I Refuse To Be Your Crutch

He (Krishnamurti) told the organisers of the camp, before it opened, that he would abolish the Order of the Star at once if it "claimed to be a vessel that holds the Truth and the only Truth". During the meetings (Ommen, Holland 1928) he was asked questions such as: "Is it true that you do not want disciples?"; "What do you think of rituals and ceremonials?"; "Why do you tell us that there are no stages along the Path?"; "As you tell us there is no God, no moral code and neither good nor evil, how does your teaching differ from ordinary materialism?"; "Are you the Christ come back?" Extracts given below from K's answers show how little those who asked the questions had understood him.

"I say again that I have no disciples. Every one of you is a disciple of the Truth if you understand the Truth and do not follow individuals... Truth does not give hope; it give understanding...There is no understanding in the worship of personality...I still maintain that all ceremonies are unnecessary for spiritual growth...If you would seek Truth you must go out, far away from the limitations of the human mind and heart and there discover it - and that Truth is within yourself. Is it not much simpler to make Life itself the goal than to have mediators, gurus, who must inevitably step down the Truth and hence betray it?...I say that Liberation can be attained at any stage of evolution by a man who understands, and that to worship stages, as you do, is not essential...Do not quote me afterwards as an authority. I refuse to be your crutch. I am not going to be brought into a cage for your worship. When you bring the fresh air of the mountain and hold it in a small room, the freshness of that air disappears and there is stagnation...I have never said there is no God. I have said there is only God as manifested in you...but I am not going to use the word God...I prefer to call this Life...Of course there is neither good nor evil. Good is that of which you are not afraid; evil is that of which you are afraid. So, if you destroy fear, you are spiritually fulfilled...When you are in love with life, and you place that love before all things, and judge by that love, and not by your fear, then this stagnation which you call morality will disappear...Friends, do not concern yourself with who I am; you will never know...Do you think Truth has anything to do with what you think I am? You are not concerned with the Truth but you are concerned with the vessel that contains the Truth...Drink the water if the water is clean: I say to you that I have that clean water; I have that balm which shall purify, that shall heal greatly; and you ask me: who are you? I am all things because I am Life."