UG Krishnamurti Interview With Rajiv Mehrotra | Doordarshan India
U.G. was born on July 9, 1918 in Machilipatnam, a coastal town of Andhra Pradesh, India, and raised in nearby Gudivada. His mother died seven days after he was born, and his maternal grandfather, a wealthy Brahmin lawyer who was also involved in the Theosophical Society, brought him up. U.G. also became a member of the Theosophical Society during his teenage years, mentioning that his grandfather “inherited” his association with the Theosophical Society. South Indian actress Gautami is his close relative, his great granddaughter being actor, writer and award-winning short film director Soumya Bollapragada.
During in his Young Age, U.G. Krishnamurty reportedly practised various austerities and apparently sought moksha or spiritual enlightenment. He undertook a variety of spiritual exercises between the ages of 14 and 21, determined to find out whether moksha was possible. He also decided to prove that if there were people who “realised” themselves, they could not be hypocritical. As part of this endeavour, he searched for a person who embodied such “realisation.” He spent seven Himalayan summers with Swami Sivananda studying yoga and meditating.
During his twenties, U.G. Krishnamurthy began studying psychology, philosophy, mysticism, and science at the University of Madras, but never completed a degree, determining that the Western answers - to what he considered essential questions - were no better than those of the East.
Having pursued and finally rejected a religious path in his youth, U.G. Krishnamurti experienced a devastating biological transformation on his 49th birthday, an event he calls “the calamity.”
He emphasised that this “natural state” transformation is a rare, acausal, biological occurrence with no religious context. UG discouraged people from pursuing the “natural state” as a spiritual goal.
U.G. Krishnamurti Died in Vallecrosia, Italy. He had slipped and wounded himself, sleeping seven weeks before his death.
U.G. had requested that no rituals or funeral rites be performed upon his death, and he had also left no instructions on how his body should be disposed of. The next day, Bhatt incinerated his body. U.G. did not want to be remembered after his death, in keeping with his own philosophy.
U.G. met well known spiritual Master Ramana Maharshi in 1939, aged 21. U.G. related that he asked Ramana, “Moksha, can you give it to me?” - to which Ramana Maharshi replied, “I can give it, but can you take it?” This answer altered U.G.’s perceptions of the “spiritual path” and its practitioners, and he never again sought advice from “those religious people.” U.G. would later say Maharshi’s answer, which he considered as “arrogant,” put him “back on track.”
People refer to me as a “enlightened guy” - a term I despise - because they can’t think of any way to describe how I function. Simultaneously, I point out that there is no such thing as Enlightenment. I say this because I’ve spent my entire life searching for and aspiring to be an enlightened man, only to realise that there is no such thing as enlightenment, and so the question of whether or not a particular person is enlightened is moot. I couldn’t care less about a Buddha from the sixth century BC, let alone all the other claimants we have in our midst. They are a group of exploiters who profit from the public’s gullibility. Outside of man, there is no power. Fear drove man to create God. So it’s fear, not God, that’s the issue.
U.G. decided to attend a talk by Jiddu Krishnamurti in Saanen after hearing about it. Jiddu was describing the state during the conversation, and U.G. mistook it for a reference to himself. He explained it this way
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