The Mirror of Relationship: Love, Sex, and Chastity: From the Talks and Writings of J. Krishnamurti by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti [Krishnamurti, Jiddu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781888004052
Amazon: 1888004908
Publisher: Krishnamurti Publications of America
Published: 1992-12-01T23:00:00+00:00

V. On Chastity

Why do you separate sex from seeing the beauty of a mountain or the loveliness of a flower?

Chastity as a means to truth is a denial of truth

A disciplined heart, a suppressed heart, cannot know what love is

The effort that has gone into suppression, into control, into this denial of your desire, distorts your mind

If there is disorder in my life in regard to sex, then the rest of my life is in disorder

When we see this whole picture, then love, sex, and chastity are one.

That morning the river was tarnished silver, for it was cloudy and cold. The leaves were covered with dust, and everywhere there was a thin layer of it—in the room, on the veranda and on the chair. It was getting colder; it must have snowed heavily in the Himalayas; one could feel the biting wind from the north, even the birds were aware of it. But the river that morning had a strange movement of its own; it didn’t seem to be ruffled by the wind, it seemed almost motionless and had that timeless quality which all waters seem to have. How beautiful it was! No wonder people have made it into a sacred river. You could sit there, on that veranda, and meditatively watch it endlessly. You weren’t daydreaming; your thoughts weren’t in any direction—they were simply absent.

And as you watched the light on that river, somehow you seemed to lose yourself, and as you closed your eyes there was a penetration into a void that was full of blessing. This was bliss.

He came again that morning, with a young man. He was the monk who had talked about discipline, sacred books, and the authority of tradition. His face was freshly washed, and so were his robes. The young man seemed rather nervous. He had come with the monk, who was probably his guru, and was waiting for him to speak first. He looked at the river but he was thinking of other things. Presently the sannyasi said, “I have come again, but this time to talk about love and sensuality. We, who have taken the vow of chastity, have our sensuous problems. The vow is only a means of resisting our uncontrollable desires. I am an old man now, and these desires no longer burn me. Before I took the vows I was married. My wife died, and I left my home and went through a period of agony, of intolerable biological urges; I fought them night and day. It was a very difficult time, full of loneliness, frustration, fears of madness, and neurotic outbursts. Even now I daren’t think about it too much. And this young man has come with me because I think he is going through the same problem. He wants to give up the world and take the vow of poverty and chastity, as I did. I have been talking to him for many weeks, and I thought it might be worthwhile if we could both talk over this problem with you, this problem of sex and love.

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