J. Krishnamurti

A real religious man has no conflict whatsoever within his own being; you may belong, or you may call yourself a sanyasi, a monk, a religious man and be burning inwardly with desire, with sexual appetites and therefore in conflict. Then you are no longer moral. So that is the problem. You understand? The problem is so vast, so complex, so interrelated with every other problem, you cannot just take one problem and try to resolve it, it's impossible. Every problem is related to the other problems.

So this complex crisis must be met with a mind and a heart that is entirely different, that is capable of meeting this vastness of existence not in terms of India or Hinduism or any of those absurd divisions - even according to the hippies - it must be met anew with a mind that is extraordinarily free. So that is our question, that's our problem."

 J. Krishnamurti
Public Talk 1
New Delhi, India - 12 November 1969