Who is investigator?


One sees very clearly that the problem is not in external world but much more deeply inward. And without solving the complex, inward issues, merely to be concerned with the outward phenomenon has very little significance. And I feel, observing all this, that one must take a totally different action, enter into a totally different dimension, neither belonging to any religion or any country, any politics, totally uncommitted so that one can look clearly, objectively, sanely at all the phenomenon that is going on around us and within us. That is why I happen to be here.

If you and I are both serious in understanding this whole phenomenon of existence, not only the outward but also much more deeply inward, and be totally concerned with the resolution of this problem, then you and I, the speaker and you who listen, have relationship, then we can move together, then we can think together, and share together. And sharing, thinking together, investigating together and therefore creating together, is communication.

Philosophy implies the understanding of truth in daily life, in daily action, which has nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity, with Buddhism, with Hinduism or any culture. Division between human beings, between a wife and a husband, between friends, division of colour, race, classes and so on. Because of these divisions there can never be unity of mankind. 

What is demanded, what is necessary as one observes, is that there must be deep, psychological revolution. Or in freeing the mind from conditioning and therefore freedom, and in that freedom bring about a co-operative action.

You see human beings are so disorderly, so self concerned, so utterly selfish, and so religious throughout the world with their beliefs, dogmas, rituals, saviours, and all the rest of that circus, have tried to condition man to behave through fear. So how a human mind, which has been so conditioned by the past, through the present to the future, how can such a mind be changed radically?

It is one of the most difficult things to stand alone in the world. Not to belong to any nation, not belong to any ideology, not to belong to any particular kind of activity, left or right, not to repeat a single word that you yourself have not known. So that there is integrity, because if you belong to any organization, any group, follow any guru, anyone, you are not being honest. It means to be able to stand completely alone in a world that is so disorderly, divided, full of antagonism, bitterness and falsehood - can you do that? 

You know when there is no integrity, when there is no honesty and virtue, systems, organizations become tremendously important. Then the organizations, systems control the mind; but if the mind is really honest, straight, clear, then no system is required because it is totally virtuous.

So can you discard what another says you should think or do, so that you are face to face with yourself, directly first-hand. Reject the authority on which you depend for your belief, in which you have faith, in whom you acknowledge that someone else knows more than you do about yourself. So it brings you totally to yourself and therefore you have tremendous energy. One needs tremendous energy, to stand alone. And we have the intelligence to go beyond it. And that intelligence comes into being only when you don't depend on anybody, when you are face to face with yourself and with the problem. Intelligence is after all the capacity of total energy in application. 

Inward investigation demands energy, energy is the application of intelligence and intelligence cannot be if you are looking for help from another. He may be intelligent, but if you look to him you are ignorant. Right? Now how do you investigate? Who is the investigator?

My image of me is the dividing factor. So I must find out first who is the investigator. Is it one part of the many fragments of the 'me' who is investigating - one fragment says, "I will investigate into the different fragments", which is the 'me' that is conditioned - right?

(our memory always responds in the form of thoughts. One thought separates itself from other thoughts and becomes self). 

When you (self) investigate with a division, therefore it is not an investigation. So, to investigate, to enquire is to be free Self. Therefore the mind then is now clear, fresh. And when you proceed then is there an investigator at all? Then there is only observation, not investigation. Observing, which means having insight without self, therefore continuous insight. So the mind which is free from self, is free to observe and therefore act selflessly. 


J KRISHNAMURTI 

SAANEN 1ST PUBLIC TALK 16TH JULY 1972.

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