This teacher dissolved his own organization and "he believed the guru-disciple relationship to foster dependence and exploitation."
Society and history conditions us to search outside ourselves for the answer. The focus on the search for meaning, individuation, transforming our human experience into something "else" and defining/preparing for the afterlife takes over and diminishes the reality that we are one with the world and one with nature and it is a gift to our soul to have this experience in a living/breathing body. I like Krishnamurti's quote below on "Truth". Order of the Star In June 1927 the name of the organization was changed to Order of the Star, headquartered in Ommen, the Netherlands. In ongoing developments, Besant had proclaimed in January 1927 that "the World Teacher is here", [17] and many members expected Krishnamurti's unequivocal public proclamation of his messianic status. The renamed order had two objectives: [18]1. To draw together all those who believe in the Presence of the World Teacher in the world.2. To work with Him for the establishment of His ideas. However, Krishnamurti's emphasis, in public talks and private discussions, had changed, and he talked less about the expected World Teacher. This shift in emphasis mirrored fundamental changes in Krishnamurti as a person, including his gradual disenchantment with the "World Teacher Project", which led to a complete reevaluation of his continuing association with it. Finally, he disbanded the Order in Ommen on 3 August 1929, in front of about 3000 members and Besant herself. The Order had about 60000 members at the time. In his speech dissolving the organization, Krishnamurti said: "I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path." Krishnamurti denounced the concept of saviors, leaders and spiritual teachers, and soon after the dissolution severed his ties to Theosophy and the Theosophical Society. He returned to donors estates, property, and funds that had been gifted to the Order in its various incarnations, and spent the rest of his life pursuing an independent course, becoming widely known as an original, influential thinker and speaker on philosophical and religious subjects. Before dying, he stipulated that his house in Ojai must not be made a place of pilgrimage and that no cult be built around him. But 25 years after his death, people are still studying his life, reading his works, watching his lectures on YouTube, and trying to find their own way to the pathless land of Truth. His popularity and influence increased in the 1960s, when young people in America and Western Europe were questioning organized religion and other traditional values. With quotes that seem tailor-made for the hippie counterculture (“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society” or “Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay”) he would help inspire the New Age movement. But unlike other popular Eastern religious figures like Maharishi Maheshi Yogi or the homegrown cult leaders sprouting all over the West Coast in the late 60s and early 70s, Krishnamurti never sought adherents. He believed the guru-disciple relationship to foster dependence and exploitation.
