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Jiddhu Krishnamurti (1895 - 1986)

TRADITION AND REVOLUTION DIALOGUE 28
BOMBAY 16TH FEBRUARY 1971
'RIGHT COMMUNICATION'

Questioner A: Sir, we have been listening to you with all the attention of which we are capable, with our minds and with all our analytical capacities. We have covered every inch of the ground and we no longer accept anything we do not understand. Between you and us there has been verbal communication and there has been communication beyond words. By ourselves we have not been able to penetrate the verbal barrier and reach that understanding which comes beyond words. When I sit by myself, I find that all communication with myself remains at the verbal level. I wonder whether we could take up for discussion the problem of communication.

Tradition has classified communication into four different states vaikhari, madhyama, pashyanti and