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.Do you understand, sirs? No?I seek because I have a motive.The motive is, I want to behappy.I already know what happiness is, because I know whatunhappiness is.So my search for happiness is not search at all.It ismerely an effort to find some means of being what I call happy,which is the opposite of what I am.We know that process verywell.Now, please put yourself the next question, which is: is there amovement, a search, without any causation, without any pressure,without any motive? Don't say there is or there is not, because itwould be mere speculation.The fact is that you don't know.And tofind out if there is a movement which has no causation, you cannottranslate it in terms of what you have read in books.But what youcan do is to say, "I know the way of life which moves fromdiscontentment through fulfilment to discontentment, and I seethere is no end to that process".Then you can ask yourself thequestion, "Is there a movement of life which is not a reaction to theordinary movement and which has no centre as causation, asmotive?" But do not ask me, do not say, "Please tell us about it".Itis for you to find out.I say there is such a movement, a movementin which there is no causation, no stimulation, and which is not amere remembrance of things past.If you can find it you will seethat that movement is completely dissociated from the movement of contentment and discontentment, from this drive towardsfulfilment with its shadow of frustration.But to find that other movement you must go into this wholequestion of discontentment, you must think it out, feel it out,grapple with it, and then come to the other, which is to discover itfor yourself.To discover it you must be free from contentment anddiscontent; you must be free, and not ask how to be free.You willbe free only when you understand this whole process ofcontentment, in which there is frustration, fear, and all the rest ofit; and then you will come naturally and easily upon that movementwhich has no time or causation.It is not metaphysical, mystical, oranything of that kind, but it is an actual fact which the mind candirectly experience when it is free of this movement ofcontentment and discontentment.So you cannot possibly find out if there is a movement of life inwhich there is no motive till you have understood the wholeproblem of causation and the movement arising from thatcausation.It requires hard work, sirs, and no book, no temple, nogod, no guru can reveal it to you.You can just as well throw themall overboard and begin to inquire for yourself.Wisdom lies in theunderstanding of discontentment, and then you will find that thereis an experiencing which is not based upon previous experience.That experiencing has no motive, no ending, therefore it istimelessly creative.December 19, 1956 MADRAS 4TH PUBLIC TALK 23RD DECEMBER1956I think it is obvious that our problems are increasing throughout theworld.There is every kind of conflict, and the various opinions andanswers which are offered for the resolution of our problems onlyseem to lead to further confusion.If you observe you will see inthis country an extraordinarily rapid deterioration taking place,which is not imaginary but an actual fact; and seeing this wholeprocess of deterioration, this enormous decay of man's endeavourthrough the centuries, there are those who say you must return tothe past, you must go back to the temple, to the sacred books, youmust follow the traditional routine, the religious sanctions, andthereby re-establish yourself in righteousness.But is righteousness in the past? Does righteousness lie in anybook? Does righteousness come about through following anyleader, any authority? And is not the present decay, this moralcorruption and disintegration, the result of a `righteousness' that isbased on the authority of another, on the authority of a book, on theauthority of several leaders whom you have followed throughcenturies? Regardless of who it is, whether it is a political leader, acomforting saint, or a religious reformer, is not the very followingof another unrighteous?Is righteousness something that can be stored up, that can begathered and laid by for actions that demand a right response? Or isrighteousness something entirely different? It is not that we havelost righteousness, for probably we have never had it, and that iswhy there is the present decline.I don't know if you have considered this matter at all seriously, or have merely skimmedalong on the surface of life, gratified with the little things - a littlework, a little food, a little thought, a little family - , not being toodisturbed and letting the decline go on as it will.I think there mustbe some who have given serious thought to the matter - but not interms of reformation, because you can see, if you look around, thatreformation has not brought a new release of man's creativity
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