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    Krishnamurti: Two Birds on One Tree
    Krishnamurti: Two Birds on One Tree
    Krishnamurti: Two Birds on One Tree
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    Krishnamurti: Two Birds on One Tree

    By Ravi Ravindra

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    A longtime student and friend reveals both the spiritual greatness and the human pathos of his remarkable teacher.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQuest Books
    Release dateApr 1, 1995
    ISBN9780835631679
    Krishnamurti: Two Birds on One Tree

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      Krishnamurti - Ravi Ravindra

      LETTER TO J. KRISHNAMURTI

      It is precisely because I hear your call that I wish to write to you. The last time I heard you speak, I was once more convinced that this planet is blessed because Krishnamurti walks on it. This feeling adds to my urgency in writing to you. I can foresee the loss there will be when you are no longer here, corporeally visible, radiating palpable energy. Even though any one of us comes close to you at our own peril and must take the risk of being burned, something in your words encourages us to approach you.

      I wish, first of all, to say something arising out of our shared cultural and racial history. It is perhaps owing to this common ground that I sometimes fancy I could be your younger brother. In the vast history and mythology of our land, there has been a continual outpouring of spiritual greatness. Maybe this is the special calling and genius of the land of the Bharatas. In my view, you, Krishnamurti, stand foremost among the living bearers of this greatness. In your life and your words you have expressed, perhaps more strongly than anyone else, the need for freedom—from tradition, from history and from teachers. And yet you seem somehow bound by our tradition’s long sundering of the orders of time and eternity.

      I sense a distortion here which I hope you will help me reappraise. The death of Krishna, when the present age of Kali is said to have begun, marks a radical discontinuity, monumental in its consequences, in the vision of the greatest of our seers. Since that time scarcely any among them—in marked contrast to those of earlier ages—have honored the demands of the world of time simultaneously with the demands of the world of Eternal Intelligence.

      The first time I heard you speak was in a public place in India, not far from an exhibition of armaments captured in a recent war. The exhibition, designed to feed the euphoria of a claimed victory, took place near the center of political power in our country. There you sat, physically frail, a spiritual giant. You inveighed against the hypocrisy and stupidity of our rulers with such moral authority that, for a few moments, my heart cherished the hope of a new age dawning in our land, which has been impoverished for a millennium by barbarians who considered winning the world more important than wooing the Spirit.

      We had, no doubt, prepared our own ruin. When one of our greatest sons, Gautama Buddha, having conquered the higher kingdom, did not see fit to rule the lower, our later troubles should have been foreseen. From that time onwards, our saints have not been heroes, and our heroes have not been wise. If we had ceased to respond to the demands of our spiritual destiny, there would have been no reason for our continued existence. But what happened was that we did not give the world its due, and the world took vengeance, imperiling our very

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