UG: a Unique Guy

U G Krishnamurti, popularly called and known as UG by his admirers is no more, but in a sense he is “more” now in this world, such is the power and penetration of his words and wits that he has left and impacted on the trackless track of this world. It just catches “fire” and nothing less or more. Eventhough through rotten traditional lense UG appeared to be a Useless Guy, in a clean lense UG is forever a Unique Guy. As a humble admirer, at least I felt like expressing these words, not for praising UG, but just for my conviction, for that crazy UG doesn’t want people to remember and worship him both when he is alive as well as dead.

The contemporaries JK, Osho , and UG are unique in their own way in hammering this mad world. May the breed of these Unique Guys live more on this beautiful earth.

The links:
UG Obituary: Final Remembering
UG Swan Song

An Artistic Sketch of UG:

This is the art work ‘lovingly’ created by IKURU, who I understand, is an attached as well as detached remote admirer of UG too. Remote in the sense, he never had a chance to meet UG physically, only once he spoke with UG on phone, it seems. That reflects in this UG painting that he has created here. Ikuru always loves and adds more humors amidst the so called tumorous journey of our life. I would like to add a note that this ‘art piece’ is not hosted here in appreciation or ‘worshipping’ of UG, but rather as an appreciation of human expression of art and beauty. May long live our ‘heart and art’!

– P Sulochanan
sulochanp@gmail.com

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Soak in the intense of this moment: tribute to UG

Friends of UG Krishnamurti gathered at ‘Hridaya Vihar’ Bangalore thanks to the magnanimous hosts – Mr and Mrs Chandrasekhar Suguna, on 22 March 2018, Thursday, as part of UG death anniversary – aradhana – celebration; it was on this day 11 years ago that UG left his body at the age of 89 in Vallecroci, Italy. The climax of paradox could be that this meet happens every year in the name of the infamous anti guru crusader UG, who curtly often told his friends: “on my death, throw my dead body on a heap of garbage, and wash off your hands, never to remember me.”

On this occasion one friend Frank Noronha, who came down to Bengaluru from Delhi to be present himself at this event, recalled that UG used to tell him to forget UG completely for the wellbeing and spiritual growth. On asking as to how it could be possible for him to forget UG the most guiding force, UG countered him by saying, “if you could really throw me (UG), you are throwing yourself too along with it.” An interesting point to penetrate, perhaps.

So many friends from far off places, have had come to pay their unforgettable respect and obeisance to an enigma called UG. A few names randomly to mention who made their gracious presence on the occasion – Dinesh Waghela from Goa, who was the pioneer to publish the first book of UG, The Mystique of Enlightenment, followed by the second book, Mind is a Myth in those early years; Dr Leele; Uday Puranik; and Mr and Mrs Vikas Deshpande; Jhunhunwala RP. Malladi Krishnamurti recollected and remembered his strong and strange days with UG in those days, on this occasion. Usha (Bulbul), younger daughter of UG, also made her humble presence there.

Mukunda Rao made his presence with copies of his new book, Sky-Clad: the extraordinary life and times of Akka Mahadevi, to be formally released on 15 April 208 at Ranga Shankara, Bengaluru. Mukunda confessed and confided openly that it appears that he has been now writing books in the shadow or light of UG, that now he could give a new perspective to any subject thanks to UG beatings in him. On this occasion, referring to his most read book on UG – The Biology of Enlightenment, he pointed out that in the spiritual narrative for the first time the body and its biology has been brought in the forefront thanks to UG Krishnamurti. A separate and split psychology is less realistic to life; body is always base and whole and can not be made a taboo to see the life and its flow.

The US boy – Matthew Dougherty came down all the way from America to show a few bits of the samples of his forthcoming film on UG. This boy never met UG, but inspired and fired by UG later, and he has had extensively travelled across the nook and corner of the world in his quest and search for collecting first hand resources and materials, meeting, interacting and visiting several people and places; he has had already done a lot of extensive research for his forthcoming documentary film on UG to be presented to the world. He has now already spent almost eight years of this uphill task of producing a film on the most nowhere to be fitted or framed nonentity called UG, and the fruit of film is yet to come.

Bangalore’s traditional eat menu – idli-vada with sambar and chattni, and pongal for morning breakfast; steaming tea and coffee; watermelon fruit juice to beat the summer heat; lavish sumptuous lunch; sweets; hearty hospitality in love with UG – are the least to be mentioned.

A few friends sang with their heart and soul the Akka Mahadevi vachanas and other melodious songs there, on this occasion, which enthralled all. The full day has gone like a few moments spent in the glimpse of UG. Perhaps, the best tribute to UG is to soak ourselves in the instant intense intensity of the moment. UG needs no promotion; UG needs none of our appreciation and certificates. May we not belittle others in the arrogance. UG is fragrance and freedom. UG is no persona, but the one nameless ocean of existence.

