Adesh Katyayan

On a profound journey towards self realisation,mindfulness and awareness,cultivating a deep sense of gratitude for the present moment.

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It needs great intelligence to live together, not surrender to each other or be dominated by one or the other. Relationship is the most difficult thing in life. ⁠
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Krishnamurti J⁠
Happy is the one who is nothing.⁠
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To really meet sorrow requires enormous sensitivity.

You don’t have to rush toward closure.

You don’t have to find a spiritual lesson in the tragedy.

You don’t have to pretend that everything happens for a reason.

You can simply say:

This happened. It is terrible. I loved this person. I miss them. And I don’t know why.

And remain with that truth. RIP all victims of #Nepal #Flashflood heart goes out to the affected and who lost their loved ones in this tragedy.

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"The only useful purpose of the present birth
is to turn within and realise the Self. There is
nothing else to do." RM

We spend lifetimes chasing outer achievements,
yet the greatest discovery awaits within. Realise
the Self and find ultimate freedom.

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@himabista Our heart goes out to the affected, prayers for the safety of the missing.

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Praying for the people of Nepal #Nepal #Flashfloods

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Without understanding yourself what is the point of understanding the world ? RM

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Simple awareness is enough to put an end to a problem. —Krishnamurti

Context: We are always either condemning or comparing. Let’s not try to excuse ourselves, but just watch our daily life, and we shall see that we never think without judging, comparing, evaluating. We are always saying, ‘This book is not as good as the other one,’ or ‘This man is better than that man’ – there is a constant process of comparison, through which we think we understand. But do we really understand through comparison? Or does understanding come only when one ceases to compare and just observes? When your mind is integrated, you have no time to compare. But the moment you compare, your attention has already moved elsewhere. When you say, ‘This sunset is not as beautiful as that of yesterday,’ you do not really see the sunset, for your mind has wandered off to the memory of yesterday. When the mind is capable of not condemning or comparing, but merely examines a problem, then the problem has undergone a fundamental change, and then the problem ceases. Simple awareness is enough to put an end to the problem.

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You discover what you truly are your fears, attachments, and prejudices—by looking at how you interact with others and the world

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“life not as a problem to be solved or a goal to be achieved, but as a vast, undivided movement of relationships, action, and being.” Among the familiar faces and the greats who have been part of this thirteen-year journey, it is always wonderful to wander through this special place. Every corner holds a memory, every space has a story.

I walked into the Hall of Light, and somehow, your wisdom still seemed to shine brightly. The birdsong played softly in the background, and even the familiar perfume of your teachings still lingers in the air.

Some places are more than places they become a part of you. And this one always will be @Krishnamurti Study center

18.10.2026

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You say you breathe.
Who is breathing in you
except God!" RM

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‘We are concerned with observing the actual facts, the ‘what is’. To observe ‘what is’ very clearly and to see the full significance of those facts, we must look at it without our conditioning. That is where the difficulty is going to lie, because you have opinions, you have values, you approach them as a Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, or what you will, with your nationality, with your peculiar idiosyncrasies, and these prevent you from observing, from looking. Observation is an art. It is not easily learnt. One has observed neither the sunset nor the stars, neither the trees nor the facts, outwardly or inwardly. So, if we are going to travel together – and I hope we will – we have to observe scientifically, ruthlessly and with great intelligence.’

— From Collected Works
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We know the names of trees, of birds, of shops, but what do we know of ourselves beyond some words and appetites? —Krishnamurti

Context: We know the names of trees, of birds, of shops, but what do we know of ourselves beyond some words and appetites? We have information, conclusions about so many things, but there is no happiness, no peace that is not stagnant. Our lives are dull and empty, or so full of words and activity that it blinds us. Knowledge is not wisdom, and without wisdom there is no peace, no happiness.

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As long as we are trying to achieve a psychological result, as long as we want inward security, there must be a contradiction in our lives. I do not think most of us are aware of this contradiction, or if we are, we do not see its real significance. On the contrary, contradiction gives us an impetus to live; the very element of friction makes us feel that we are alive. The effort, the struggle of contradiction, gives us a sense of vitality. That is why we love wars, that is why we enjoy the battle of frustrations. So long as there is the desire to achieve a result, which is the desire to be psychologically secure, there must be a contradiction; and where there is contradiction, there cannot be a quiet mind. Quietness of mind is essential to understand the whole significance of life. K

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अज्ञानतिमिरान्धस्य ज्ञानाञ्जनशलाकया।
चक्षुरुन्मीलितं येन तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः॥ to the one who dispels darkness I thank you,my lord.🙏

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As the flower contains the scent,
So I hold Thee,
O world,
In my heart.
Keep me within the heart,
For I am liberation
And happiness.

