Jiddu Krishnamurti (11 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) is remembered by close friend Pupul Jayakar who is describing in her biography some of his last moments on earth… and by Osho speaking to us in discourse
Jiddu Krishnamurti in 1968. Photo credit Mark Edwards, Krishnamurti Foundation TrustAfter the last talk, Krishnaji asked his audience to sit quietly and meditate with him. A child walked up with a white flower. He turned and smiled as he took it. The child smiled. The sermon ended with the silence and the smile. He had said it was the last talk. […]
Toward the end of the gathering, he said: “Be absolutely alert, and make no effort.” Asit asked if those were his last words to us, and he smiled. […]
For an instant, the face was young, supremely beautiful.
I saw Krishnaji on the day of my departure. I sat with him for some time. He was in great pain, but his mind was clear and lucid. I said I would not say goodbye, for there would be no separation. With great effort, he lifted my hand to his lips. The grip was still firm. He lay cradled in a silence which enveloped me. As I was leaving, he said, “Pupul, tonight I shall go for a long walk in the mountains. The mists are rising.” I left his room without turning back.
That night, at nine o’clock, Krishnaji slept, to start his long walk into the high mountains. The mists were rising, but he walked through the mists, and he walked away.
Pupul Jayakar, Jiddu Krishnamurti: A Biography
And Osho on the ‘death’ of J. Krishnamurti:
The death of an enlightened being like J. Krishnamurti is nothing to be sad about, it is something to be celebrated with songs and dances. It is a moment of rejoicing. His death is not a death. He knows his immortality. His death is only the death of the body. But J. Krishnamurti will go on living in the universal Consciousness, forever and forever.1
I was more shocked by the news than by the death. A man like J. Krishnamurti dies, and the papers don’t have space to devote to that man who for 90 years continuously has been helping humanity to be more intelligent, to be more mature. Nobody has worked so hard and so long. Just a small news article, unnoticeable – and if a politician sneezes, it makes headlines.2
I don’t feel sorry for his death. His death is beautiful; he has attained all that life is capable to give. But I certainly feel sorry for the whole world. It goes on missing its greatest flights of Consciousnesses, its highest peaks, its brightest stars. 3
1) Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries, Ch 8, Q 21
2) ibid, Ch 16, Q 26
3) ibid, Ch 15, Q 1
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