Questioner: Is a person in the natural state compassionate? U.G. Krishnamurti: That is your projection; they are callous, indifferent, unconcerned. 'Compassion' is one of the gimmicks of the 'holy business', sales talk. Do you think this individual is conscious that he is full of compassion? If he is, it is not compassion.
------------ UG would not have know compassion even if it reared up and bit his natural ass. The typical connotation of the term "compassion" is someone being compassionate( in whatever manner) to someone who needs to be compassionated. Whether the natural state or the unnatural state(there being really no suchdistinction)... ..there are no entities involved ......where...... as a nuance of existing.... the flavour is of compassion, empathy, enmity or indifference. That is to say......it is not that when some esoteric exalted state ofsagacity has happened...... only after that event.........there is no entity involved, there is no separation involved. Non-entitification, non-separation, is the case, whether in the particularmilieu... ... a sage (as held by the audience to be a sage) speaks to a seeker......or two warring nations threaten to obliterate the other .....in the name of democracy or in the name of Allah. Whether it is seen to be acts of compassion or genocide...... .....it is always the Duet of One. In this Duet of One......compassion or empathy......is akin the rushing of the hand to cup the bleeding toe and ease the pain, when the toe got stubbed. The compassionate hand does not see itself separate to the bleeding/painfultoe. Nor does it see itself as the same. The ideation of separation or the ideation of non-separation...... .....both are meaningless, irrelevant in the immediacy of the actioning. Even the term "immediacy" is misleading for it suggests that there are some actions which are spontaneous and some which are delayed in time......being affected by deliberation, pondering, thinking etc etc. The deliberation is immediate, the pondering is immediate, the reflection is immediate and the physical actualization of all these immediate mentations......into an action or series of actions (if at all).......is also immediate. When there is nothing which is not immediate........the term immediacy becomes superfluous. That is why the apperception of Advaita is the immediate primordial mirth at the concept of both Dvait as well as Advait.
