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According to him self-knowledge is action, immediate, powerful, concrete, the only action which can bring us out of our state of confusion. It is as urgent, real and practical as leaping into a life boat at the time of shipwreck.'!
Krishnamurti, by virtue of his self-knowledge, leads us into a sphere in which there are no words, and thoughts become silent. With this we need to strengthen in us a state of mind which is keen observation and intense awareness, yet impartial, disinterested and simple, in the manner of a store-keeper looking after the registering of a swift coming and going of goods. He remakrs:
“Who can enlighten us about the secret meaning of a reaction. a fleeting emotion or the half-thoughts which, at all times of the day, under the pressure of life, constitute at once our substance and the key to ourselves? Who can decipher our inward book, the
words of which ever chase time, if not ourselves"?? Therefore, if we wish to know ourselves as we are, says Krishnamurti. "it can only be through our contacts, our exchanges, our conflicts. But if we isolate ourselves to meditate on self-knoweldge, we separate ourselves in fact from what. by making us react, would reveal to us our true nature'.:. Thus, one of the simplest procedures to know-oneself, to be aware about oneself, is to look into oneself silently and observe intensely, impartially, disinterestedly in the manner of the. storekeeper. referred to here above. It is the first step to become self-aware by the teacher.
Krishnamurti suggests some other procedures which can immediately lead us to self-awareness. He reflects :
"It is not a technique that you develop. cultivate and increase through time, through constantly sharpening. This awareness of oneself can be tested, surely, in the action of relationship; it can be tested in the way we talk, the way we behave. Watch yourself without any identification, without any comparison, without any condemnation; just watch, and you will see an extraordinary thing taking place. You not only put an end to an activity which is unconsciousness - because most of our activities are unconscious - you not only bring that to an end, but, further. you are aware of the motives of that action, without inquiry without digging into it."(")
Watching oneself without any indentification, comparison and condemnation would lead one to the state of self-awareness. And when once a person is aware, he can see the whole process of his thinking and action. Just being aware without any sense of justification -- which may appear rather negative but it is not negative. On the contrary, it has the quality of Passivity, which is direct action in which one will discover everything so clearly. To clarify this idea of passivity, Krishnamurti says:
January-March 1993 Jain Education International
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| SR No. | 524573 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 1993 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Parmeshwar Solanki |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 1993 |
| Total Pages | 156 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 9 MB |