J Krishnamurthy - Freedom from the known.

J Krishnamurthy came in my spiritual life at a later stage. Contemporary of OSHO, JK was equally enlightened (Equally enlightened ! what a joke ) , but as was said he was an Arhat instead of a Bodhisatwa.. Arhat, the one who knows better but not advised to propound because he doesn’t have that facility of communication called ease. Bodhisatwa, on the other hand, can make people understand the message in their own language. It is said Osho was a Bodhisatwa whereas J Krishnamurthy was an Arhat.

Twice or thrice earlier I came across JK’s writings but they were dry & far flung. Osho was much easier & engaging. These two cotemporaries --- enlightened without doubt --- never saw each other face to face.

Anyway, recently I happened to read “Freedom from the known” by J Krishnamurthy.  A concise, pithy & stinging 130 pager can shake you inside out. Provided you read it twice or thrice. JK’s writing has to be gone through twice at least by any sincere seeker to get the real crux.  That’s what I feel .

The three most important messages given by J Krishnamurthy in this volume are :

1.       There is nothing to seek :

The whole stress, tension, confusion & lack of peace is movement from what “is”. Once you are able to see that there exists nothing, absolutely nothing, than what “is”, the turbulence ceases.  When we seek, it simply means we want to become something different than what or how we are. And invariably it is gong to be in future, not now. This non acceptance sort is what creates movement of mind & world.

If we stop seeking, we come home.

2.       There is nothing to fear :

JK opines that Fear has its origin in the memories created by a bad past or it is due to a probable future. Both are non existent at the moment. Hence, Right now there is hardly anything to fear. 

3.       Die to the past totally :

This is really a tough demand. Past exists nowhere except in our mind and in our memories. But, Can we get over the memory? Can we psychologically die to everything that is past now? This is really tough. But JK says, it is only a question of seeing & enhanced awareness. You can be free of your past once you are able to see that it doesn’t exist now. It’s gone in the nothingness. This is so simple that we miss it completely. It’s gone forever.  So why worry or try to relive it?

All that we know cannot conjure up the truth. The truth, says JK, is beyond what we know.  Do you see this?   

Whatever we have known & experienced is but past. The truth is ever new.  The now.  Do you see this? The truth is tremendous amount of awareness & one’s availability to the present. To what “is”!