The Truth Lies Within You

The day before the camp (Ommen, Holland 1927) opened, before Mrs Besant arrived, K gave his first public answer to the question troubling so many: did he or did he not believe in the Masters and the occult hierarchy?

"When I was a small boy I used to see Sri Krishna, with the flute, as he was pictured by the Hindus, because my mother was a devotee of Sri Krishna...When I grew older and met with Bishop Leadbeater and the Theosophical Society, I began to see the Master K.H. - again in the form that was put before me, the reality from their point of view - and hence the Master K.H. was to me the end. Later on, as I grew, I began to see the Lord Maitreya. That was two years ago and I saw him constantly in the form put before me...Now lately, it has been the Buddha whom I have been seeing and it has been my delight and my glory to be with Him. I have been asked what I mean by the Beloved. I will give a meaning, an estimation, which you will interpret as you please. To me it is all - it is Sri Krishna, it is the Master K.H, it is the Lord Maitreya, it is the Buddha, and yet it is beyond all these forms. What does it matter what name you give?...What you are troubling about is whether there is such a person as the World Teacher who has manifested-Himself in the body of a certain person, Krishnamurti; but in the world nobody will trouble about this question. It is an unfortunate thing that I have to explain, but I must. I wanted to be as vague as possible, and I have made it so. My Beloved is the open skies, the flower, every human being...Till I was able to say with certainty, without any undue excitement, or exaggeration in order to convince others, that I was one with my Beloved I never spoke. I talked of vague generalities which everybody wanted. I never said: I am the World Teacher; but now that I feel that I am one with my Beloved, I say it, not in order to impress my authority on you, not to convince you of my greatness, nor of the greatness of the World Teacher, nor even of the beauty of life, but merely to awaken the desire in your hearts and in your own minds to seek out the Truth. If I say, and I will say, that I am one with the Beloved, it is because I feel and know it. I have found what I longed for, I have become united, so that henceforth there will be no seperation, because my thoughts, my desires, my longings - those of the individual self, have been destroyed... I am as the flower that gives scent to the morning air. It does not concern itself with who is passing by...Until now you have been depending on the two Protectors of the Order (Mrs Besant and Leadbeater) for authority, on someone else to tell you the Truth, whereas the Truth lies within you...It is no good asking me who is the Beloved. Of what use is explanation? For you will not understand the Beloved until you are able to see him in every animal, every blade of grass, in every person that is suffering, in every individual."