Random Obituaries: U.G. Krishnamurti

I just learned that my favorite anti-guru mystic had passed away.

"U.G. Krishnamurti, lovingly called UG by his friends and admirers all over the world, is no more. The end came on March 22, 2007 at 2.30 pm in an apartment built for him by his friends Lucia, Anita and Giovanni in their villa in Vallecrosia, Italy. As per UG’s advice, with no rituals or funeral rites, the cremation was carried out the next day at 2.45 pm, in Vallecrosia, Italy. He was eighty-eight years old."

U.G. Krishnamurti was not my guru. I'm not his devotee. He wouldn't like that anyway. But during the time I was so over my head with the idea of enlightenment and the whole guru thing, he was there to balance my views. It was as if he had slapped me in the face to remind me that what we seek cannot be given to us by others.

Godspeed U.G. Thank you for the reminder.