Explanations don't help in the real sense || Acharya Prashant on, Jiddu Krishnamurti (2018)

Explanations blind you,

they prevent you from actually seeing ‘what is’.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Questioner: Acharya Ji, JK says, “Explanations blind you, they prevent you from actually seeing ‘what is’.” But I require explanations all the time from the Guru.

Please throw some light on this.

Acharya Prashant: The problem is linguistic. It relates to the use of words Keshav (the questioner).

When Krishnamurti says, “Explanations blind you, they prevent you from actually seeing ‘what is’,” what he means is that you want to describe something at its own level, at its own plane. And the dissolution of anything never lies in its own plane.

And therefore all your explanations are merely elaborations or translations. You are just restating the situation. Your explanations are just the problem stated in other words. And that obviously won’t help.