A few random other photos of the occasion:

Come-Back – Welcome

Friends, All these years we have been away from active presence on this WordPress blog, and couldn’t interact or contribute much on these pages here; but very heartening to note that friends continue to visit this blog more frequently (over 165000 hits) more than and beyond my expectation – and that gesture of friends could throw much needed fire that may for sure inspire us to an active come back here and continue our exploratory churning journey together. All these years our active presence and participation has been by and large on the Facebook, with over 2000 plus friends. Hope we may have more active presence of contribution and interaction of a kind in this year 2018 on the WordPress. With best wishes and regards, P Sulochanan sulochanp@gmail.com

The Only Ten Virtues for Enlightenment

UG’s most infamous TEN COMMANDMENTS:

1. Dont Love – Just Fuck
2. Steal but dont get caught
3. Kill thy Neighbour and save yourself
4. Beat your parents for getting you into this world
5. Eat like a pig, hog and swine all rolled into one
6. Better Masturbate than Meditate
7. Yield to temptations of every and any kind
8. Love and hate are much closer than kissing cousins
9. Mother fuckers have a better chance for enlightenment
10. Loose yourself and stay lost all the time

Being

Yet another book on UG is now available:

Being
Essays on UG Krishnamurti and Other Topics
by Narayana Moorty

Free Download
beyondpoetry.com

“My aim in this book is to approach some of the issues without presupposing any religious or spiritual beliefs, taking a commonsense point of view and remaining always within the sphere of the known. The book should also demonstrate how I have translated, as best as I could, what I understand or learned from UG into my own life. Standing from such a ground of experience I have tried to chip away, as it were, bit by bit, at the unknown. Of course, you can never know the unknown. But what has been considered mystical or mysterious before could, at least to a minor degree, be unraveled. In my opinion, that was indeed what UG was trying to achieve as well.”
– Narayana Moorty
Seaside, California

Also visit some other recent books on UG on this site:
(1) Goner: The Final Travels of UG Krishnamurti, by Louis Brawley
(2) The Biology Of Enlightenment: Unpublished Conversations Of U. G. Krishnamurti After He Came Into The Natural State (1967-71)
Edited by Mukunda Rao
(3) A Taste of life: the last days of UG. By Mahesh Bhatt [link1] [link2]

This Dog is Barking: A Comic Epic on UG

A no non-sense, and no serious Comic Epic on UG (a graphic novel) is coming out soon thanks to the crazy non-stop zeal and fantasy of the devil’s duo, Nicolas C Grey – a comic artist,and James Farley – a text-writer. They have been working on it since almost a year or so and it may hit the stands now any time, may be in a few months. Seriousness is a seed of cancer and somehow that is knowingly or unknowingly seeded in all our holy scriptures and teachings. Life is simply to laugh. But we carry life as a log of long dead wood. UG’s utterances or barkings are not to be put in another holy epic and hence the affront effort of Nicolas and James in presenting UG and his barkings in a bare but bold comic graphics is much appreciated and it is fittingly more appropriate as well. It’s a cosmic comic there, so to say.

This Dog Barking – The Strange Story of UG Krishnamurti
Drawn by Nicolas C Grey
Written by James Farley

The following excerpts are reproduced here from their website, along with a few atypical sample graphics:

This Dog Barking (intro)

The iconoclast and ‘anti-guru’ UG Krishnamurti’s (1918 – 2007) only advice was that people should throw away their crutches and free themselves from the stranglehold of cultural conditioning and the tyranny of thought.

This Dog Barking – The Strange Story of UG Krishnaumrti chronicles the bizarre history of The Cosmic Naxalite; from his troubled childhood with the Theosophists and discipleship’s and subsequent disillusion with many of the leading spiritual teachers of the twentieth century, to his catastrophic personal life and years of homelessness and destitution in London and Paris.

In 1967 UG underwent his ‘Calamity’ – a series of biological mutations which left him in the ‘natural state’ – functioning without the interference of thought.

With no fixed address, no followers and no organization UG spent the next 30 years traveling the world and giving his uncompromising message that ‘mind is a myth’ and the human condition should be demystified and de-psychologized and viewed in purely physiological terms.

This Dog Barking (synopsis)

Beginning with his unconventional upbringing by the Theosophists in Madras, This Dog Barking tells the turbulent life-story of one of the most radical and unrecognized philosophers of the twentieth century.

Following the death of his mother from childbirth complications UG Krishnamurti spent his early life in the company of many of the period’s most influential gurus and spiritual masters. But his years with The Theosophists, Swami Sivananda, Ramana Maharishi and J Krishnamurti only served to convince him that the entire spiritual tradition was founded on dishonesty and delusion.

Similarly unimpressed by the insights offered by western philosophy and psychology, which he studied at Madras University, he opted for family life and married Kusuma Kumari. A decision he
regretted the day after the wedding.

