“I was telling them this morning – for seventy years that super-energy – no – that immense energy, immense intelligence, has been using this body. I don’t think people realise what tremendous energy and intelligence went through this body – there’s twelve-cylinder engine. And for seventy years – was a pretty long time – and now the body can’t stand any more. Nobody, unless the body has been prepared, very carefully, protected and so on – nobody can understand what went through this body. Nobody. Don’t anybody pretend. Nobody. I repeat this: nobody amongst us or the public, know what went on. I know they don’t. And now after seventy years it has come to an end. Not that that intelligence and energy – it’s somewhat here, every day, and especially at night. And after seventy years the body can’t stand it – can’t stand any more. It can’t. The Indians have a lot of damned superstitions about this – that you will and the body goes – and all that kind of nonsense. You won’t find another body like this, or that supreme intelligence operating in a body for many hundred years. You won’t see it again. When he goes, it goes. There is no consciousness left behind of that consciousness, of that state. They’ll all pretend or try to imagine they can get into touch with that. Perhaps they will somewhat if they live the teachings. But nobody has done it. Nobody. And so that’s that. “
J. Krishnamurti
It is said that every teacher is the best living example of his own teachings and J. Krishnamurti is not an exception to this because he lived what he talked. Krishnamurti’s life story is as difficult or perhaps more difficult to understand than his teachings. Since any teaching cannot be separated from its teacher, it will be interesting to study how the Teachings unfolded through the life of Krishnamurti. As the 125th birth anniversary year of Krishnamurti is coming to an end, it will be worthwhile to go through his life and the Teachings. Who was Krishnamurti? What is so unique about his teaching which distinctly sets it apart from the rest of the teachings of other teachers? What was the significance of the ‘process’ which went on more or less throughout his life? What was his dialogue with death? How does one understand the vacant mind or the vast emptiness that Krishnamurti talks about? What is the significance of Krishnamurti’s last statement as quoted above? Was Krishnamurti’s life planned? All such questions and many more as raised by the participants will be explored during this gathering. Hints and statements from his teachings and his authentic biography by Mary Lutyens viz. ‘Life and Death of J. Krishnamurti’ will be the basis of study during this gathering.