U.G.Krishnamurti Quotes

A messiah is the one who leaves a mess behind him in this world.

Religions have promised roses but you end up with only thorns.

Going to the pub or the temple is exactly the same; it is quick fix.

The body has no independent existence. You are a squatter there.

God and sex go together. If God goes sex goes, too.

All experiences however extraordinary they may be are in the area of sensuality.

Man cannot be anything other than what he is. Whatever he is, he will create a society that mirrors him.

Love and hate are not opposite ends of the same spectrum; they are one and the same thing. They are much closer than kissing cousins.

Gurus play a social role, so do prostitutes.

By using the models of Jesus, Buddha, or Krishna we have destroyed the possibility of nature throwing up unique individuals.

It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

You eat not food but ideas. What you wear are not clothes, but labels and names.

The plain fact is that if you don’t have a problem, you create one. If you don’t have a problem you don’t feel that you are living.

That messy thing called ‘mind’ has created many destructive things. By far the most destructive of them all is God.

Atmospheric pollution is most harmless when compared to the spiritual and religious pollution that have plagued the world.

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, where as culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

Useful links for Advaita Vedanta

1.Advaita Vedanta Library
http://www.geocities.com/advaitavedant/index.htm

2.Sankaracharya page
http://www.sankaracharya.org/index.php
This site has also works of Ramana Maharishi and Nisaragadatta Maharaj.

3.Realization
http://www.realization.org/

4.http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/avhp/one-many.html

5.One of the best sites...from modern writers of Advaita
http://www.advaita.org.uk/

6.Vedanta for Beginners
http://www.geocities.com/neovedanta/index.html

7.This site has Sanskrit verses of Sankara
http://www.shaivam.org/ssdashashloki.htm

8.http://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/

Illuminating Tribal India

I came across this article which talks about other natural forms of energy.As a electrical engineer,solar energy has always been my main interest.
So nice to know there are good people like Prof.Shrinivasa who work for the "poorest of the poor".

http://goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Magazine/story/biodiesel-chalbardi

I love trees

I was 8 years old and I remember the day, when one of the oldest trees near my house was cut down, to build a house.I shed silent tears for my forgotten friend.Sometimes I felt that I suffer from a mental delusion or I am too Over- Sensitive towards living beings.I have spent countless hours on the terrace...alone...gazing at stars, moon and infinity.Learnt a lot about life from the silent green beings which surrounded my house.

I am quite grateful to my parents that they never pushed me into any extra curricular activities.I was left on my own to explore.I feel as a kid when we explore the world on our own ,nature gives us the best gift.
Creativity!!!

The silence of the heavenly bodies taught me music.Silence is the most important aspect of music.Years later when I took piano classes to study Beethoven and Mozart..I was amazed at the similarities.

Observing nature is so important in painting.I used to always feel that I am reproducing nature in my paintings.But now I realize that I reproduce what I absorb.Its a honor to imitate nature in its splendid glory.

We create reality every instant.Words are just a small percent of reality we absorb.
Silence is again fundamental to words.If we don't have a period of silence in a day we ruin the mind with too many thoughts.Most of our words are repetitions of everyday incidents.We ask everyday the same questions.How are you,How are you doing,what happened, joys , sorrows,limitations...These words take away chunks of our time...We never dive deep into ourselves because all day long we are telling each other how we are doing.Few of the courtesy calls cannot be avoided,they come with our jobs.But when it comes to our personal space we can transform it into a knowledgeable experience.Once the words stop we realize the power of words.The external world then slowly crawls into the internal self and hopefully we find a calm/peaceful mind.

Useful Links !!!

Ngo/Social Entrepreneurship

1.NGO post
http://ngopost.org/
This site gives the various ngo activities in India.

2.India Together
http://www.indiatogether.org/
A good list of articles for anyone worried about social/economic issues in India.

3.TED
One of the best sites I have come across!!!

www.ted.com
Few of my recent favs...
The myth of violence
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/163

Working of the mind by neurologist Vilayanur Ramachandran
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/184

Habit of Happiness by Matthieu Ricard(Buddhist monk)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/191

There are other beautiful speeches which are present in the archives...

Spirituality

1.Sanskrit movie on Adi Sankaracharya

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=
1047087149251803384&q=adi+sankaracharya+movie&total=12&start=0&
num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

2.I am that

http://www.sankaracharya.org/i_am_that.php