The Religious Man and the Fragmentary Response

     It is only the religious man that can bring about a fundamental revolution; but the man who has a belief, a dogma, who belongs [sectarianly] to any particular religion, is not a religious man.

     The religious man is he who understands the whole process of so-called religion, the various forms of dogma, the desire to be secure through certain formulas of ritual and belief.

     Such an individual breaks away from the framework of organized religion, from all dogma and belief, and seeks the highest; and it is he who is truly revolutionary, because every other form of revolution is fragmentary and therefore inevitably brings about further problems.

     But the man who is seeking to find out what is truth, what is God, is the real revolutionary, because the discovery of what is truth is an integrated response and not a fragmentary response.

(Krishnamurti’s 1st Public Talk in Bombay, 1955; emphasis added)