PATH TO HAPPINESS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21769, 7 April 1934, Page 14

PATH TO HAPPINESS

SOME MODERN PROBLEMS VIEWS OF KRISHNAMURTI An appeal for action in the removal from the world of what he termed exploitation was issued by the Indian teacher, Jiddu Krishnamurti, in an address at a luncheon given in his honour by business men at Milne and Chovce's Tudor Tearooms yesterday. There was a large attendance. Most people believed in a Utopia, he said, but such could not be brought about without collective action. Feople felt in their hearts the cruelty of exploitation, yet everyone was caught up in the system. At the same time, people were hoping that by some extraordinary means a new world would be brought into being. The members of his audience, he said, were all business men, but surely they could not leave every human problem aside. There was a tendency for many to think that as soon as a certain security had been reached everything was all right. As long as individuals were seeking their own security there must be a system of exploitation. The business man's exploitation was based on aggrandisement and the accumulation of wealth, greed and selfishness and security. Tho speaker criticised nationalism and artificial barriers to trade. "You cannot be nationalistic and yet talk of freedom of trade," he said. As long as' tariff barriers existed, he considered there would always be strife and unhappiness. He could see no way out of the present position, except by beginning as individuals, and by beginning with action. Exploitation was a barrier to human happiness, and although everyone know full well the deficiencies of the present system, yet things were allowed to take their own course.