Question: We are happy with our beliefs and traditions based on the doctrines of Jesus; whereas, in your country, India, there are millions who are far from being happy. All that you are telling us, the Christ taught two thousand years ago. What is the use of your preaching to us instead of to your own countrymen?
KRISHNAMURTI: Thought does not belong to any nation or to any race. (Applause) Reality is not conditioned by religious or racial distinctions; and because the questioner has divided the world into Christian and Hindu, into India and Argentina, he has helped to create misery and suffering in the world. (Applause) When I talk in India about nationalism, they say to me, Go to England and tell the people there that nationalism is stupid, because England is pre venting us from living. (Laughter) And when I come here you tell me, Go somewhere else and leave us with our own belief and religion. Do not disturb us. (Laughter)
If your own beliefs and traditions satisfy you, then you will not listen to what I say, because your traditions and your beliefs are shelters under which you take cover in time of trouble. You dont want to face life, therefore you say, I am satisfied; don disturb me. If you would really understand truth, if you would know love, you must be free from beliefs and organized religions. There cannot be your religion and the religion of another, your beliefs and doctrines as against another. The world will be happy when there need be no preacher, when each individual is really fulfilling; and as he is not, I feel I can help him in his fulfillment.
If you feel that I am disturbing, creating sorrow, then you will naturally remain in the religion to which you belong, with its exploitations and illusions; but life will not leave you alone. In that lies the beauty of life. However much you have protected and enclosed yourself within certainties, securities, and beliefs, the wave of life breaks down all your structure. But the man who has no support, no security, shall know the bliss of life.
The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti – Volume II 1934-1935: What Is Right Action?
Jiddu Krishnamurti