Stopped In Our Tracks
Stories of U.G. In India from the Notebooks of K. ChandrasekharTranslated and Edited by J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty 2d/3d Series
Philosophy of Life
Q: What is your philosophy of life?
U.G.: None, whatsoever. Do you need a philosophy to live? Do you need to know the purpose of life and meaning of life to live? You are not living, for only a dead person is interested in asking such questions, not a living man. Whatever meaning you give to life, those ideas are picked up from here, there and everywhere. If it has any meaning, I would never know.
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Q: How do you distinguish the living from the dead? You say that we are dead.
U.G.: Any question that comes from anybody is born out of death, not out of a living thing.
U.G.: None, whatsoever. Do you need a philosophy to live? Do you need to know the purpose of life and meaning of life to live? You are not living, for only a dead person is interested in asking such questions, not a living man. Whatever meaning you give to life, those ideas are picked up from here, there and everywhere. If it has any meaning, I would never know.
Q: How do you distinguish the living from the dead? You say that we are dead.
U.G.: Any question that comes from anybody is born out of death, not out of a living thing.
