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“The inner always overcomes the outer”

discovering the inward or spiritual dimension which K called the
religious mind.

To Stephen Smith it is clear that the modern world had lost its
moral compass. The march of Science had resulted in a value-free
world which has turned into a value-less and meaningless world. In
the history of mankind, we have now reached a moment of existen-
tial crisis, a do-or-die moment and it has been Krishnamurti’s role
to awaken mankind to the dire nature of this crisis. The message of
universal compassion of the Buddha and Jesus Christ had elevated
mankind to a certain extent but now it is the time to take another
existential leap. The courage to take this leap comes when, taught
by Krishnamurti, our intelligence awakens and in act of immediate
perception we grasp the whole in which the part which includes
thought, naturally finds its place. Everything depends on this clar-
ity. No outward action is adequate. With this immediate percep-
tion we recover our moral compass and discover the Dharma, the
moral foundation of the Universe and our Svadharma, our own
place and role in it. We can now respond to Krishnamurti’s call to
“incarnate now!”.
At the conclusion of these reflections can we “look at things as
they are”, at “what is?” When we do that, we find ourselves staring
at the face of the Covid crisis. Do the origins of this crisis lie in ‘the
outer’ or in ‘the inner’ or in the interaction of the two? Did the virus
jump from an animal species to the human spontaneously, or was
the jump caused by a deep inner imbalance between human beings
and the rest of the natural world? It seems that these questions can-
not be answered with full certainty at the present moment. How-
ever, it is clear that action in the ‘outer’ sphere is urgently needed by
way of a cure for the disease and for preventing its further spread.
While all attention now is focussed on finding the outward cure,
the need for looking inward forces itself on our attention. For the

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