In his famous book 'Love and Loneliness', J. Krishnamurti, the 20th century thinker, emphasises on 'love' as the panacea for all our ills and miseries. He says, 'If you have no love - do what you will, go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, enter politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly And with love, do what you will, there is no risk, there is no conflict. Then love is the essence of virtue.' Krishnamurti says that our problem is that our lives are empty and we know no love. And that's why we have filled ourselves with jealousy, competition and violence. We run after things in search of happiness but find our lives boring and complicated. Krishnamurti says that love has not blossomed in us because of our mind, which creates all the mess. He says that we cannot understand love until we understand that equally complex problem, called the mind. And it is mind that destroys love..
Why have we given so much significance to the rulings of the mind? Clever people, cunning people don't know what love is because their minds are so clever that it makes them superficial, whereas love is not a thing that exists on the surface. The mind says, 'This is mine, that is yours, I'm a Hindu, I'm a Muslim, I believe in this, I believe in that,' and so on. The mind believes in possessions and relationships and that fills it with jealousy, competition and ultimately with violence and hatred. The mind gradually becomes warped or fixed in a certain pattern, it gets crystallised, hard, dull. 'Love' does not believe in petty barriers. It is only when the mind is quiet, when it is no longer expecting, demanding, seeking, possessing, being jealous, fearful or hateful is there a possibility of love. So we must be concerned not with love, which comes into being spontaneously, but gravely consider those things that are hindering an affectionate worldview...
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