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CHAPTER 3. IN SEARCH OF A LOST TREASUREMy own understanding is, that it was somewhat of a perversion of compassion. You should not beso insistent; you should make available whatever you have. If somebody choses it, it is his freedom;if somebody does not, it is his freedom. You cannot impose your ideas upon others.Even though the ideas were about freedom, the difficulty was that he was talking about freedom,but he wanted you to agree with his ideas about freedom. He could not see that even this is forcingslavery, a psychological slavery, on people.You can simply share your vision of freedom, and that’s all. It is up to the people. If something ringsa bell in their hearts, good; if nothing rings into their hearts, what can you do? You cannot forcesomebody to freedom. And what kind of freedom will it be, which is forced? – that you are free,under machine guns!You can simply give the idea, and forget all about it. And as far as I am concerned, I considerenlightenment the greatest entertainment. Only the enlightened person can really entertain, enjoy,laugh. What can miserable people do about it?I refused to meet him for the simple reason that I did not want him to be unnecessarily angry. Hewas sick, old, and he knew as well as I knew, that there is no way to come to an agreement.I am a complete discontinuity with the past idea of entertainment, or the past idea of enlightenment.Krishnamurti was still a very old type, stubborn, and always thought that what he is saying is theonly truth. There are many aspects to truth. There are many ways to present it. And all that a man oftruth needs is to share his vision lovingly, peacefully, with absolute freedom for anybody who wantsto join in his exploration of reality. If somebody does not want to join, it is not right to be angry. Youranger shows that you were expecting that he should join.If you don’t understand me, nothing is wrong. It is your freedom not to understand. I never take noteof it whether you understand me or not. I go on, on my way. If somebody likes to be with me, afellow traveler, as long as it is good... And if he wants to depart at a certain point, it is perfectly hisfreedom.But my approach and Krishnamurti’s approach are bound to be different, because I had no master inmy life. That has given me a totally different space to work from. Because I have never been undera master, I can give you total freedom. I have enjoyed total freedom myself. I have never listened toanybody, I have just lived the way I wanted. And that is my message to you: live the way you want.I can share my understanding with you – you can choose. There is no need for me to be angry.Krishnamurti was forced to become enlightened. For twenty-five years the Theosophical Movement,particularly the president, Annie Besant and one of the spokesmen, Leadbeater, kept him almostimprisoned. He was not allowed to meet ordinary people. Their idea was to present suddenly to theworld a world teacher. So they were preparing the ground for a world teacher to come, who wouldsave the whole of mankind. They were spreading books, literature, that ”soon the world teacher isto appear.”They were hiding Krishnamurti and five other children – because who knows who will be right at theright time? Four were rejected, one died, and Krishnamurti was chosen to be a world teacher, butHyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 48 Osho
CHAPTER 3. IN SEARCH OF A LOST TREASUREhe was completely trained for it. Even books were written in his name by Leadbeater. A great book,AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER, is supposed to have been written by him when he was thirteenyears of age – and he himself does not remember! Later on when asked, ”Have you written thisbook?” He said, ”I don’t remember.” The reality is, he never wrote that book. That book – and I havelooked deeply into Leadbeater’s other books – is in the same style. It is the same man, Leadbeater,who has written that book in the name of J. Krishnamurti. It is to prove to the world that it is not anordinary human being, but a divine incarnation – that at the age of thirteen he was writing such agreat book.The book is certainly great, and Leadbeater was a very articulate writer and well-studied man. Hechose J. Krishnamurti and his brother Nityananda just when Krishnamurti was nine years old.Those two boys were playing in the river, near Adyar in Madras, where the headquarters of theTheosophical Movement was. Leadbeater saw those two boys swimming and enjoying in the river,throwing water at each other. And he was certainly a very perceptive man – he could see thatsomething great was possible with these two boys. He found three other boys. They all becamegreat in their own fields.Nityananda died because of too much discipline. He was a very fragile person. They had to wake upat three o’clock, to go through all kinds of rituals, to listen to scriptures, to eat only certain things...One of the great difficulties with Leadbeater was, he was a homosexual. And he abused every child,including J. Krishnamurti. There was a case against Leadbeater in Madras High Court. When thefather of these two children – he was a poor man, a poor clerk whose wife had died and so he wasin trouble about how to manage these two boys and his office... So when Leadbeater proposed theidea that Annie Besant could adopt them, the father was very happy. Annie Besant was a worldfamouswoman.He gave the adoption to Annie Besant, but it was discovered by many people that those smallchildren had been sexually abused by Leadbeater. So the man appealed to the high court: ”I wantmy children to be returned me. They are being homosexually abused by Leadbeater.”To avoid the situation, the judge was ready to return the children because there were witnessesof this abuse. Annie Besant, being a very famous British woman, managed to smuggle all thosechildren to England before the court orders were passed. This was easy for her because India wasunder British rule, and Annie Besant was a powerful woman. So she managed to take the childrenout of the country.Then when the magistrate’s orders were issued, saying that the children should be returned, thechildren were not there.She did not put those children, J. Krishnamurti included, into any state school. This was sucha guarded phenomenon – in a public school he may have started smoking, he may have startedbehaving like ordinary students. He was kept almost a prisoner. Private tutors were teaching him,and all kinds of nonsense – religious, scriptural – was forced upon him.All this created a situation in which he revolted.Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 49 Osho
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