| Krishnamurti |
Early SpeechesHappiness and DesirePart 4 |
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| The Purpose of Life |
| Happiness and Desire |
| The Search |
| Formless Creation |
| The Immortal Friend |
Early
Speeches
What
is the ultimate goal for the body? Beauty. Everyone in the world is
seeking for beauty but they seek without understanding. It is essential
for the body to be beautiful, but it must not be a mere shell of beauty
without beautiful thought and feeling. Restraint is necessary for the body
- control without suppression.
These are the essentials for the absolute harmony of the three beings in each of us.
The desire for freedom, the desire to escape from all things, or rather to transcend all things, is necessary for the attainment of perfection. You can only free yourself if your mind and heart have determined their purpose in life and are continually struggling towards it, never yielding to those things which create barriers between yourself and your goal.
To attain perfection, to walk towards the goal of Truth which is eternal happiness for all, at whatever stage of evolution you may be, it is necessary to be rid of the binding narrow traditions that are born out of blind belief and have no touch with life.
As
when the rains come, only those who have prepared their fields and removed
the weeds will have the full produce of their labour, the full benefit of
the rain, so, if you would have the Beloved always with you, you must
remove from your mind and heart the complicated ideas, traditions, and
narrow points of view which are as weeds that kill true understanding. For
without understanding there can be no cooperation with life.
