Sutra on ‘The Importance of the Intention’
“Therefore, it is important to discover these things for ourselves because self-Knowledge cannot be given to us by another, it is not to be found through any book. We must discover and to discover, there must be the intention, the search, the inquiry. So long as that intention to find out, is to inquire deeply, is weak, or does not exist, mere assertion or a casual wish to find out about oneself is of very little significance.”
-J. Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom,
Pgs.31-32, KFI, Chennai, Reprinted 2016.
Sutra on ‘A Radical Mutation in the Mind’
“When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts, he will see the division between the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation, which is insight without any shadow of the past, or of time. This timeless insight brings about a deep, radical mutation in the mind.”
-J. Krishnamurti, [1980, Copyright, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd]
Sutra on: Virtue and Freedom
“The understanding of what you are, whatever it be - ugly or beautiful, wicked, or mischievous – the understanding of what you are without distortion is the beginning of virtue. Virtue is essential, for it gives freedom. It is only in virtue that you can discover that you can live with dignity and in freedom-not in the cultivation of virtue, which merely brings about respectability.”
J. Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom, Page 32,
KFI, Chennai, Reprinted 2016.
Sutra on ‘Aloneness.’
“The word itself, ‘alone’ means what it says – uninfluenced, innocent, free and whole, and not broken up. When you are alone, you may live in this world, but you will always be an outsider. Only in aloneness, can there be complete action and co-operation; for love is always whole.”
-J. Krishnamurti, Pg.66, The Only Revolution.
Sutra on: ‘Negating the self-Projected Answer.’
“We never consider the problem itself, but with agitation and anxiety grope for an answer, which is invariably self-projected. Though the problem is self-created, we try to find an answer away from it. To look for an answer is to avoid the problem - which is just what most of us want to do. Then the answer becomes all significant and not the problem.”
J. Krishnamurti (Pg.98, Sec 41, Commentaries on Living, Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1976, Seventh Impression.)
Sutra on the ‘Ending of Sorrow through self-Knowing.’
“Sorrow ends only when there is the light of understanding, and this light is not lit by one experience or by one flash of understanding; this understanding is lighting itself all the time. Nobody can give it to you- no book, trick, teacher, or savior. The understanding of yourself is the ending of sorrow.”
Sri. J. Krishnamurti, In ‘The Urgency of Change’, Pgs 95-97.
Sutra on ‘self-Knowing & the ending of Sorrow.’
“Knowing oneself is the ending of sorrow. We are afraid to know ourselves because we have divided ourselves into the good and the bad, the evil and the noble, the pure and the impure. The good is always judging the bad, and these fragments are at war with each other. This war is sorrow. …..This fragmentation of life into the high and the low, the noble and the ignoble, God and the devil, breeds conflict and pain. When there is sorrow, there is no love. Love and sorrow cannot live together.”
J. Krishnamurti in ‘The Urgency of Change’, Pgs 95-97.