Indian thinker and philosopher, Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (9 July 1918 – 22 March 2007) -popularly known as U. G. Krishnamurti - unlike most thinkers, spiritualists and mystics, questions the very precepts of enlightenment, self-realization, divine virtues and God. He believes that a human being looks for what he or she is rather than who he or she ought to be.
According to him, the history of human thinking has produced saints, teachers, gurus, and invented bhagvans / gods. "Man has already messed up his life, and religion has made it worse," he adds.
He, as a non-believer, holds that when a human being seeks to get what does not exist such as God, enlightenment, soul, bliss, love, ideal, etc., through thought, he or she only succeeds in pitting one thought against another, creating misery for himself or herself as well as for others.
Here, I summarise the basic assumptions of U. G. Krishnamurti's philosophy as I have understood from the post in Wikipedia.[1]
Human self-consciousness (‘I’ or ego) is not a thing, but a movement or its own continuity, characterised by ‘perpetual malcontent’ and a ‘fascist insistence’ for its own importance and survival
Humans inhabit a ‘world mind’ composed of the accumulated totality of man's knowledge and experience – the ‘thought sphere’ and all human experience - is the result of the ‘ process of thought’
Human brain acts like an antenna picking and choosing thoughts according to its needs or for ‘utilization of thoughts’ and there is nothing like ‘inner-self’ as held by most spiritualists.
When human thought movement or continuity is broken, even for a split second, the hold of self-conscious on the body is broken and the body or ‘self-conscious’ falls into its ‘natural rhythm’ with an arising ‘thoughts combust’ or freedom from self-consciousness
According to UG Krishnamurti, in the ‘natural rhythm’ state, the senses of the body take on independent existences (uncoordinated by any "inner self") and the ductless glands (that correspond to the locations of the Hindu chakras) become reactivated and the pineal gland, or the Ajna Chakra, takes over the functioning of the body in the natural state, as opposed to thought process or brain control.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U._G._Krishnamurti
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