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On Sorrow

J KRISHNAMURTI

e are concerned with the whole existence of
Wman and whether a human being can ever
be free from his travail, his efforts, his anxieties,
violence and brutality, and whether there is an end
to sorrow. Why have human beings, throughout
the ages, sustained and put up with suffering? Can
there be an ending to it all?
One must be free of all ideologies. Ideologies
are dangerous illusions, whether they are polit-
ical, social, religious, or personal. Every form of
ideology either ends up in totalitarianism, or in
religious conditioning—as the Catholic, the Prot-
estant, the Hindu, the Buddhist and so on; and
ideologies become such great burdens. So, to go
into the enormous question of suffering, one must
be free from all ideologies. One may have expe-
rienced a great deal of suffering which may have
brought about certain definite conclusions. But to
enquire into this question one must be utterly free
of all conclusions.
Obviously there is biological, physical, suffering,
and that suffering may distort the mind if one is
not very careful. But we are concerned with the
psychological suffering of man. In investigating
suffering we are investigating the suffering of all
mankind, because each one of us is of the essence
of all humanity; each one of us is, psychologically,
inwardly, deeply, like the rest of mankind. They