U.G.Krishnamurti

U.G. Krishnamurti: Born in 1918, Krishnamurti began his quest for moksha, liberation, in his teens.

Not to be confused with Jiddu Krishnamurti, U.G. was known as the “anti-guru”, meaning he refused to become a guru, though he was a philosopher and speaker. He strongly objected to the term “enlightenment” and “spirituality” and attacked all forms of human thought. He claimed no copyright on any of his prolific work, as he claimed that Truth could have no copyright. Human self-consciousness, the ego, was not a thing but a movement, one characterized by “perpetual malcontent” and a “fascist insistance” on it’s own importance.

"The so called self-realization is the discovery for yourself and by yourself that there is no self to discover. That will be a very shocking thing because it's going to blast every nerve, every cell, even the cells in the marrow of your bones.”

Studying with Sivananda, he travelled to meet with Ramana Maharshi in 1939, where he asked the master: "This thing called moksha, can you give it to me?" - to which Ramana Maharshi purportedly replied, "I can give it, but can you take it?". This answer, which he later called “arrogant” put U.G. “back on track.”

Of Jiddu Krishnamurti, U.G. studied with him, finally ending his assocation after this inquiry: I insisted, "Come on, is there anything behind the abstractions you are throwing at me?" And that chappie said, "You have no way of knowing it for yourself". Finish -- that was the end of our relationship, you see -- "If I have no way of knowing it, you have no way of communicating it. What the hell are we doing? I've wasted seven years. Goodbye, I don't want to see you again". Then I walked out.

His travels ended in Switzerland with his realization that his Buddha nature state was already in him. As he asked himself, how did he know he was in this state? What followed is what he called the calamity:

“I call it calamity because from the point of view of one who thinks this is something fantastic, blissful and full of beatitude, love, or ecstasy, this is physical torture; this is a calamity from that point of view. Not a calamity to me but a calamity to those who have an image that something marvelous is going to happen.”

Describing his post-calamity life, he claimed to be functioning permanently in what he called "the natural state": A state of spontaneous, purely physical, sensory existence, characterized by discontinuity - though not absence - of thought.

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