Дневник Кришнамурти - [8]
Западная часть небосклона утратила свой золотистый цвет, и над горизонтом появился новый месяц, юный,
Death is everywhere and we never seem to live with it. It is a dark, frightening thing to be avoided, never to be talked of. Keep it away from the closed door. But it is always there. The beauty of love is death and one knows neither. Death is pain and love is pleasure and the two can never meet; they must be kept apart and the division is the pain and agony. This has been from the beginning of time, the division and the endless conflict. There will always be death for those who do not see that the observer is the observed, the experiencer is the experienced. It is like a vast river in which man is caught, with all his worldly goods, his vanities, pains and knowledge. Unless he leaves all the things he has accumulated in the river and swims ashore, death will be always at his door, waiting and watching. When he leaves the river there is no shore, the bank is the word, the observer. He has left everything, the river and the bank. For the river is time and the banks are the thoughts of time: the river is the movement of time and thought is of it. When the observer leaves everything which he is, then the observer is not. This is not death. It is the timeless. You cannot know it, for what is known is of time; you cannot experience it: recognition is made up of time. Freedom from the known is freedom from time. Immortality is not the word, the book, the image, you have put together. The soul, the «me», the atman is the child of thought which is time. When time is not then death is not. Love is.
The western sky had lost its colour and just over the horizon was the new moon, young,
робкий, нежный. Казалось, что по дороге проходит всё: свадьба, смерть, смех детей и чьё-то рыдание. Рядом с месяцем сияла единственная звезда.
20 сентября 1973
В это утро река была особенно прекрасна; солнце только поднималось над деревьями и над деревней, спрятавшейся за ними. Воздух был неподвижен, и на реке не было даже самой слабой ряби. Днём станет совсем жарко, но сейчас было довольно прохладно, и одинокая обезьяна сидела на солнышке. Она всегда сидела здесь одна, большая и грузная. Днём она исчезала, а рано утром взбиралась на верхушку тамариндового дерева; когда становилось жарко, казалось, что дерево поглощало её. Золотисто-зелёные мухоловки сидели на парапете вместе с голубями: грифы были всё ещё на верхних ветках другого тамаринда. Была безмерная тишина, и ты сидел на скамье, потерянный для этого мира.
Мы возвращались из аэропорта по тенистой дороге, обсаженной деревьями, на которых хрипло кричали зелёные и красные попугаи. На дороге мы увидели что-то, показавшееся нам большим тюком. По мере того как машина приближалась, тюк становился человеком, почти голым, лежащим поперёк дороги. Машина остановилась, и мы вышли. Его тело было большим, а голова очень маленькой; взгляд его был устремлён сквозь листву в удивительно синее небо. Мы тоже взглянули вверх, чтобы увидеть, на что он так пристально глядел: небо было действительно синее, а листва — действительно зелёная. Он был уродлив и, как говорили, был одним из деревенских дураков. Он и не подумал пошевелиться, и машина должна была очень осторожно его объехать. Верблюды с поклажей и громко разговаривающие дети шли мимо, не обращая на него ни малейшего внимания. Пробежала собака, сделав широкий круг. Попугаи были заняты своим
shy and tender. On the road everything seemed to be passing, marriage, death, the laughter of children and someone sobbing. Near the moon was a single star.
20 TH SEPTEMBER 1973
The river was particularly beautiful this morning; the sun was just coming over the trees and the village hidden among them. The air was very still and there was not a ripple on the water. It would get quite warm during the day but now it was rather cool and a solitary monkey was sitting in the sun. It was always there by itself, big and heavy. During the day it disappeared and turned up early in the morning on the top of the tamarind tree: when it got warm the tree seemed to swallow it. The golden green flycatchers were sitting on the parapet with the doves, and the vultures were still on the top branches of another tamarind. There was immense quietness and one sat on a bench, lost to the world.
Coming back from the airport on a shaded road with the parrots, green and red, screeching around the trees, one saw across the road what appeared to be a large bundle. As the car came near, the bundle turned out to be a man lying across the road, almost naked. The car stopped and we got out. His body was large and his head very small; he was staring through the leaves at the astonishingly blue sky. We looked up too to see what he was staring at and the sky from the road was really blue and the leaves were really green. He was malformed and they said he was one of the village idiots. He never moved and the car had to be driven round him very carefully. The camels with their load and the shouting children passed him without paying the least attention. A dog passed, making a wide circle. The parrots were busy with their
