The scriptures talk of false, rather than the Truth || On J. Krishnamurti (2016)
Questioner (Q): Sir I have read that a few teachers have spoken about the consciousness and life after death. So, I am confused that how did they come to know about this. Are these just concepts or anything?
Acharya Prashant (AP): It’s just a concept.
It’s just that there are some very destructive concepts. To get rid of these destructive concepts, sometimes, just as a tool, the Teacher uses a few more benign concepts but even the benign concepts turn malignant if they overstay their utility. It must come and dissolve the pre-existing set of concepts and then itself disappear.
Q: Sir, when I read something, either I will have trust in what I am reading, or I will negate. When I don’t trust or when I am negating, in both the cases, why at all is there a need to read?
AP: Just read, with no particular objective, without the need to believe or negate. There is no need to believe everything or anything that you read.
The scriptures, mind you, are not Truth. They are a tool.
If something is put in your eyes so that your eyes may start seeing, then the medicine is not the seeing, it’s just that which facilitates the seeing. One should never ever imagine that the scriptures are talking of Truth. No. The scriptures are rather talking of falseness. Their objective is to clear the falseness, and falseness cleared is Truth shining.
