Jiddu Krishnamurti House - Madanapalle

Jiddu Krishnamurti House - Madanapalle

Question: You are an Indian and an Andhra, born here in Madanapalle. We are proud of you and your good work in the world. Why don’t you spend more time in your native country instead of living in America? You are needed here.

KRISHNAMURTI: You know, it is a peculiar process that is going on in the world, this identification of oneself with a particular piece of land or with a so-called religion. Does it matter very much where you were born, or what language you speak, or what particular culture you were raised in? Look at what is happening in this country. We are breaking up into parts, calling ourselves Tamils, Telugus, Maharashtrians, and all the rest of it. This breaking-up process is maintained in Europe too, with the Germans, the English, the French, the Italians, and so on. When a man worships and identifies himself with the particular, his struggles become much greater, his misery increases. As long as I remain an Andhra, belonging to a particular class and to a particular religion, my mind is very petty, small, narrow. It is surely the function of the mind to break through all these limitations and find the whole, but the whole is not made up of parts. By putting many parts together, the whole is not to be found. It is only by not being entangled in the part that there is a possibility of seeing the whole immediately.

K , Madanapalle - 1956