Talks with Students: Varanasi 1954 by Krishnamurti

Author:Krishnamurti [Krishnamurti]
Language: eng
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Publisher: Krishnamurti Foundation India
Published: 2017-05-28T04:00:00+00:00

Question: What is jealousy?

KRISHNAMURTI: Don’t you know what jealousy is? When you have a toy and the other person has a bigger toy, don’t you want that bigger toy? When you have a small bicycle and you see a big beautiful bicycle, don’t you want that? That is jealousy. On that jealousy, people live, exploit, multiply.

Please, will the teacher who is responsible for that boy’s education explain this to him. Please take the time and the trouble to point out what jealousy is—if you understand what jealousy is yourself.

Jealousy begins in a small way and then one gets drawn into a stream of action, clothed under so many names. We all know jealousy. That little boy wants to know what jealousy is. Do not say it is wrong or right, do not condemn it. Do not tell him it is not desirable to be jealous, that jealousy is ugly, evil. What is evil is your condemnation of it, not jealousy itself. Please explain to him the whole business of jealousy, how it arises, how our society is based on jealousy, how our instincts are based on it, how it shapes all our actions. You do not condemn a map, you do not say the road should not go that way. You do not say that the villages should be here and not there; the villages are there. Similarly you must look at jealousy and not try to push it aside, not try to transform it, not try to make it idealistic.

Jealousy is jealousy. You cannot make it into something else. But if you can look at it, understand it, then it gets transformed; you do not have to do a thing about it. If you can explain this deeply to every boy and girl, we shall produce quite a different generation.

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