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Why I Value Krishnamurti’s Teachings

mouth might elicit all sorts of reactions from others, many of them
unpleasant.
To properly explore whether or not someone who attained the
pivotal transformative insight to which Krishnamurti points would,
should, or could assert it would require a separate essay. There cir-
culates the implicit notion that since there is no unconditioned ‘I’,
for someone to assert realization is a mark of delusion. Perhaps,
but most apparently-realized teachers, including Krishnamurti,
asserted their realizations. Therefore, perhaps holding onto the
idea that one cannot, would not, or should not assert realization is
simply an instance of one’s own thought-fixated entrapment. Even
so, we may also reasonably assume that there are people that have
been inspired by Krishnamurti, who are truly deluded about the
nature and depth of their realizations, erroneously believing that
they have fully grasped his teachings. Some of these may also keep
silent, but offer judgments on others. It is conceivable that some
segments from within both those groups (the realized and the
deluded) have gone on to teach about their realizations, perhaps
initiating some new lineages or inhibiting them from forming, just
as Krishnamurti attempted to do.
Since many people worldwide, but particularly in Asia, believe
in reincarnation, it would not at all be unusual for someone to
claim to be a reincarnation of Krishnamurti. Speculations about
reincarnations of Krishnamurti’s brother, Nitya, and others who
were close to Krishnamurti circulate in some Theosophical cir-
cles. Krishnamurti’s final recorded message undercuts any such
attempts at assertions about his reincarnated consciousness or
even that his consciousness might be channelled psychically. He
asserted that no portion of ‘Krishnamurti consciousness’ would
endure after his death, or return like that of a reincarnating bodhi-
sattva. To me, Krishnamurti’s final recorded message was partly
intended to circumvent anyone from garnering spiritual authority

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