I read and listened J Krishnamurti for decades. I was experiencing something dizzying, because I had in my possession the first translations of Savitri by Raymond Thepot! However, detachment from the egoistic engagement with life and people only gives us half the secret ndeed, there is no place for the divine play in K’s teaching. Detachement, It helps us experience these powers in their impersonality. It does not give us the law of their action or the secret of personal relationship which is also an aspect of creation.
Yes. I had also read JK among many others during the early phase of agnosticism and the intellectual exploration. That is when I understood the incompleteness of many teachings. Great though they were in their own place, they could not satisfy my deepest seekings.
By law I mean how do these Divine Powers act? What are the conditions if any? For example Divine Love surely does not necessarily conform to our idea of love, not does Divine Wisdom and Divine Omnipotence. Since they do not fit into our schema we tend to either discard their possibility or else fill in the blanks by various metaphysical theories. But growing up with Sri Aurobindo and The Mother one gets a clearer picture of the Divine Action, of the Divine Play not by resorting to theory but in actual practice.
Thus, for example, what exactly is Love, how it works in creation, more importantly, how can one embody its energy and power in its purest form, what are its effects? It is to understand the play of the Divine Forces as an alchemist. Love requires inner purity, strength and wideness. By purity is meant to be under the influence of the Divine Will (which automatically implies inner detachment). It brings beauty, harmony, joy and at its highest, has the power of transformation in it. It can be tapped rightly through the psychic opening which is behind but not our emotional being. The emotional being easily comes under the influence of ego and desire. But the psychic being acts under the impulsion of the Divine Will giving the first clue to the personal action of the individual.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
