Your gods and your thoughts are limited | Krishnamurti

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]So thought, which has planned this society, which has divided the world into Asia and Europe, the communist, the socialist, the capitalist and the democratic republican – all that is created by thought.

[00:00:22]It is simple.

[00:00:25]The army, the navy, the airforce, to kill not only for transportation but also to kill.

[00:00:35]This is obvious, isn't it?

[00:00:37]So thought is very important in our life because without thought we can't do anything.

[00:00:47]Right?

[00:00:50]For you to come here from a distance required planning, adjusting, taking a train, aeroplane, taking a bus, etc., etc. all that is part of your thinking.

[00:01:06]Right? So what is thinking?

[00:01:11]You work it out, don't listen to me. What is thinking?

[00:01:19]You can't live without a certain kind of thinking. Right?

[00:01:24]Planning, going back to your house, going back to do your work and so on, you are married sex and... Everything is contained in the process of thought.

[00:01:39]So what is thinking?

[00:01:43]The speaker has talked about it a lot so don't go back to his books.

[00:01:52]Don't say, 'Yes, I have heard that before'.

[00:01:57]But here you forget all the books, all the things you have read because we must approach this each time anew.

[00:02:08]So thinking is based on knowledge. Right?

[00:02:14]If you had no knowledge, how to come here or take a bus or this or that, you wouldn't be here.

[00:02:22]So knowledge, memory, thought. Right?

[00:02:39]And we have accumulated tremendous knowledge: how to sell each other, how to exploit each other, how to build bridges, how to create gods and temples – we have done all that.

[00:03:02]The various ashramas where they're all... – you know all that business, concentration camps of a certain kind.

[00:03:09]So thought has done all this.

[00:03:14]Created the army, the navy, the aeroplane.

[00:03:19]Thought has also, through knowledge temples and all that business.

[00:03:28]So without experience there is no knowledge.

[00:03:34]Right?

[00:03:37]Be logical sirs.

[00:03:40]Logic is necessary up to a certain point.

[00:03:44]But if you start without logic, clarity, then you can do – you become superstitious imaginative, coming to conclusions, building temples and all that kind of nonsense.

[00:03:59]So without experience there is no knowledge.

[00:04:06]The scientists are adding everyday something new.

[00:04:11]Please follow this carefully, if you don't mind.

[00:04:16]Experience is limited. Right?

[00:04:20]Because we are adding more and more to it through knowledge.

[00:04:24]Experience, knowledge stored in the brain as memory and then that is the beginning of thought.

[00:04:36]Right?

[00:04:37]Am I right? Or are you right?

[00:04:43]What do you say?

[00:04:46]God, don't you feel anything?

[00:04:52]So experience is always limited. Right?

[00:05:01]Because you are adding more and more and more everyday in the scientific world in your own life you learn something more.

[00:05:10]So experience is limited, therefore knowledge is limited, memory is limited and therefore thought is limited.

[00:05:22]Right?

[00:05:24]Am I sane or insane?

[00:05:30]And we live by thought.

[00:05:35]So we never recognise, though thought can imagine the most extraordinary heaven and hell the Olympic gods of the Greeks, the Egyptian gods, do you know anything about all that?

[00:05:51]No, it doesn't matter.

[00:05:54]So, your thought is always limited and your gods whom thought has created will always be limited.

[00:06:08]Right?

[00:06:09]I know you don't like this but –don't hear it.

[00:06:15]So your gods, your thinking, however wide it may be or however narrow it may be, all this is limited.

[00:06:31]And from this limitation we try to find the energy.

[00:06:36]You understand what I am saying?

[00:06:39]We try to find the origin, the beginning of creation.