On Absolute Bliss

Somebody asked me what Krishnamurti meant by "beyond the known" or "absolute bliss". I replied by saying I really dont know. K is using words here only as suggestions. They cannot possibly lead one to the ineffable. They are not pointers for a man of desire who is seeking "God" or "absolute bliss". If desire is not understood, then these words or suggestions only serve to keep one in the trap of the known. It may be more relevant to ask why we have given so much importance to beliefs, concepts, knowledge, superstitions, God, etc? Why are we interested in what is "beyond the known" and "absolute bliss"? I am not trying to avoid the question he has asked. We seek bliss, God etc because our own lives are empty, lonely, devoid of meaning. So we try to find meaning through an idea, a projection. It is therefore much more important to understand why the mind moves in the groove of thought and intellect. Is it because we seek something beyond the mundane? Something which is far removed from our daily conflicts? Are we seeking peace & lasting happiness? Are we trying to capture those moments when as children we lived life in gay abandon? No worries. Only moments of laughter & feelings of great joy....Unfortunately as we grow up into adults we lose all that. Life becomes increasingly mechanical as we get caught in some repetitive activity. Dullness creeps in. Boredom and despair follow. Or the society does'nt give you what you are seeking-namely money, power, recognition etc. We then become neurotic. Or....we are crushed under the weight of authority. We either suffer a crushing defeat in the game of control & dominance or we succeed in gaining control over others if we are among the Stalins, Hitlers and Alexanders. This is the sad story of human existence. Not being able to end suffering we seek the help of God or some religion like Islam, Christianity, Hinduism etc. In their holy religious books they tell you to surrender to God. When one is suffering it is not very difficult to submit to the "will of God". Because, in that surrendering, thought finds a momentary avenue of release. One can let out steam and not be pressured for a while. Then the old game begins again...we start seeking pleasure through religious entertainment - bhajans, diwali, x-mas etc. After some years, old age sets in & it is time to say good bye. The same old loneliness and sorrow of death comes back. One dies grieving, not being able to give up one's attachments to the bank balance, wife or husband, the car, the favourite religious book etc etc. The objects of attachment can be many and we hold on to them for dear life! All through this drama of life, man never questions why he is living in pain, pleasure, fear, desire & sorrow. This is his consciousness. He lives in it by choice. He gets what he seeks. He does not get what he does not seek. In the negation of all ideas, concepts, beliefs projected by thought, there is also the ending of all that thought has bred in life - anger, jealousy,hatred, fear, desire and sorrow. When thought no longer breeds these common elements of our psychological make-up, when it has undertood its own place in the universal order of things, only then it is possible to be without time, without sowing the seeds of future moments of consciousness. All egotistic activities keep the wheel of time moving. The self finds continuity through these activities. Look at all those stories of greed, dishonesty and subterfuge that appear in the newspapers these days. All that is the story of the self, the 'me', the ego. In that story, there is nothing new. In that story, the last word is death.