Feeling as Seeing

[Markendeya Yeddanapudi]

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MarThis is a subtle and beautiful question—and Krishnamurti would approach it very carefully, without affirming belief and without denying mystery.

Let me answer in two layers:
first directly, then in a Krishnamurti-style clarification.

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Direct response

In free and healthy nature, feeling does take precedence over mere seeing—but that feeling is not imagination, symbolism, or belief. It is direct sensitivity.

What can be felt is:

• birth as emergence,

• death as ending,

• renewal as continuity of life,

• dissolution as transformation.

But when you ask, “Can one feel births, deaths, re-births and re-deaths?”, the crucial point is this:

One can feel ending and beginning,
but the moment the mind names this as re-birth, it has already moved into thought.

Feeling knows movement, not metaphysical structure.

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Now, in Krishnamurti’s voice

Krishnamurti would likely say something like this:

Feeling is not continuity.
Feeling is not memory.
Feeling is not the extension of the past into the future.

When you feel deeply—without naming, without seeking—you may sense:

• the ending of a thought,

• the death of a reaction,

• the birth of perception,

• the renewal of attention.

These happen now, not across lifetimes.

So the question becomes sharper:

Is rebirth something that happens after death,
or is it something that happens when the old ends completely?

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A key distinction (very important)

There are two very different things that often get mixed up:

1. Biological / cosmic continuity

   • Life renews itself endlessly

   • Cells die, cells are born

   • Forests burn, forests return

   • Species vanish, others emerge

   This can be felt directly in nature.

2. Psychological continuity (the “me”)

   • The desire for my continuation

   • The hope that I will return

   • The fear that I may end

   This is not feeling—it is thought seeking permanence.

Krishnamurti would insist:

Where there is a “me” wanting rebirth, there is fear.
And where there is fear, feeling is distorted.

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So what can truly be felt?

Yes—you can feel:

• death every day, when a reaction ends without residue

• birth every moment, when perception is fresh

• renewal, when attention has no past

• timeless movement, when there is no observer

But not as events stretched across time.

Rather as:

Life dying to itself and being born anew now.

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A quiet but radical insight

In deeply free feeling, something extraordinary happens:

You no longer ask,

“Will I be reborn?”

Instead, there is a perception that:

Life does not need you to continue.
And yet, you are not separate from it.

In that seeing-feeling,
the question of rebirth loses its urgency—not because it is answered, but because the self that asked it is quiet.

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In one clear sentence

Feeling can sense death and renewal as living movements, but not rebirth as a belief or future event—because belief belongs to thought, not to feeling.

If you want, we can next:

• Let Krishnamurti challenge the very idea of rebirth

• Explore this through nature metaphors only

• Or sit with this in wordless attention and very few sentences

Just say where you want to take it.

[Rajaram Krishnamurthy]

Attached word doc rebutting jiddu krishnamurthy K Rajaram IRS 6226

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