Tuesday, October 26, 2021

The esoteric Krishnamurti


I don´t remember where I read this...

Exoterically, Krishnamurti had a message many people associated with Advaita Vedanta or some form of Buddhist modernism. However, K also had an esoteric message. He believed in...the shakti. If so, what he calls "Love" in his public speeches is really Shakti. However, K refused to teach kundalini yoga to Westerners, since it was too dangerous (probably a true observation, all things considered). 

This is why David Bohm became interested in K´s message. Bohm regarded the shakti as a very real energy field "beyond" or "behind" the cosmos. It could be accessed through our minds, if we could only find the right technique to do so. Bohm was a former Marxist who had given up on radical societal change through material means. However, he still believed in the necessity of a world-wide transformation, and wondered whether access to this energy could change man - all men (and women) - for the better. In other words, he never gave up the global collectivist vision of Marxism. 

But as I said, I don´t know where I read all of the above (in two different places, I think).

Another thing also struck me. Why didn´t Bohm establish contacts with Sri Aurobindo instead? Perhaps he simply never met him. After all, Aurobindo lived in Pondicherry and wasn´t easily available, not even to world famous quantum physicists!

With that, I leave you for now. 


2 comments:

  1. "Bohm regarded the shakti as a very real energy field "beyond" or "behind" the cosmos."

    Låter mycket fascinerande. Man kan hoppas att det är sant. Då kommer den kraften att finnas kvar även om universum försvinner i en oändlig gleshet, enligt Big Bang-teorin. Så den som förenar sig med Shakti behöver inte vara rädd för att universum försvinner.

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  2. Ja, det stämmer. Problemet är alltså att jag inte vet var någonstans jag läste detta, vilket är lite irriterande, särskilt som jag läser ovanligt många böcker!

    Teosoferna är väl delvis inne på liknande tankar. Kanske är "Fohat" deras motsvarighet till shakti?

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