|
Towards the end of June of this year representatives of the
four Krishnamurti Foundation met at Brockwood Park, England to talk over their present
and future responsabilities.
We were together for about ten days and during the
discussions their responsibilities and
functions became clear. It was important to have met and
shared together the various
problems of the work. We all felt that the Foundations
should not be fragmented but work
together as a whole, with the same intention and
seriousness.
This is what we talked about.
"As many of you may remember, I was once the head
of a worldwide organization founded
in 1911 with thousands of members in many countries. It
was dissolved by me in 1929.
I said then that there was no path to truth and that no
organization or organized belief as
religion can lead man to truth or is salvation. I said
then that in all so-called spiritual matters there is no
authority, no leader or guru, and that all following
perverts the follower. You have to be your own teacher and
your own disciple."
After all these years I still maintain this essential
truth. Following blindy or according to
pleasure or temperament does not bring man to freedom. And
without freedom there is
no truth. In all these many years of talks and dialogues
this has been the principal concern.
Today there are four Krishnamurti Foundations. These
are Krishnamurti Foundation
Trust Ltd in England, Krishnamurti Foundation of America,
Krishnamurti Foundation India and Foundacion Krishnamurti
Hispanoamericana. (1)
They exist only for simple and obvious reasons.
During my lifetime they arrange talks, group discussions,
seminars and gatherings. They are responsible for editing,
trtanslating and publishing the books. They are
responsible for
the care of archives. They produce films, audio and video
tapes, see to their distribution and
so on.
There are now five schools in India (2),and educational
centre with its school at Brockwood
Park in England, and there is going to be an educational
centre and school in the United
States in Ojai. All these schools function under the
Krishnamurti Foundations. It is the
responsability of the Foundation to see that these school
continue if possible after my death.
It is very definitely intended that in these school the
teaching, which are in no way sectarian -this would like to emphasize- are to be lived both by the
teacher and the student. The schools have importance for they may bring about a totally different human mind.
The Foundations have no autority in the matter of the
teachings. The truth lies in the teachings themselves. The
Foundations will see to it that these teachings are kept
whole,are no distorted, are no made corrupt. The
Foundation have no autority to send out propagandists or
interpreters of the teachings.
As it has been necessary, I have often pointed out that
I have no representative who will carry on with these teachings in my name now or at any time in
the future.
The Foundations will not give rise to any sectarian
sprit in their activities.
The Foundations will not create any kind of place of
worship around the teachings or the person.
In this chaotic and disintegrating world, what is of
the greatest importance is how each
person lives these teachings in his daily life. It is the
responsability of each human being to
bring about his transformation which does not depend on
knoweledge or time.
10 de Julio de l973.
J. Krishnamurti
(1) In 1976, Krishnamurti to decide that
Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada became the fifth
and last Foundation
(2) Now are seven schools in India.
(3) From the text it arises clearly that neither the
Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, nor the Krishnamurti
Foundation of America, nor the Krishnamurti Foundation India,
have authority to declare that the Fundación Krishnamurti
Latinoamericana (FKL), that only to exist in Spain, is the
successor of the original Fundacion Krishnamurti
Hispanoamericana (FKH) created by Krishnamurti in 1970.
|
