Passages from The Mystique of Enlightenment

The Mystique of Enlightenment - U.G. Krishnamurti

There is no other bank, and there is no river to cross, no boat -- it is very difficult for you to understand that. You have created an image and put the image on the other side. I say "No, for goodness sake, I am on the same bank, there is no river to cross, and no boatman is necessary!"

The Mystique of Enlightenment - U.G. Krishnamurti

 

"Whomever it chooses, to him it happens."

The Mystique of Enlightenment - U.G. Krishnamurti

 

The hymns say "Whomever it chooses, to him it happens." That does not mean that there is any power outside of you. That potential is there in you already -- it has the capacity to explode. If through some strange chance, if through some luck, thought remains by itself without splitting itself into two, something has to happen to that. It is like an atomic explosion -- not one, but trillions. When it explodes, it blasts everything that is there. It is a chain reaction; one after the other, every cell is involved.

The Mystique of Enlightenment - U.G. Krishnamurti

Q: Do you mean that it is unnecessary for anyone to aspire?

UG: The aspiration is part of your consciousness. That has to come to an end; there is nothing that you can do to stop it. In other words, you cannot but do sadhana, you are doomed that way. Even if you drop sadhana, it creates a struggle in you -- you will replace it with another kind of sadhana, like JK's gimmick, choiceless awareness. You begin to practice those gimmicks, the same old nonsense --- the words are different, but the game is the same. But somewhere along the line the realization that that is not the thing has to dawn upon you; otherwise you will continue listening, hoping that listening to him the next time will make you understand. There is no chance of this. If anything has to happen, it has to happen here and now.