In 1955 UG and Kusuma, together with their children left for a new life in America, where UG built up a successful career on the spiritual lecture circuit. However, he soon tired of this and in 1959 informed his wife that their marriage was over. A distraught Kusuma returned to India with the children,. Where she died a few years later following a period of mental illness.

UG meanwhile began a five year period of aimless wandering around Europe, supporting himself by giving tarot readings and Indian cookery lessons and living almost entirely on cheese.

He finally came to the end of the line in Geneva in 1965. With nowhere else to go, he presented himself as destitute to the Indian Consulate, where he and the 63 year old Embassy translator, Valentine De Kerven, struck up a friendship. Valentine gave up her job in order to support UG, and this unusual relationship was to continue until Valentine’s death in 2005.

In 1967 UG underwent his ‘calamity’ – a series of biological changes which left him in the ‘natural state’ – functioning without the unnecessary interference of thought.

For the next 30 years UG and Valentine traveled the world, staying with friends in America, India and Europe. Despite having no fixed address or any organization a steady stream of the curious, confused and bored would seek UG out in order to hear his uncompromising message that ‘mind is a myth’ and the human condition should be demystified and de-psychologized and viewed in purely physiological terms.

As well as telling the life-story of UG, including, for the first time, details of his involvement with the Bollywood starlet Parveen Babi, This Dog Barking presents all of the key concepts in his anti-philosophy, exploring his ideas on the destructive nature of thought, the fallacy of cause and effect and the fundamental role of cultural and social conditioning in what we call our identity.

Nicolas C Grey’s haunting and beautifully detailed drawings capture both the personalities and atmosphere of UG’s life and times, and vividly bring to life his uncompromising, contrary and unbalancing conversational style.

Discomforting, irreverent, intimate and nihilistic, UG’s freewheeling and radical non-teaching undermines the very foundations of human thought, freeing the hearer from illusory goals and ‘the tyranny of knowledge, beauty, goodness, truth and God’.

(1) Nicolas and James have created a crazy Group on Facebook, all crazy nasty things they air and shoot there, in a funny non-serious way as part of this project.
(2) And another part of this mega comic crazy UG project is that they need lot of ‘monetary’ support too for the successful completion and they do need fun(d) raising, and for latest status and stuff of the project, please do visit their another website thisdogbarking.com
(3) You may visit also Nicolas Site
(4) This Dog Barking: on Facebbok

 

God never spoke

“God never spoke; only the Gurus spoke.“
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Unholy God

“The holy preachings and teachings have already polluted this planet beyond repair, down the lines for centuries and centuries. May UG do some Unholy God barking there.“
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Goner

A new book titled, ‘Goner’ has been published:
Title: Goner: The Final Travels of UG Krishnamurti
Author: Louis Brawley
Publisher: Salisbury: NON-DUALITY PRESS, May 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9566432-7-8
Collation: 394 pages. Softcover. 5½” X 8½” format.

About the Book:
Louis Brawley met UG Krishnamurti in 2002 and spent the following five years travelling with him in the USA, India and Europe keeping a record of this remarkable non-teacher and documenting his own inner struggles as his ideas about life, love and Enlightenment were constantly tossed around and demolished. Louis fell into the role of foil and sidekick to UG’s bizarre interactions with his friends and audience and, as UG’s health deteriorated, he became his informal caregiver.

Louis Brawley doesn’t use honeyed platitudes to tell the story of a sage and his devoted follower; instead he tells an often unflattering story of his own struggles and shortcomings and the dynamic uncertainties of life with a man who “tore apart everything human beings have built up inside and out for centuries.”

Goner will teach you the meaning of the phrase ‘paradoxical truth’. UG Krishnamurti gave up everything for truth, but delighted in ridiculous fabrications; he was a teacher who refused to teach, a man who mocked do-gooders but was deeply kind; he was chaste but foul mouthed, he was a man who decried the supernatural … yet there were strange coincidences around him.

“…the way he lived, his living quarters and his mode of expression were one continuous movement, a three dimensional, living book of teaching. If you were observant, you could learn from him on contact with no need for explanation.”

About the author:
Louis Brawley was born in Ohio and lived and worked in New York, where he met UG Krishnamurti in 2002. Louis works as an artist, photographer and freelance art handler worldwide – occupations which fund his travels around the world writing and recording accounts and impressions from friends of the “Raging Sage”.

“You are trying to present me as a religious man, which I am not. You are failing to comprehend the most important thing that I am emphasizing. There is no religious content, no mystical overtones at all, in what I am saying. Man has to be saved from the saviors of mankind! The religious people—they kidded themselves and fooled the whole of mankind. Throw them out! That is courage itself, because of the courage there; not the courage you practice.”
Download the Sample Text of this Book [PDF]

Visit publisher: Non-Duality Press

Visit: Author’s (Louis Brawley) blog on this book.

A Child

“          A child was never mild. The huamnity has pressed it into
‘mild’ for centuries and centuries. To be wild is the nature.“
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All our loves

“All our loves are dual, and they may bring and confirm more and more duels only.“
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