It’s headed up to 75 degrees here in Albuquerque. It’s already 63 and a great day in our Southland, and now it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you a gentleman from India […]
UG Krishnamurti who is been called by the San Francisco Chronicle as the Don Rickles of the guru set. And Mr. Krishnamurti is a man who among other things I would say has no belief system.
Q: From what I have read about you sir, you believe Jesus Christ is a wayward Jew. Am I being unfair?
A: Not really. I think I used the word he was a misguided jew.
Q: All right, but do you not believe in God?
A: You’re throwing a direct question at me but my answer would be God is irrelevant. Whether God exists or no, we leave it to the theologians to discuss the question and trash it out for others. But I do not think that there is any power outside of this human being. In other words, the power is within ourselves. It is the same power that is there all around you. You are the expression of the same energy.
You know, so that does not mean that man is superior to all the other species on this planet. And one fundamental mistake that our culture has done to mankind is to make us feel that we are superior to all the other forms of life. And that we are here on this planet for grander and nobler purposes other than all the other fishes on this planet. And the whole world is created by whom… we leave it to those people who are interested in establishing whether it is created by God or the whole thing came out from some dust and hydrogen atoms and pebbles. We leave it to them. But we are not created for any grander and nobler purposes other than other forms of life on this planet. And it is this belief that is put in there by our culture society or whatever you want to call it. [And] is responsible for all the ecological problems that we have created.
Q: All right now if that is the case then why is it that we are always going to have wars are we always going to fight with one another. We. When I say us as humans…
A: I understand because we believe in something and unfortunately you have to believe and need to believe. And naturally, there is somebody else who believes in a totally different thing. So beliefs separators as long as you succumb to your belief so long they will be wars. We are not going to have peace on this planet as long as you try to create peace on this planet [through] wars.
Q: So, you know you realize that’s hopeless. I mean is that what you’re saying…
A: Hope that somehow through wars you are going to create peace on this earth, it is just a belief. And a hope.
And man lives in that hope and dies in hope.

Judaism holds that YHWH, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob delivered the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, and gave them the Law of Moses at Mount Sinai. According to them, God is understood as the absolute one, indivisible, and incomparable being who is the ultimate cause of all existence. Also that God is personal but transcendent. The living and loving Father of Men. A terrific ideal force in this world.
Traditional Judaism views God, also, as a personal god, “He is my God, my living God… Who hears and answers.”
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, says: I have a friend in Washington. I asked him, what was it like being in America […]?
He said to me. Well, it was like the man sitting on the deck of the Titanic with a glass of whiskey in his hand and he’s saying, ‘I know I asked for ice — but this is ridiculous.’
Have you noticed how magical thinking has taken over our politics?
So we say, all you’ve got to do is elect this strong leader and he or she will solve all our problems for us.
Believe me, that is magical thinking.
And then we get the extremes: the far right, the far left, the extreme religious and the extreme anti-religious, the far-right dreaming of a golden age that never was, the far left dreaming of a utopia that never will be, and the religious and anti-religious equally convinced that all it takes is God or the absence of God to save us from ourselves.
That, too, is magical thinking, because the only people who will save us from ourselves are we the people, all of us together.