Human beings have lived for thousands of years on the surface of their consciousness leading to widespread unrest and violent clashes. Unfortunately, religious practices too ended up dividing humanity and sustaining hatred across the divisions. Great Masters appeared here and there at different periods in history and attempted to wake people up to deeper awareness that would lead to unity and harmony. However, in spite of their well-meaning presentations, their messages were wrapped up by people into sectarian religious practices and the consequent unfortunate deterioration. However, the messages of some Masters could not be encapsulated into religious systems. To that extent, they made sure that they did not allow further divisions to precipitate from their communications. J. Krishnamurti was one such whose messages had the content of unifying humanity. He was affectionately called Krishnaji.Krishanji was born and brought up in South India and was later taken to England by the theosophist Annie Besant. During his teenage and further years, he had a strange transformation that took him away from the conventional neurology into a higher dimension of consciousness. All great Masters had this ravishing transformation into super-consciousness and that is why they were called Enlightened Beings. The Sanskrit word for it is Thathagatha, meaning the one who has gone beyond and returned.
Once settled in the new dimension of universal consciousness, Krishnaji began his communications with people to alert them so they can release themselves from the habitual neurology and move them into unfathomable inner tranquillity, conducive to Divine awareness. For about sixty years, he was invited to give talks and hold discussions in Europe, India, America and other places. He never encouraged the guru-disciple kind of relationship as it would only encourage people fall into self-enclosing systems. Typically, his talks were free of the preaching type which are filled with Dos and Don’ts in order to achieve some ego-satisfying results.
His Primary Message
Those people who listened to Krishnaji felt intuitively that they should free themselves from group psychology and strike their own trails on their journey of discovery. It is obvious that group psychology is different from mob psychology only in degree and not in kind. Above all, he emphasized pure self-awareness as the prime-mover towards transforming the mind from its shallowness to one of in-depth awareness. The mind then moves into a state of natural silence without compulsion. That helps one be an affectionate bystander to oneself, progressively clearing the mind of its accumulations and conflicts.
The NDE
Many episodes of Near Death Experiences (NDEs) show pointers to the same focus that Krishnaji was emphasizing. Those who go through a NDE feel intensely about life and the unqualified love towards all living beings, cutting across barriers of nationality, religion, language etc. People who feel drawn to that state of mind sense a deeper purpose to life than just trying to book a place in eternal heaven when life ends. To those people, Krishnaji’s messages would serve as a catalyst to bring the NDE spirit to prevail in their daily lives. He thus functions as a compassionate wayside companion to the listeners through his insightful talks and pointers.
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