I was reading one article by J. Krishnamurti today morning on 'What causes Pain' that appeared in Sunday Pioneer. But I feel the correct heading could have been 'Misery of dependence'. He has expounded in his customary style the traps our mind so easily falls in, the psychology behind that occurrence and also our lack of awareness that complicates the situation. It all starts from the childhood when we develop these defensive techniques to protect us against any possible pain or hurt, by depending on some form of security - say mother, family, house, friends, love and so on. And these enter our sub-conscious and rule us throughout our lives without our knowing or ever suspecting the menace caused by them. Now can we get rid of this tendency to depend on persons or things? Can the mind realize this utter futility of the exercise of depending on and living in the illusion of these created securities? And what happens when the mind thus becomes free of all psychological dependence? JK calls it SANITY! It is this sanity which is the necessary and sufficient condition for discovery of Truth. The mind that has given us all its hooks and hinges and supports and is free from all books, theories, ideologies, all its dependence on persons, things, theories and God, is the ripe mind, it is unconditioned and free enough to inquire and discover the nature of Truth, fearlessly, boldly and freely!
Isn't it so?
Isn't it so?
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