U.G.Krishnamurti, U.G., as he was popularly known and nicknamed as the ‘Un-Guru’, was not an Avatar or a Godman. He was not a Guru or a teacher. He was not a prophet or a cult-figure. He was not a yogi. Not a transformed individual. He can at best be described (for a lack of better word) as a ‘Philosopher of sorts’. He insisted that the whole spiritual trip was a non-sense, the whole notion of enlightenment an illusion. In fact, he would say that the very idea of mind or spirit as something different from the body is a myth.
“It is not the state of a self-realized or God-realized man” says U.G., “It is not a thing to be achieved or attained. It is the living state. It is your State as much as mine.” For this reason, U.G. had not founded schools, ashrams, or meditation centers. He had no teaching to protect or disseminate. U.G. died on 22nd March 2007 at the age of eighty-nine in Vallecrosia, Italy. The effect that he has had, and will continue to have on legions of his admirers is difficult to put in words. Till his last breath, U.G. remained vigorously enigmatic, frustrating all the attempts of those around trying to fit him in some frame or the other.
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