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J. Krishnamurti's Philosophy of Psychology J. KRISHNAMURTI'S PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY Professor G.Vedaparayana “Philosophy means the love of truth, not social, economic, environmental and so on. love of words, not love of ideas, not love of Truth which is of the nature of supreme speculations, but the love of truth. And that intelligence and love alone can be the true means you have to find out for yourself and lasting foundation for a sane and where reality is and that reality cannot sustainable life-world. become truth. You cannot go through I. Nature of Philosophy reality to come to truth. You must understand the limitations of reality which According to Krishnamurti, philosophy is the whole process of thought”. Truth and is not an analysis of language, concepts or Actuality – J.Krishnamurti ideas, or a theoretical enterprise of building systems about the life-world. It is not a This article is an attempt at an exposition hermeneutics of human existence, text(s), or of Jiddu Krishnamurti's philosophy of symbol(s); or an art of persuasion aimed at psychology which is the “understanding” of convincing anybody about anything. It is the absolute and unconditioned truth also not a speculative theory of proving or transcending the “psyche”, put together by disproving the existence of God, truth or thought. Part I of the paper brings out soul; or an argumentative search for more Krishnamurti's philosophy as the realization and more reasonable knowledge or truth; of the timeless and nameless truth of a neither is it a body of justified true beliefs thousand names, which the human beings nor an activity of condemning a particular have been seeking throughout the ages. Part belief. To Krishnamurti, philosophy is not II is devoted to an explication of the nature an intellectual affair of inventing new ideas and content of the reality of thought which is or a diffusion of concepts; it is not the dependent on and conditioned by the professional or academic discipline which known. Part III elucidates the is exclusive of the truth and actuality of comprehension of truth through choiceless daily living; nor an accumulation of awareness of the limitations and the knowledge about truth, or a conceptual play fragmented nature of thought. Part IV deals of thought around it. in brief with the implications of truth for the individual and social well-being. The paper On the contrary, philosophy, according concludes with a note that the inward to Krishnamurti, is the love of truth which transformation of realizing the truth, which means direct perception or insight into the is beyond the material structure of thought, truth which is not thought. Thought is (of) is the only revolution that can save something whereas truth is (of) “nothing”; humanity from the crises of all kinds – thought is the past, memory or knowledge 1 Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, S.V.University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh Professor G.Vedaparayana whereas truth is what is happening “now”, at found through thought; it is the realization this moment. Philosophy is the perception that knowledge is not the way to wisdom. of truth from moment to moment; it is also Realization of truth is not thinking about it the art of being “nothing” and living life and the comprehension of wisdom is not an directly without the intermediary of accumulation of knowledge; perception of thought, idea of conception about it; it is truth is not the experience of it, for meeting life without a theory, a belief or a experience is the product of thought and system, and taking the very first step in the knowledge, and the response of thought to a right direction of living in the “present” challenge by naming it. Thought is reality without a shadow of the past and future, the confined to the realm of the known. It is products of thought. Philosophy is the always a movement from the known to the comprehension of life in the momentary known; a process of accumulating more and present which is beyond time as the more experience and knowledge without movement of the past modifying itself as the ever actually coming upon the truth which is present and the future; it is the experiencing the “unknown”; it is only in the complete of the truth of “what is” without the ending of the known that the unknown experience; it is the movement of the mind happens to be; it is only in the absolute in meditation without the meditator; the art cessation of thought that there is the arising of living without a division as the thinker of truth; ending of thought is the beginning and thought, the “me” and the “other”, and of truth, the supreme intelligence; it is in the the “I” and the world. Krishnamurti says, ending of time that the timeless “begins” to “Life is what is happening at this instant, not be. Krishnamurti says, “Philosophy means an imagined instant, not what thought has the love of truth, not love of words, not love conceived. So it is the first step you take of ideas, not love of speculations, but the that is important. If that first step is in the love of truth. And that means you have to right direction, then the whole life is open to find out for yourself where reality is and that you. Right direction is not towards an ideal, reality cannot become truth. You cannot go a predetermined end. It is inseparable from through reality to come to truth. You must that which is taking place now. This is not a understand the limitations of reality which philosophy, a series of theories. It is exactly is the whole process of thought.”2 what the word ‘philosophy’ means – the Further, philosophy, according to love of truth, the love of life. It is not Krishnamurti, is deconditioning the mind something that you go to the university to which is caught in the “psyche” or the “self” learn. We are learning about the art of living put together by thought; it is the ending of in our daily life.”1 consciousness the content of which is put Philosophy is the understanding of the together by thought at the psychological fact that the truth of “what is” can never be level; consciousness or the mind as we Indian Journal of Philosophy, Religion & Culture 2 J.Krishnamurti’s Philosophy of Psychology know it to be is precisely the content which dying. You cannot live if you do not die constitutes the “self”; the “self” embodies psychologically every minute. This is not desires, images, beliefs, hatred, envy and so an intellectual paradox. To live completely, on; it is divisive, conflicting and wholly, every day as if it were a new contradicting within itself; it is also the loveliness there must be dying to everything source of ideas and ideals which are a of yesterday; otherwise you live barrier to meeting life directly and as it mechanically and a mechanical mind can actually is; the “self” is habituated to never know what love is or what freedom seeking pleasure and gratification which is.”3 inevitably result in pain and misery; it is the source of endless sorrow, for it is the Further, philosophy, to Krishnamurti, is construction of thought which is a neither the accumulation of knowledge superficial response to the challenges of about truth nor thinking about it. life. Philosophy is putting an end to the Knowledge and thought are not the being of psyche through a clear understanding of its truth but only the conception about it; they nature and content; it is the “death” of the are of the past whereas truth is timeless and psyche constructed by thought for its own eternal; a philosopher is not the one who has sustenance and continuance; it is freeing gathered a lot of knowledge about truth(s); the mind of its crises by dying to everything he is not the one who is erudite and scholarly that thought has invented in the name of about truth with a variety of ideas and security, peace and happiness. Philosophy conceptions about it; a true philosopher is is living afresh by breaking the patterns of one who is truth itself; truth is the state of his life that thought has created; it is the art of being and not the process of his thinking; a living without fear, division, conflict, philosopher “may think certain things 4 images or beliefs which are the products of which would be reality, but he 'is' truth” , thought; it is the movement of the mind in says Krishnamurti. Philosophy, therefore, silence and solitude which thought can is the insight into truth by ending all never touch; it is responding to the knowledge about it; it is the instantaneous challenges with the mind that is empty perception of it by negating the knowledge within itself; the emptiness is not a state of which is additive and evolutionary; it is amnesia or blankness but a creative energy being one with truth by deconstructing the which is devoid of inward division and systems and doctrines woven around it. conflict. Krishnamurti opines “We have Philosophy is the awakening of intelligence accepted life with all its agony and despair and love by questioning the philosophies and have got used to it, and think of death as that have sacrificed the human being for the something to be carefully avoided. But establishment of their pet and petty death is extraordinarily like life when we concepts; it is the demolition of the know how to live. You cannot live without philosophies that have enslaved and 3 Indian Journal of Philosophy, Religion & Culture Professor G.Vedaparayana dehumanized humanity in the name of the nothingness is the beginning of wisdom” 6, utopian and grand eloquent series of avers Krishnamurti.
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