05/18/2026
Jiddu Krishnamurti describes his awakening:
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"On the first day while I was more conscious of the things around me,
I had the most extraordinary experience.
There was a man mending the road;
that man was myself;
the pickaxe he held was myself;
the very stone which he was breaking up
was a part of me;
the tender blade of grass
was my very being,
and the tree beside the man
was myself.
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I could feel and think like the roadmender,
and I could feel the wind passing through the tree,
and the little ant on the blade of grass I could feel.
The birds, the dust, and the very noise
were a part of me.
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Just then there was a car passing by at some distance;
I was the driver,
the engine,
and the tyres.
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I was in everything,
or rather everything was in me,
inanimate and animate,
the mountain,
the worm,
and all breathing things.
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All day long
I remained in this happy condition.
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What you are ...
what you actually are,
is being.
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Being is not the mind thinking.
Thinking is a movement,
a motion.
Being is the silence
that precedes the motion.
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You cannot see it,
you cannot grasp it
because you are it.
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The feeling that you are,
the unadorned naked awareness
that is always there,
rarely heeded,
is what you always have been,
always will be,
cannot not be.
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You can't look for it
because it is what is looking.
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It is like space,
you can't see it
but everything is in it.
Everything is it."
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
