Once, this Fragmentation get established in the mind, and become known to oneself, of one's Fragmentation, it brings about the Thinking or Thoughts as Responses to the object one become aware of. That is, when there is a real need to 'Think' about an object, one feels that he is trying to Respond to the object one became aware of.
An Example: A Flower.
Krishnamurti always keeps his study locked, even when he is in the study. So if anyone knock at he door, K has to open it. One day Maid comes and knocks at the door. K opens it, and the maid comes in and places a big flower in the vase and leaves. Then K closes the door and locks it.
After a while, K goes out locking the study. Then K comes back one hour later. He finds the Big flower in the vase. Krishnamurti thinks, (Responds to the flower), "Who have come to my study in my absence and have kept this flower? How could have they opened the door, as I am the only one having the Key? There is someone having a duplicate key. He is spying on me!"
This type of Memory Gaps, which may not be regained, would create insecurity and suspicion of everyone, as they were spying on him. In this situation, one may not suspect the accuracy or correctness of his thinking, but he may be much more sure, that what he thinks is to be correct. But if he communicates his idea of someone spying on him, then there would be denials, laughs, ridicule, etc., which can create doubt in, in his thinking as well as doubt in everyone, suspecting everyone. Hence, one would feel 'Lonely' and abandoned. Hence, the inner Division would bring a Division, without as well.
An Example: A Bird.
Krishnamurti is in the garden with his brother. K sees a beautiful bird in a tree, and he was 'aware' of it. After a while, K want to tell his brother to look at the bird, and wanted to tell about the beauty of the bird and wanted to find out what type of bird is that, as brother is a bird expert.
So, K tries to think a suitable sentence to address the brother about the bird. That is, K was trying to Respond to the Bird. But when he tries, the past memory of the word 'Bird' does not come, as well as the past images of the birds does not come, as memory. What comes into the memory is the words of 'cat' and the images of cats. Hence, K tries to dispel these words and images and, tries again and again to think about the 'bird' he became aware of.
Then he silently gets up and walks up to his brother, drawing brothers attention to the bird in the tree, by pointing out by the finger. Brother after looking at it says, "Don't worry, that tree snake is harmless".
So disturbed and confused by his awareness and trying to 'Think' of a bird, which was denied by his brother, with a feeling of doubt about his thinking, K silently walks towards his room.
The Advantage of Knowing the Gap.
Krishnamurti had looked into his mind very attentively to identify, how it works. He recognized that his mind is Divided, Fragmented, when he Thinks. K also found if he does not think, the problem of Division does not arise, leading to insecurity, doubt, fear and sufferings. The solution he found for this situation is to remain 'Thoughtless', and this state K could not achieve as a goal or as an aim, but it has to happen, as 'Thinking' is happening to him, rather than K is thinking. Since, Krishnamurti was able to recognize the problem, and it had an advantage for him, bringing in a solution to the problem, which is Thoughtless, and which is Pathless as well.
So 'Thoughtless' is Pathless, that it has to happen, in the same way the 'Thinking' also for K is Pathless, just happens.
But what K could not detect in his mind are the attributes of the mind, which are missing creating a Gap, leading to Division and Fragmentation within, which K tries to relate to superficial Divisions and Fragmentations which exists in the society. When one has forgotten something of the past, then it is a Memory Gap, which makes an inability to compare the present object one becomes aware of, to the past similar objects in the mind to identify and recognize the present. Hence, K feels, that he is trying to Respond to the object he became aware of, which brings in erroneous details of the past, which do not have any relevance to the present object, K becomes aware of. K was able to detect this error, but he could not detect the attribute which is missing. When K has forgotten, how he can detect that he has forgotten, unless after a while the remembrance get restored, which never happens to K.
Apart from this Memory Gap, which happens to Krishnamurti, there is Cognitive Gap as well, hence what K become aware of cannot be compared with the similar objects of the past to recognize the present. Usually when we become aware of a tree, and if we want to think about the tree, we retain an image of the present tree we became aware of in our minds. That is by looking at the tree many times, we can enhance the Present Image, which is the Cognition of the tree, then we bring into the mind past similar images from the Memory store, and compare and recognize. This recognition is the Thinking, which may came as, "Oh this is a mango tree" by comparison or, "Oh, what is this tree? I have never seen this before", as there is nothing similar to be compared in past memory.
Hence, this Cognition of the present object, which takes place in the Mind, prior to the Thinking (Recognition), and Krishnamurti never discussed this cognition, as it is absent from K's mind creating a Gap between the Awareness and the Thinking. Hence for Krishnamurti, thinking is purely based on the Past memory alone, and gives rise to incorrect, erroneous thinking, which he therefore feels as a Response to the Awareness, rather than an act of continuity of flow of events, without having any gaps, division and fragmentation.
This brings in the end of the discussion of the Gaps and attributes of the Gaps, where I have only taken two attributes of the mind as constituting the Gaps. But there are other mind attributes, which are missing from K's mind, which I would not discuss at present, as these what I have taken is enough to explain the Gaps.
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