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Hierarchical
structure offers an excellent opportunity for self-expansion. You may
want brotherhood, but how can there be brotherhood if you are
pursuing spiritual distinctions? You may smile at worldly titles; but
when you admit the Master, the savior, the guru in the realm of the
spirit, are you not carrying over the worldly attitude? Can there be
hierarchical divisions or degrees in spiritual growth, in the
understanding of truth, in the realization of God? Love admits no
division. Either you love, or do not love; but do not make the lack
of love into a long-drawn-out process whose end is love. When you
know you do not love, when you are choicelessly aware of that fact,
then there is a possibility of transformation; but to sedulously
cultivate this distinction between the Master and the pupil, between
those who have attained and those who have not, between the savior
and the sinner, is to deny love. The exploiter, who is in turn
exploited, finds a happy hunting-ground in this darkness and
illusion. Separation between God or reality and yourself is brought
about by you, by the mind that clings to the known, to certainty, to
security. This separation cannot be bridged over; there is no ritual,
no discipline, no sacrifice that can carry you across it; there is no
savior, no Master, no guru who can lead you to the real or destroy
this separation. The division is not between the real and yourself;
it is in yourself. What is essential is to understand the increasing
conflict of desire; and this understanding comes only through
self-knowledge and constant awareness of the movements of the self.
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J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life
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