anti-guru
October 2008 
Random Obituaries: U.G. Krishnamurti
~C4Chaos
(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)
I just learned that my favorite anti-guru mystic had passed away.
"U.G. Krishnamurti, lovingly called UG by his friends and admirers all over the world, is no more. The end came on March 22, 2007 at 2.30 pm in an apartment built for him by his friends Lucia, Anita and Giovanni in their villa in Vallecrosia, Italy. As per UG’s advice, with no rituals or funeral rites, the cremation was carried out the next day at 2.45 pm, in Vallecrosia, Italy. He was eighty-eight years old."
U.G. Krishnamurti was not my guru. I'm not his devotee. He wouldn't like that anyway. But during the time I was so over my head with the idea of enlightenment and the whole guru thing, he was there to balance my views. It was as if he had slapped me in the face to remind me that what we seek cannot be given to us by others.
Godspeed U.G. Thank you for the reminder.
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Oh.
I feel quite shaken. He was and is and always will be a huge inspiration to me. I always hoped I’d get to meet him one day. He died on my mother’s birthday. No, he wasn’t my guru either, no one has been, but he certainly is one of my many guides and teachers in this life. And a very beautiful man, inside and out. I always remember the story (no doubt true) that at the end of every year he gave away all his left-over money and started with zero at the beginning of the new year.
Thank you C4 for sharing this.
Thank you U.G. I know I often called you ‘the grumpy krishnamurti’ but I know you were much much more than that.
“I always remember the story (no doubt true) that at the end of every year he gave away all his left-over money and started with zero at the beginning of the new year.”
i didn't know that. makes me respect U.G. even more.
Inspired by you, I also wrote a blog on U.G.. I found some new links which you might find fun, they are in one of my last comments. I especially liked the page - “Travels with U.G.”. eg, in New York:
“U.G. told me that he had been pickpocketed outside his hotel and someone took $95 out of his front pocket. He didn't seem upset, only impressed by the finesse of the thief, he wondered if the thief had x-ray eyes to see where the money was. He said it was the oddest sensation to feel a hand in his pocket, then look down at his own two hands and ask himself whose hand was in his pocket. He said the thief needed the money more than he did and he wished he could have taken him to lunch at a five-star restaurant to express his admiration. He said he likes people to use their talents and that the thief was a master at thieving and deserved what he got. U.G. says, “Steal, but don't get caught!””
LOL. that's classic U.G. :) thanks for sharing.
I view UG as a hero of humankind. What he has said is best understood as a critique of the sad state of affairs the human race has fallen into than an addition to the spiritual literature. That having been said, he clearly was a great Sage, which is the highest expression of human potential. He remains by far the finest example of a human being that I have ever meet or heard of in our era.
In all the fourty years I knew him, I never saw the slightest fault in his integrity. His loyalty to his friends was off the charts. He could have had a large organization, and chose instead to leave nothing behind. He never made a dime from the books people published based upon what he said. I have no doubt that he transcended J.Krishnamurti in every way. I believe that JK was the harbinger for UG's appearence and there is much to be learned by the study of their joint story.
For those of you who are new to the subject, I suggest you go to the original material on the Web. UG can be very hard to take. This is because we are in the Matrix. Remember, Neo had a very hard time at first when Morpheus told him where he was at. UG's devotion was, and is to the “Neo” in all of us.