Vedanta - You Need a New Mind

J KRISHNAMURTI





The companions, the relationships, work, ideas, beliefs and dogmas that we hold have produced a monstrous world of conflict, misery and perpetual sorrow. We accept it as normal condition, we put up with it day after day; we never inquire into the necessity , the urgency of a revolution that is neither economical nor political but much more fundamental.No inquiry is ever possible when the mind is tethered to any kind of dogma, tradition or belief. The difficulty is not that we are not capable of inquiring, not that we are incapable of investigating, but we are apparently totally incapable of letting things go, putting things aside and, therefore, with a fresh mind, with a you ng, innocent mind, looking at the world and all the ap palling things that are tak ing place in it.
Only when you can destroy completely everything that you have held sacred or right or virtuous that you can find out what is truth.
Society controls our minds, shapes our hearts, our actions, whether you live in a communist, Hindu or Christian world. Society , with its structure, shapes the mind of every human being, consciously or unconsciously . The culture in which we live -the traditions, religions, politics and education -past and present, shapes our thought. And to bring about a complete revolution -a crisis in consciousness -you must question the structure of society .
You need a new mind because a new world has to be created -not by politicians, but by you and me who are just ordinary average persons, because it is we that have to change completely .