Krishnamurti and Osho are as different as Truth and Truth || Acharya Prashant (2015)

Questioner: Acharya Ji, today let’s talk about the two very famous and inscrutable Masters of the 20th century.

Acharya Prashant: (Reading the questioner’s mind)

Yes, you want to talk about Osho and J. Krishnamurti, that whether there is any difference in their method, or they converge at some point.

Q: Sir, you are saying that the Guru takes different forms. Each rung of that ladder has a different colour. Not only it is different in colour, it may also be different in Silence. So, each rung is different, right? But these two greats are North Pole and South Pole to each other.

There is a quote by Osho where he says, “Krishnamurti failed because he could not touch the human Heart.” This is Osho on Krishnamurti. The title of the book is from where I have taken this quote is ‘Socrates poisoned again after twenty-five Century’.

He further adds, “Krishnamurti failed because he could not touch the human Heart. He could only reach the human head. The Heart needs some different approaches. This is where I have differed with him all my life. Unless the human Heart is reached, you cannot be over-repeating parrot-like words. They do not mean anything.”