J. Krishnamurti as I Knew Him by Susunaga Weeraperuma

Author:Susunaga Weeraperuma
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited
Published: 2014-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

Recipe for Removing Racism

I was the victim of various acts of racial discrimination during the fourteen years that I lived in England. The virus of racism manifested itself in a thousand subtle ways. I was jeered at because of my brown complexion. I was also the butt of jokes with racist overtones. I was deliberately deprived of promotions and underpaid by several employers. K was acutely aware of my secret suffering. “Are they treating you well?” was a question which he frequently asked me. One of the many valuable things I learned from him was never to retort an insult. K counselled against taking retaliatory action: “Just observe your reaction to any unkind word and your hurt will wither away.” That was K’s recipe for living harmoniously in an unfriendly society.

A social worker posed the following question at a meeting in London: What is your solution to the existence of the colour bar which prevents the free association of persons of different colours?

K said: “Sir, aren’t we all coloured? Isn’t white also a colour?”

At a meeting in London K was discoursing on the nature of nationalism and how it was responsible for the break-up of the world into tiny fragments. An angry young man heckled K with shouts and asked a rude question: Why don’t you return to India and preach to your own primitive people?

K said: “Yes, sir, truth comes only to the person whose mind is primitive in the sense of its being simple and unconditioned.” K remained calm and never lost his composure despite the hostility of certain members of the public.

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