KRISHNAMURTI

Evening Star, Issue 20635, 7 November 1930, Page 13

KRISHNAMURTI

BISHOP ARUNDALE’S ADDRESS The gospel of freedom, man’s freedom to follow what conscience told him was the truth, was preached in the Town Hall last evening to a considerable crowd by Bishop Arundale. In an attempt to present the ideals and principles of Krishnamurti, the speaker laboured the point of the essential freedom of man, and represented all the faiths and religions of the world as equal in truth and identical in origin. Krishnamurti, he said, simply brought to the world a new statement of truth; he was the latest manifestation of the basic principles underlying all religions. Like all the great teachers of all time, he came to a world which received him not. People were prepared to believe in a second coming, a new Christ, but not in their own time. They could not, or would not, believe any great manifestation would come to themselves. The speaker said that the unrest and trouble and revolution of to-day were signs of a now world being born in agony and travail. The world was in the throes of a cataclysmic upheaval similar to those which had racked civilisation to its foundations prior to the advent of other great teachers. Why, then, should the present catastrophic changes not be followed by the natural concomitant —the appearance of another Christ? It would merely be truth appearing in a new form. There, were many Christs, and would be many more. In fact, the glorious state of Christhood was the birthright of everyone, and possible to all who could pass right through the arduous process of evolution. Krishnamurti had reached that stage. He had fought his way back to the fundamental essence of truth and was free and happy, happy with the abiding happiness that was the end of life. He wished to found no sect, form no creed, or expound' no dogma. All he asked was that the world, to whom he belonged, should examine him and his truth and find whether or not ids message would help them to freedom. Tho lecturer spoke forcefully on the perpetual conflict of religions. Christianity, with all its accretions, distortions, and forms, was a. laughing stock among millions, just in the same wav that Buddhism, Mohammedanism, ancl the rest were despised and condemned by Christians. And yet they all possessed the same fundamentals, the same simple foundations. Christ, Buddha, Mohammed—they were all much alike in their teaching. 'A study of the authentic utterances of each would convince people of the astounding identity between them all. Krishnamurti came with the same message which ■ could appeal to Christian, Buddhist, Mohammedan. Hindu, and Mussulman. He wanted them to eschew form, dogma, doctrine, and creed and get away back to the fundamental teachings of the founders of faith—teachings that in them essence were a}l alike. The great white light of truth shone from the utterances of all the teachers, and people had only to turn again to the fundamentals to appreciate the truth in all things, the freedom of all men, and the greatness of life when it was free and happy and unshackled by the ignorance, superstition, and distortion that were emptying churches to-day and sending people to find their own truth from within.