Oct 28, 2007 09:02 AM
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This book is edited by Frank and Narayana Murthy and it consists of general conversations between different questioners and U.G.KrishnaMurthy.
U.G.Krishnamurthy died recently, at the age of 89.( He is not J.krishnaMurthy as often people confused with)
This is not written by Cezery Wozcik as the title suggests . But Cezery has done the polish translation of the english book.
Like all other books of UG, this book also shatters your way of thinking. You will land into different world when you read his books and start questioning everything happening around you and to yourself.
One caution to readers: If you get influenced by someone quickly, then don't read this book. This might change your life completely for good or bad.
Trivia: Mahesh Bhatt, the famous film director, has been a follower of U.G after he was deluded by Rajaneesh(Osho) and he attributed all his sucesses to U.G. Mahesh Bhatt also wrote a biography book "U.G.KRISHNAMURTI-A Life "
All books on U.G including Thought is Your Enemy can be read at
https://ugkrishnamurti.net/
Some of the conversations from the book goes like this:
Q:Whatever you say, I feel that the only way for humanity to survive is to bring about a change in the heart - and that is Love.
A:No, not at all, because love implies division, separation. As long as there is division, as long as there is a separation within you, so long do you maintain that separation around you. When everything fails, you use the last card, the trump in the pack of cards, and call it love. But it is not going to help us, and it has not helped us at all. Even religion has failed to free man from violence and from ten other different things that it is trying to free us from. You see, it is not a question of trying to find new concepts, new ideas, new thoughts, and new beliefs.
As I said before, what kind of a human being do you want on this globe? The human being modeled after the perfect being has totally failed. The model has not touched anything there. Your value system is the one that is responsible for the human malady, the human tragedy, forcing everybody to fit into that model. So, what do we do? You cannot do anything by destroying the value system, because you replace one value system with another. Even those who rebelled against religion, like those in the Communist countries, have themselves created another kind of value system. So, revolution does not mean the end of anything. It is only a revaluation of our value system. So, that needs another revolution, and so on and so on. There is no way.
The basic question that we all have to ask for ourselves is, what kind of a human being do you want? The only answer to this human problem, if there is any answer, is not to be found through new ideas, new concepts, or new ideologies, but through bringing about a change in the chemistry of the human body. But there is a danger even there. When once we perfect genetic engineering and change the human being, there will be a tendency to hand this technology over to the state. It will then be a lot easier for them to push all the people into war and see that they can kill without a second thought. You don't have to brainwash them. You don't have to teach them love or patriotism. Brainwashing takes a century, [as, for example, ] brainwashing to believe in God took centuries. The Communists took decades to brainwash their people not to believe in God. But with genetic engineering, there is no need for that kind of brainwashing process. It is a lot easier to change human beings by giving just one injection
Q:Ordinary human beings like me would like to know if you could find answers for us.
A:The answers I give are only to emphasize that what we are left with is the functioning of the living organism. How it is functioning is all that I am trying to put across, emphasize, and overemphasize all the time. My interest is to somehow make you see that the whole attempt on your part to understand what you are left with is a lost battle.
