Krishnamurti Quotes

“There is a person called J. Krishnamurti who has ever had in view the end he would reach and in search of that end he has passed through many struggles, sorrows, pains. He has explored many avenues thinking they would lead to the goal. And then came the vision of the mountain top which is union with the Beloved, which is liberation, and from that moment he set aside all affections, all desires, all things except the attainment of the goal. And now that goal is reached and he has entered into the flame. And what happens after that does not matter—whether thespark remains within the flame or issues forth. And you may have the Beloved with you constantly even before you have become one with the Beloved.”
― Mary Lutyens, Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening

“On the evening of the 24th, Lady Emily recorded that K had a presentiment that it was going to be ‘an exciting night’, and sure enough the Lord Maitreya came and remained with K for a long time and left a message for the whole party. This message was read aloud to them by Nitya the next morning:

Learn to serve Me, for along that path alone will you find me
Forget yourself, for then only am I to be found
Do not look for the Great Ones when they may be very near you
You are like the blind man who seeks sunshine
You are like the hungry man who is offered food and will not eat
The happiness you seek is not far off; it lies in every common stone
I am there if you will only see. I am the Helper if you will let Me help.

These could well have been K’s own words; they were very much in the vein of the poems he would soon be writing. Or it could, of course, be argued that it was the Lord Maitreya who was to inspire K’s poems. At any rate this message was very different in style from the other messages that had been brought through.”
― Mary Lutyens, Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening

“Nitya did recover somewhat at ‘Ooty’, though on February 19 he was writing to Mary who, with Lady Emily and Betty, had just returned to Adyar from Delhi:

I’ve been in bed for four weeks and my bones are wearing through my skin. The number of times I walk to the precipice of death, look over and walk back again! It is becoming a habit with me. When I really do die at the mature age of 90 or so, I shall by force of habit continue to live ... it’s been the worst four weeks I have ever spent. To feel ill, feeble and a failure is a horrible combination. [He gave Mary some comfort by adding] whatever you do or don’t do I shall always love you.”
― Mary Lutyens, Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening

“Ratansi was still in London; Nitya had been riding with him every day in Richmond Park, going to theatres with him and drives in his Rolls-Royce, though evidently not enjoying himself, for, as he (Nitya) wrote to Madame de Manziarly, ‘Pleasures taken seriously become miserable duties.”
― Mary Lutyens, Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening

“One does not know what Lady Emily’s advice was about falling in love but later Krishna expressed surprise when she told him she was jealous. He was becoming reconciled to being without her. ‘...it is the question of the sun & the moon—never can they be together so the less said about it the better’, he wrote on April 18. In”
― Mary Lutyens, Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening