Krishnamurti Foundation
By: Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon; ©1999 |
The Krisnamurti Foundation claims to set people free from their enslavements through Krishnamurtiās teachings. |
Krishnamurti Foundation
Info at a Glance
Name: Krishnamurti Foundation of America.
Purpose: To disseminate Krishnamurtiās teachings and set people free from their enslavements. āMy only concern is to set men absolutely unconditionally freeā (Lutyensā biography, p. 297).
Founder: Jiddhu Krishnamurti.
Source of authority: Self.
Examples of occult potential: āAwarenessā meditation.
Key literature: The Awakening of Intelligence; Commentaries on Living (multivolume); Freedom from the Known.
Attitude toward Christianity: Rejecting.
Quotes:
āThe 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).
āOne 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 āexact awarenessā as defined by Krishnamurti.
Death: Concept vague.