As the precious stone
Lies deep in the earth,
So I am hidden
Deep in thy heart… K

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‘I think I can escape from my discontent by having something more, more clothes or more power and so on. But the dissatisfaction is still there, only I cover it up with clothes, with power, with cars. I just cover it up. Until you find out how to understand what you are, merely covering yourself with words, with power, with position, has no meaning. You will still be unhappy. Seeing this, the unhappy person, the person who is in sorrow, does not run away to gurus, to position, to power; he wants to know what is behind that word, what lies behind that sorrow. If you go behind it, you will find that it is yourself, yourself who is very small, yourself who is miserable, unhappy, struggling to achieve greatness. So, this struggle to be something is the cause of sorrow. But if you can understand the thing, that which you are, go deeper and deeper behind it, you will find something quite different.’

— From Collected Works, Vol. 7

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‘Discontent is a flame that must be kept burning brightly, and not smothered by an interest or activity that is pursued as a reaction to the pain of it. Discontent is painful only when it is resisted. One who is merely satisfied, without understanding the full significance of discontent, is asleep; they are not sensitive to the whole movement of life. Satisfaction is a drug, and it is comparatively easy to find. But to understand the full significance of discontent, the search for certainty must cease. Apart from mechanical certainties, is there any certainty at all, any psychological permanency? Or is there only impermanency? All relationship is impermanent; all thought, with its symbols, ideals, projections, is impermanent. Property is lost, and even life itself ends in death, in the unknown, though man builds a thousand cunning structures of belief to overcome it. We separate life from death, and so both remain unknown. Contentment and discontent are like the two sides of one coin. To be free from the ache of discontent, the mind must cease to seek contentment.’

— From Commentaries on Living Series 3

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@FabrizioRomano He needs to watch the game again from the 50th minute a million times and self reflect that he could definitely have made a diffrence by just not sitting back.

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Tuchel praised the opposition too much before the game,No tactics in the second half as if he had no plans,England sat back deep,substitutions came in very late the mentality was the problem today, it started by defending too much whereas your expertise is to split open teams.Still well done team England there is so much to be taken for this WC26.

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Shall we sit quietly for a while? It would be rather nice. Not meditate or anything like that, just sit quietly. Then we can probably observe our own activities of mind, our own behavior, our own conduct, our ways of daily life, our relationship with others, our relationship with each other, intimate or superficial. We have hardly any leisure. We are so occupied from morning till night and even if we do sleep, our minds, our brains are constantly active, dreaming, unresolved problems being solved consciously - unconsciously and so on. And during the last five talks we have covered most of the complicated areas of our life. I think we ought also to talk over this evening, sorrow, death and meditation. On a pleasant evening like this, a rather nice cool breeze, to talk about death seems rather irrelevant. With a lovely sky, and looking at the sky through the leaves and the strange silence of an evening that seems to descend on earth about this time and to talk about the ending of life, death, though irrelevant or may be relevant, it's part of our life, like sorrow. And we want solutions, answers immediately for all our problems. That's what we all expect, answers to a very complex life. We don't want to examine the complexity, the diversity, the enormous superficial differences - height color, capacities, skill and we don't want answers for those superficial problems like business, scientific research, social studies and so on, but we want answers, psychological answers, solutions for our problems. Probably that's why you are here. These problems can be solved immediately. That is, if you immediately change your life, if you immediately behave righteously, if you immediately change your relationship with each other completely. That is the final absolute answer for your problems. But we won't because our brains are accustomed, trained to postpone, to put up, to acquiesce, to yield, never enquiring, never going into the problem very deeply. We want somebody to tell us what to do. And we have, as human beings, relied for thousands of years on somebody to tell us what to do: your books, your gurus, your philosophers, the Upanishads, all the rest of it. Probably, most of you have read them, but you are where you are in spite of all that.

Krishnamurti J