Reloaded thoughts
I realized(courtesy some gentle nudges) that this page has been neglected too long and so has the activity of recording random thoughts.
A few thoughts were begging to be penned after the Mumbai serial blasts. There were actually men who invested time in planning for a cause to kill people. All this for a cause they believed in - either of a separate land or a greater religion or a greater belief. In times such as these, the futility of believing in causes or groups sometimes strikes me as the easiest path to follow or take. While it is the most difficult one to implement when living in the real world, to me, it is a concept that when implemented in thought frees the mind from many burdens almost instantly.
I've been reading a lot of Jiddu Krishnamurti's writings lately. While dissolving the Order of the East, of which he was (quite hesitatingly) made the Head, Jiddu remarked:
"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organise a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organise it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallised; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others."
Such thoughts are amazing because here is a man who does not believe in organized religion or any sect/class. While his thoughts are very difficult to implement in the real world in practice, they tend to make sense on the individual level. If people thought like him , everyone would be an organized individual in the mind without prejudiced identification to groups. While we cannot live without nations,class,religion or creed because because as humans we are all born to classify and divide ourselves, it is amazing that while I read and try to understand Krishnamurti, it is inevitable I see through some of my own prejudices and classifications and work towards identifying with other human beings better without intentionally or unintentionally being prejudiced. Perfection in this thought may come with experience but it is definitely a good starting point for a more peaceful and stable society when every human thinks this way.
Going further, it also seems that religion tries to achieve this same goal of unity among masses but it has inherent assumptions like the existence of a God or supernatural that is omni-present and all powerful. Human beings are sometimes forced to believe in such an entity to unite themselves(and other times gravitate towards this thought for want of anything substantial to hold on to in life) The sad part is religion's goals are noble but since it is not a pure conception and might have come from humans like us, it falls short in creating a unified theory acceptable to every human mind. Maybe that's why we see so many religions and so many differences and hence clashes.
On the other hand, Krishnamurti hints towards self-introspection and realizing how many parts make us
inside to identify with the variety in the world outside. Each human may have an internal control which will help him/her identify themselves and with others.
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Okay, Jiddu takes a breather, while I mull over Sachin's impending return to international cricket this August. The past few months have raised questions both within the man himself and as always among his fans as to where he stands in terms of offering something to the game. Maybe there is time for a couple of years before the curtain starts coming down slowly but surely. Strange is life because it was only 1989 when India's tour of Pakistan saw a teenager take cricket by storm. 17 years hence and many many summits have been scaled, yet only in a nation like ours can we malign,worship,criticize,adore,curse and eventually bury a human all at the same time. And yet, it is only a human who rises above all this and finds his peace in who he really is.
A few thoughts were begging to be penned after the Mumbai serial blasts. There were actually men who invested time in planning for a cause to kill people. All this for a cause they believed in - either of a separate land or a greater religion or a greater belief. In times such as these, the futility of believing in causes or groups sometimes strikes me as the easiest path to follow or take. While it is the most difficult one to implement when living in the real world, to me, it is a concept that when implemented in thought frees the mind from many burdens almost instantly.
I've been reading a lot of Jiddu Krishnamurti's writings lately. While dissolving the Order of the East, of which he was (quite hesitatingly) made the Head, Jiddu remarked:
"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organise a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organise it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallised; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others."
Such thoughts are amazing because here is a man who does not believe in organized religion or any sect/class. While his thoughts are very difficult to implement in the real world in practice, they tend to make sense on the individual level. If people thought like him , everyone would be an organized individual in the mind without prejudiced identification to groups. While we cannot live without nations,class,religion or creed because because as humans we are all born to classify and divide ourselves, it is amazing that while I read and try to understand Krishnamurti, it is inevitable I see through some of my own prejudices and classifications and work towards identifying with other human beings better without intentionally or unintentionally being prejudiced. Perfection in this thought may come with experience but it is definitely a good starting point for a more peaceful and stable society when every human thinks this way.
Going further, it also seems that religion tries to achieve this same goal of unity among masses but it has inherent assumptions like the existence of a God or supernatural that is omni-present and all powerful. Human beings are sometimes forced to believe in such an entity to unite themselves(and other times gravitate towards this thought for want of anything substantial to hold on to in life) The sad part is religion's goals are noble but since it is not a pure conception and might have come from humans like us, it falls short in creating a unified theory acceptable to every human mind. Maybe that's why we see so many religions and so many differences and hence clashes.
On the other hand, Krishnamurti hints towards self-introspection and realizing how many parts make us
inside to identify with the variety in the world outside. Each human may have an internal control which will help him/her identify themselves and with others.
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Okay, Jiddu takes a breather, while I mull over Sachin's impending return to international cricket this August. The past few months have raised questions both within the man himself and as always among his fans as to where he stands in terms of offering something to the game. Maybe there is time for a couple of years before the curtain starts coming down slowly but surely. Strange is life because it was only 1989 when India's tour of Pakistan saw a teenager take cricket by storm. 17 years hence and many many summits have been scaled, yet only in a nation like ours can we malign,worship,criticize,adore,curse and eventually bury a human all at the same time. And yet, it is only a human who rises above all this and finds his peace in who he really is.