A Vision of the Sacred: My Personal Journey with Krishnamurti by Sunanda Patwardhan

Author:Sunanda Patwardhan
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Edwin House Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

DIALOGUE AS A TOOL

OF INVESTIGATION

The last fifteen years of Krishnaji’s life marked the rise of dialogues as a profound means of exploring the nature of reality and truth. There were a variety of dialogues, “gatherings” where a dialogue was held between a small number of people, not more than twenty or so. Then there were formally organized “seminars” not exceeding thirty, with invited participants from home and abroad. Finally, there were the informal but extremely penetrating “table conversations” at breakfast and lunch. Each had its own atmosphere.

In the dialogues, Krishnaji’s method of investigation was through inquiry and analysis. It is a paradox that the dialogues started with thought as the tool of investigation, whereas he had so often repeated the statement, “Analysis is paralysis.” Why was this so? Many have pointed to this contradiction. It is obviously clear to me that we have only thought as the instrument of investigation to question, probe, and come upon new discoveries, paradigms, and so on. So whatever the area of investigation be, we start with the analytical process and comprehend it. Krishnaji’s mind was such that it started, as he said, with not knowing. He then led the investigation with others, watching the flow of the dialogue and analyzing the issue. At some point, an insight would come that thought is an inadequate tool to understand the complexities of the psyche or to investigate into the nature of freedom.

Krishnaji once said to me, “A dialogue is very important, for it is a form of communication in which questions and answers continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus, the question is suspended between two persons involved in this. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms. If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and the answerer as persons have disappeared. At this stage, the investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, where it acquires a quality which thought can never reach.” It is at such a time that his statement, “Thought realizing its own limitation becomes quiet,” was significant. It was a new insight. He has shown how such a mind, when it is quiet, can use thought in a totally different manner. As I understand it, right perception helps us use thought in its right place.

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