If I may most respectfully
ask you... ...I am putting a question
to you, why are you here? This is a serious question... ...as you have put to the speaker
several other questions. Why each one of us is here in
this not too nice a weather... ...windy, and one hopes that you
are comfortably seated, but why? Not that you are not seated
comfortably but why are we all here? Is it out of curiosity,
nothing better to do? I am asking most respectfully,
not in any sense of impudence. Are we here to be stimulated, to be
challenged, to have more energy... ...or release energy, or merely
intellectual flirtation... ...that is a good word!
- or romantically, sentimentally... ...or some kind of help,
wanting to be helped by another? If one put all these questions to
oneself what would be our answer? You might just as well ask
the speaker why he is talking. Is it a habit? Is it he feels happy
facing an audience... ...fulfilling, and that
he needs an audience? All these questions must not only be
put to oneself but also to the speaker. And if we explore into that: why
we are doing what we are doing... ...with all this trouble, travail
and the anxiety and fear of all life. And if one doesn't
find an answer... ...to why the speaker is going
on the various continents... ...talking for the last 60, 70 years,
is it a habit to him? He has tested it out,
kept quiet for a year and more. And also at one time he talked behind
a curtain (Laughter) to the audience... ...and he felt rather silly (Laughter)
and so he went before the audience. He has tested this out very carefully,
whether he depends on another... ...to fulfil, to be, to become,
to feel famous, all that nonsense. Why in his return
he is asking you... ...if he may respectfully,
why we are all here. Is it old age because we have
nothing else better to do? Is it that we really deeply
want to understand ourselves. He is only acting as a mirror in which
each one of us can see ourselves... ...as we are, not be depressed
or elated to discover what we are. Is that mirror clear, sharp,
every feature of it is so... ...without any distortion. And if that mirror is clear
and you see oneself exactly... ...as one is then the
mirror is not important. You can break the mirror
without feeling any lack of luck! And if you can answer that question
- it is rather serious... ...why we behave as we do,
as each one of us does... ...why we think in a certain pattern;
why we follow somebody... ...the crazier the better;
why we store up all the things... ...that one has said,
that others have said... ...why there is nothing in
ourselves that is ourselves. And to discover what we are,
ourselves, that deep-rooted seed... ...not only the cultural seed,
the traditional, the religious... ...all the outgrowth of all
that but go very, very... ...very deeply in oneself to
find out the origin of all things. Not the cells and all that... ...not the genes that one has
inherited but much beyond all that. Shall we go into
that a little bit? What is the origin... ...not the biological and evolutionary
process - the origin of all things. This demands, or asks,
what is creation? What is creation? Who created all this,
the marvellous universe... ...everything living
in it and out of it? What is the origin of all that? Do you want to go into all that? Audience: Yes.
K: Sure? Why? (Laughter)
As an amusement? As a form of entertainment,
something new? I am afraid it is not
anything like that. Our brains have
extraordinary capacity... ...extraordinary, not ordinary,
but beyond all ordinary things. When one observes all
the technological world... ...what they have done
and what they are doing... ...and what they are going to do
- tremendous advancement. The brain has this capacity. The computer is going to take over
more and more, all our activities... ...more or less,
except sex... ...and probably it can't look
at the stars of an evening. But it is going to take over all our
activities - may bring about a new... ... industry, new way of living, without
electricity, it may depend on light. They are having great competition,
America and Japan, tremendous competition. And we will all be slaves to that god
- the computer. So we are saying the brain has an
extraordinary capacity but that brain... ...has been restricted, narrowed down
by our education, by our self-interest. I know you will hear all this
but you will do nothing about it. That's all right too. And that very brain which has evolved
for centuries, millions of years... ...that brain has become
what it is now... ...old, tired, with a lot of trouble,
conflicts and misery. That brain, which is the centre of
all our existence, all our being... ...which is the future and the past,
we went into it the other day... ...and this brain wants to find
out what is beyond all this... ...what is the origin,
the source, the beginning. Can it ever find out? You understand my question? Can it ever find out what
is the source, the life... ...the beginning of all creation,
of all things... ...not only ourselves but the tiger,
the marvellous trees. Have you ever been very
close to a wild tiger? No. We have been very close,
almost touching it - wild. And who brought all this about
- inexhaustible nature and the rivers... ...the mountains, the trees, the lawns,
the groves, the orchards and us? How will you find out? Please ask this question
of ourselves. How will you, ordinary
human beings like us... ...find out something which
science, biology and bio... ...something or other,
and the people who are digging... ...into the earth finding new cities,
how will you find out? By following somebody? By making some gurus
inexhaustibly rich? How will you go into this? That is my question to you. Who will answer it? Are you waiting for the
speaker to answer it? Or invent a new god who
will say he created it. That invention, that imagination
is still part of the brain. So how will you find out? May I leave you
with that question? What will you give to it, give in the
sense, your energy, your capacity... ...your enthusiasm, your passion,
your whole time to find out? Or will you treat it like something,
'Oh, I am too busy today... ...I will think about it tomorrow', or
'It is a question to put to the old... ...not to the young generation, we
are too young to think about all that.' How much energy
will you give to it? Not seeking energy or releasing energy,
that is all too childish. May I go on with
these questions?
