Krishnamurti Foundation

By: Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon; ©1999
The Krisnamurti Foundation claims to set people free from their enslavements through Krishnamurti’s teachings.

Krishnamurti Foundation

Info at a Glance

Name: Krishnamurti Foundation of America.

Purpose: To disseminate Krishnamurti’s teachings and set people free from their enslavements. ā€œMy only concern is to set men absolutely unconditionally freeā€ (Lutyens’ biography, p. 297).

Founder: Jiddhu Krishnamurti.

Source of authority: Self.

Examples of occult potential: ā€œAwarenessā€ meditation.

Key literature: The Awakening of Intelligence; Commentaries on Living (multivolume); Freedom from the Known.

Attitude toward Christianity: Rejecting.

Quotes:

ā€œThe worship of authority, whether in big or little things, is evil, the more so in religious matters. There is no intermediary between you and reality; and if there is one, he is a perverter, a mischief-maker, it does not matter who he is, whether the highest savior or your latest guru or teachersā€ (D. Rajaqupal, ed., Commentaries on Living, First Series from the Notebooks of J. Krishnamurti, p. 66).

ā€œOne has to be a light unto oneself; following the light of another only leads one into darknessā€ (D. Rajaqupal, ed., Commentaries on Living, Third Series from the Notebooks of J. Krishnamurti, p.207).

Doctrinal Summary

God: Ineffable.

Jesus: A crutch; mythic.

Salvation: By ā€œexact awarenessā€ as defined by Krishnamurti.

Death: Concept vague.

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