Journal Writing-I (By J. Krishnamurti)

This journal by J. Krishnamurti, which is taken from Krisnamurti’s Journal 1992, Krishnamurti Foundation, India, features in B.Ed. 1^st Year’s General English book (Tribhuvan University). Here follow the key takeaways from the text:

• Journal of Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986), an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader
• Date of the journal: April 24, 1975
• Place: at his house at Malibu, Los Angeles, California

The main idea of the journal (Krishnamurti’s philosophical idea):

1. Krishnamurti describes and contemplates on the early morning of April 24. He describes it as a lovely morning, the purity of light, and for him time has stopped at that moment; it has become the timeless moment of meditation.

2. According to Krishnamurti, our life is ‘becoming’, and in becoming there is uncertainty and instability, there is corruption, there is desire to achieve, and fear of losing and dying.

3. Knowledge of the self is a construction of our thought, which is never stable, and so, is not the truth. Nothingness is the truth. That morning is one such moment of nothingness. Such moment is the moment of timeless beauty, loveliness and great joy.

4. Human beings have become insensitive and destructive to other creatures of nature because they think they are far superior to others.

5. “Time has bred consciousness with its content. Meditation is the emptying of consciousness of its content.”