10/06/2026
You have heard all this, you have heard the ending of fear, the ending of sorrow, beauty and love, but the hearing is one thing and action is another. You hear all these things which are true, logical, sane, rational, but you won't act according to that. You will go home and begin all over again, your worries, your conflicts, your miseries. So one asks what is the point of it all? What is the point of listening to this speaker and not living it? In the listening and not doing is the wastage of your life. If you listen to something that is true and not act, you are wasting your life. And life is much too precious. It is the only thing that we have. And we have also lost touch with nature, which means we have lost touch with ourselves, which is part of nature. You don't love trees, the birds, the waters and the mountain. You are destroying the earth and we are destroying each other. And all that is such a waste of life. When one realises all this, not merely intellectually or verbally, then one lives a religious life. Not put on a loin cloth or go round begging, or join a monastery - that is not a religious life. A religious life begins when there is no conflict, when there is this sense of love, when you can love another, your wife or your husband, but that love is shared by all human beings, it is not given to one person and therefore restricted. So there is, if you give your heart and mind, brain, there is something that is beyond all time. And there is a benediction of that, not in temples, not in churches, not in mosques. That benediction is where you are.
J. Krishnamurti
Public Talk 4 Bombay (Mumbai), India - 10 February 1985
