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The Natural State, In the Words of U.G. Krishnamurti

By: U.G. Krishnamurti, Edited by Peter Maverick

...perience something so unusual that it cannot be placed in any category of human thought. Don’t underestimate the power of his words. Here is an or... ...d. He is perhaps more of a phenomenon of nature—something outside of what human beings have created. Something happened to him in his 49th year, an ... ... acausal release from the dominance of the thought structure that encases human beings. U.G. calls this state he is in "the natural state", and he fu... ...our current belief system. But if you see how penetrating his analysis of human belief is, you may be forced to drop many of your most cherished ide... ...estern, mysticism, all the modern sciences, everything. The whole area of human knowledge I started exploring on my own. Before my forty-ninth yea... ...l state and not another person, I don't know. Perhaps it's written in the cells. It is acausal. It is not an act of volition on your part. You can't... ... and its functioning or working is quite different from that of the other cells. So the whole chemistry of the body has to change. It has to under... ...f that light activates the optic nerves which in turn activate the memory cells. When the memory cells are activated, all the knowledge you have abou... ...ith the cell next to it. Out of the terror of annihilation, man, like the cells of his body, will learn to cooperate, but not out of love or compass...

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