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Truth is a pathless land j krishnamurti11/5/2023 You can form other organizations and expect someone else. For two years I have been thinking about this, slowly, carefully, patiently, and I have now decided to disband the Order, as I happen to be its Head. I have not been persuaded to it by anyone. “So these are some of the reasons why, after careful consideration for two years, I have made this decision. This is a greater thing than all pleasure, than all sacrifice. And this not because of authority, not because of salvation, not because of immolation for a cause, but because you really understand, and hence are capable of living in the eternal. Because of that true friendship–which you do not seem to know–there will be real cooperation on the part of each one. Because of that real understanding there will be true friendship. Such a body we must create, and that is my purpose. And they will concentrate, they will become the flame, because they understand. “But those who really desire to understand, who are looking to find that which is eternal, without beginning and without an end, will walk together with a greater intensity, will be a danger to everything that is unessential, to unrealities, to shadows. How childish! Who but yourself can tell you if you are beautiful or ugly within? Who but yourself can tell you if you are incorruptible? You are not serious in these things. “You are accustomed to being told how far you have advanced, what is your spiritual status. These can only be found within yourselves. “So you will see how absurd is the whole structure that you have built, looking for external help, depending on others for your comfort, for your happiness, for your strength. That key is your own self, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity. No one has the authority to hold that key. “Again, you have the idea that only certain people hold the key to the Kingdom of Happiness. As I said, if there were even one man who had been set free, that were enough. ‘How many followers have you? By their number we shall judge whether what you say is true or false.’ I do not know how many there are. “‘How many members are there in it?’ That is the first question I am asked by all newspaper reporters. But that is what you are doing when organizations become your chief concern. You use a typewriter to write letters, but you do not put it on an altar and worship it. No man from outside can make you free nor can organized worship, nor the immolation of yourselves for a cause, make you free nor can forming yourselves into an organization, nor throwing yourselves into works, make you free. This is an excerpt from his speech declaring this dissolution: On August 3, 1929, the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, Krishnamurti dissolved the Order before 3000 members. J Krishnamurti, the anticipated and pronounced World Teacher, was made Head of the Order. The Order of the Star in the East was founded in 1911 to proclaim the coming of the World Teacher.
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