REPLY WITHOUT REACTION

Reply without Reaction ~ 161 ~ REPLY WITHOUT REACTION Mr. J Krishnamurti, 90, is a well-known Indian thinker. When he is on a public stage, he folds his hands and says, “Sir, I am a nobody” or, “Sir, I am just a passerby.” Are we all nothing on reality? His answer is, “Yes, when you are as nothing, you are everything.” Islamic thinkers disapprove of thoughts of this kind for they lead to scepticism or monism, and both are just a philosophical license for irresponsibility and monism. Yet there is an example from Krishnamurti’s life which can be quoted here with great pertinence. Mr. J. Krishnamurti is fortunate enough to find a large audience at every speech he makes. Thousands attend his talks year after year, but he feels unhappy at their failure to move along with him. At the end of his discussions in Madras in February 1984, he asked the audience: “Will you change, sirs?” and declared, “You’ll all go back and continue doing what you have been doing.” For more than 50 years he has been travelling round the