Theos-Talk Archives (December 2000 Message tt00017)

To climb high one must begin low
Religious organizations become as fixed and as rigid as the 
thoughts of those who belong to them. Life is a constant change, 
a continual becoming, a ceaseless revolution, and because an 
organization can never be pliable, it stands in the way of change; 
it becomes reactionary to protect itself. The search for truth is 
individual, not congregational. To commune with the real there 
must be aloneness, not isolation but freedom from all influence 
and opinion. Organizations of thought inevitably become 
hindrances to thought. 

As you yourself are aware, the greed for power is almost 
inexhaustible in a so-called spiritual organization; this greed is 
covered over by all kinds of sweet and official-sounding words, 
but the canker of avariciousness, pride and antagonism is 
nourished and shared. From this grow conflict, intolerance, 
sectarianism and other ugly manifestations. 

Would it not be wiser to have small informed groups of twenty or 
twenty-five persons, without dues or membership, meeting 
where it is convenient to discuss gently the approach to reality? 
To prevent any group from becoming exclusive, each member 
could from time to time encourage and perhaps join another 
small group; thus it would be extensive, not narrow and 
parochial. 

To climb high one must begin low. Out of this small beginning 
one may help to create a more sane and happy world.

-Krishnamurti

The Book of Life: 
Daily Meditations with J. Krishnamurti
December Chapter



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