12 April

Krishnamurti In India: The Last Decade

The Last Talks

Madras 1985 / 1986 – 2nd  Public Talk

36    So, living is dying. You understand? Living means every day you are abandoning everything that you are attached to. What you worship, what you think, what you don’t think, your gods, your country – nothing. Can you do this? Can you do this? A very simple fact but it has got tremendous implications. So that each day is a new day. You understand? Each day you are dying and incarnating… Oh, you don’t understand. There is tremendous vitality, energy there. You understand? Because there is nothing you are afraid of. There is nothing that can hurt, being hurt, doesn’t exist. Thought is limited, therefore it has no importance; it has importance because I have to get up and go in five minutes, but time, thought, fear, attachment, and all the things that man has put together has to be totally abandoned. That’s what it means to die. God may be waiting to save you in heaven – it all sounds so ridiculous. So can you do it? Will you try it? Will you experiment with it? Not for just a day. Every day. No, sir, you can’t do it. Your brains are not trained for this. Your brains have been conditioned so heavily, by your education, by your tradition, by your books, by your professors, by your – all the rest of it. This requires to find out what is love; love and death go together because death says be free, non-attached, nothing you can carry with you. And love says – there is no word for it. So love can exist only when there is freedom, not from your wife, for a new girl, or a new husband, but the feeling, the enormous strength, the vitality, the energy of complete freedom.

37    Next time we meet we will talk about religion and meditation. I hope that’s all right. I am sorry there are only three talks but the speaker cannot carry on. You understand? He is ninety one and that is good enough.