This dog barking a book on UGK Reviews highlight some interesting thoughts of this man!
The late UG Krishnamurti did something similar for philosophy. Through his fierce, erudite opposition to not just the concepts, but also the objectives associated with conventional philosophy, UG pricked the complacency of students and teachers alike. A new graphic novel, This Dog Barking (written by Nicholas Grey and illustrated by James Farley), provides us with a highly approachable (and, at times, brilliant) summary of the ‘anti-enlightenment’ thinker’s fascinating life.
These meetings are among the best pages of this impressively iconoclastic book. The supposed ‘weirdness’ of UG has been written and drawn in a way that makes him look like the straight guy in a two-person comedy sketch, playing off Jiddu’s highfalutin philosophising. Again and again, UG requests the World Teacher to cut down on the mysticism and give him to-the-point answers. But the reader soon realises that Jiddu’s thought process has crystallised permanently, to the extent that he is utterly incapable of talking sans solipsism and cryptic metaphors.
This signifies the larger problem that UG pinpointed in the trajectory that most 20th-century spiritual movements follow: a centralised ‘enlightened’ leader, whose followers spread the word in mainstream media outlets, and whose ‘ascension’ is cheered on by politicians, actors and hangers-on who hope to gain materially by the movement’s rise (the influential non-fiction book Feet of Clay details the less-than-savoury histories of some of these movements, profiling people such as Shree Rajneesh aka Osho, David Koresh, Jim Jones and others). And so good intentions and intermittently brilliant ideas add up to just another personality cult.
This is why UG, from the very beginning, is adamant about his own worth as a teacher — or lack thereof. Everywhere he travels, he attracts followers who want to listen to him. But he explicitly tells them to go away, to not pay heed to his words. In the titular passage of the book, UG tells them that their questioning him is akin to people “throwing stones at a dog (...) you translate the sound of this dog’s barking into meaningful language”.
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