问题在于，宗教、理论、理想与信仰中，有真理吗？

让我们来省察。我们所说的求道心（religion），究竟指什么？当然，不是指组织化的宗教，如印度教、佛教、基督教，这些宗教都拥有组织化的信仰以及布道、皈依、改宗、强制等。那么，在组织化的宗教里，存在真理吗？或许，真理被淹没或沉沦于宗教中，但组织化宗教本身不是真理，而是人为造作，将人与人彼此分割开来。你是一名穆斯林，我是一个印度教徒，另一位是基督徒或佛教徒，我们彼此争吵，相互屠戮。这样的宗教中存在真理吗？

我们在探讨的不是求道心，而是组织化的宗教里有没有真理。我们被宗教束缚太深，以为真理就在宗教中，而且坚信只要自称是印度教徒，俨然就成了什么人物，就能发现神。先生，这是多么荒唐啊！要发现神，发现道，必须具备至德；所谓至德（virtue），就是心灵的自由；唯心灵自由不羁，才能发现道，而当你的心灵受缚于宗教组织及其信条，就不能发现真理。

那么，在理论、理想与信仰中，存在真理吗？为什么你要抱持信仰？显然，信仰能给你安全与慰藉，会给你指引。你的内心是恐惧的，你渴望保护，渴望依赖某人，所以你编织出理想，来蒙蔽自心，以免明白真相。这样，理想就变成了行动的阻碍。

——克里希那穆提《生命书：365观心日课》（The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti）

Is There Truth in Religions?

The question is: Is there not truth in religions, in theories, in ideals, in beliefs?

Let us examine. What do we mean by religion? Surely, not organized religion, not Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity—which are all organized beliefs with their propaganda, conversion, proselytism, compulsion, and so on. Is there any truth in organized religion? It may engulf, enmesh truth, but the organized religion itself is not true. Therefore, organized religion is false, it separates man from man. You are a Muslim, I am a Hindu, another is a Christian or a Buddhist—and we are wrangling, butchering each other. Is there any truth in that?

We are not discussing religion as the pursuit of truth, but we are considering if there is any truth in organized religion. We are so conditioned by organized religion to think there is truth in it that we have come to believe that by calling oneself a Hindu, one is somebody, or one will find God. How absurd, sir; to find God, to find reality, there must be virtue. Virtue is freedom, and only through freedom can truth be discovered—not when you are caught in the hands of organized religion, with its beliefs.

And is there any truth in theories, in ideals, in beliefs? Why do you have beliefs? Obviously, because beliefs give you security, comfort, safety, a guide. In yourself you are frightened, you want to be protected, you want to lean on somebody, and therefore, you create the ideal, which prevents you from understanding that which is. Therefore, an ideal becomes a hindrance to action.

DECEMBER 13