It has happened, you know? There have been cults in Japan and other places where incidents of mass suicides have been reported. They thought… read_more

“The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.” -Khalil Gibran, ‘Sand and Foam’

Question: Once during a discourse on the Bible, you too have said, “The more you know the Truth, the more you want to know; such is … read_more

Acharya Prashant: Love is the fire that melts down the bondage that is you. Knowledge is merely the light in which you can see your bondages. Even if you are able to look at your chains in the light of knowledge, that does not rid you of the chains. In… read_more

A. Objective and Fear

Wherever there is an objective, there would be fear associated with it. You hope to get something, and you fear that you may not get it. Don’t you see that a man who is chasing goals has condemned himself to live in fear?

It is possible… read_more

Acharya Prashant: Confused world, a chaotic world, a world that makes no sense. And it’s not that the world is confused or chaotic or nonsensical. It is obviously the looker, the seer of the world who is not able to comprehend it with any clarity.

Lack of clarity is a… read_more

Questioner: I want everything that I do to be perfect. Because of this, I end up procrastinating a lot of things and focus only on the minor ones that I can do almost perfectly and feel satisfied about. I am not happy about this tendency. How should I get out… read_more

Acharya Prashant: It has been told to us that there exist two centers. I suppose it has been very freshly told to you right? Very recently. He says, “How do I know that I am living out of the right center? How does a young man know whether he’s not… read_more