The notion of specificity runs deep in Guha’s expression. What is most important for him is not what one understands after listening to him, but the practical impact that information has on a system’s living reality. The jittery sense of self does not allow the impact of information to do its job by interpreting it through cultural ideas that create an intention-based movement and strangulate an individual. These however, do not address our core well-being.

According to Guha, our system has an inbuilt mechanism that allows the natural processing of information for a healthy neurobiological order in each of us which addresses our specific needs. One can be aware of the existence of such a process so that one does not stand in the way of the proper functioning of the system.

Sabyasachi Guha, who spent a lifetime trying “to find out the meaning and purpose of life”, was compelled to meet U.G. Krishnamurti in 1995 after being deeply shaken by reading Mind Is A Myth. For Guha, this was the beginning of an intense, close and pivotal association that lasted until U.G.’s death in 2007. Right from day one U.G.’s proximity created irreversible physical changes in Guha and U.G.’s constant negation brought about the dissolution of thought-induced myths and beliefs, freeing
him from conflict for good: “The system now stands in a place that does not have to imagine its own existence.”

In Thought Destroys the Rhythm of Life Guha reminds us that our physical system has tremendous innate intelligence and left to its own device without the imposition of thoughts and ideas will fall into its natural, harmonious rhythm. He says that the conflict in each one of us arises out of the movement of wanting to know “how” to achieve an imaginary ideal state. “True beginning of intelligence is the realization that anything we think or do to achieve that state will never address our total wellbeing”.

Guha cuts to the core of our existential problems and encourages us to challenge our preconceptions, attitudes and beliefs. He tells us to give importance to only that which is vital and functioning in our lives. “Out of this process something can emerge, which is not a belief; it is an overall confidence in the system itself.” Lastly, Guha asks us to recognize the “dead end” signpost of helplessness and sums up succinctly: “Hope is in deeply honest hopelessness.”

For Sabyasachi Guha, the functionality of U.G. Krishnamurti became an obsession from the first day he met him in 1995. He earnestly and intensely sought to understand the difference between the way U.G. functioned and the way most of us live our lives. In Dangerous to Ponder, he addresses questions such as “What evidence do we have that the way U.G. functioned was radically different from the way we function?” “Why did U.G. deny the legitimacy of religious and spiritual beliefs?” “What did U.G. mean when he said that the “natural state” he found himself in was acausal?”

Guha also examines the futility of knowledge to resolve conflict, our tendency to create myth and its negative ramifications on the physical body, the interesting observation that the biological mechanism used to protect the physical body uses the same mechanism to safeguard the person against psychological fear, the advantages and limitations of the “parallel world” and its functional value, and the
true meaning of renunciation.

To those who seriously seek the meaning and purpose of life, Guha’s words are shocking to hear and difficult to uphold. He offers no hope, says there is no such thing as love, truth God, or enlightenment and no way out of the misery we face in our daily living. Guha insists there is nothing to get from him or from anyone and that ultimately what we seek is freedom from psychological conditioning brought about by society’s constant demands.

In this talk, Sabyasachi Guha, who was closely associated with U.G. Krishnamurti for over a decade, gives deep insights into the “natural order of the body” which, he says, is our true freedom. Guha adds that this natural order, which is innate in every individual, cannot be brought about by the intellect but can unfold only through complete trust. Paradoxically, any effort on our part to bring about this order inhibits the natural process of its emergence.

In Life Discards Everything Guha starts with describing the natural order which he has expounded systematically and in great detail in his Bengali book In the Company of U.G. — 14 Days in Palm Springs and goes on to narrate the pivotal and life-changing relationship he had with U.G.

An excerpt from In the Company of U.G. — 14 Days in Palm Springs sums up in Guha’s own words the beauty of the natural order:

“Each one of us is a unique creation of nature and an incomparable movement. A great intelligence is continuously working to maintain this living movement and its equilibrium with the external world. If somehow a “complete trust” – in Bengali we call it “paripurno astha” – develops in us, the naturally induced order, pre-programmed at birth, will begin to unfold. Life then begins to function in a very different way. The internal power that is associated with the pre-programmed order is so far beyond our
imagination that its exhibition and its far-reaching effects are incomprehensible. All that you need to move in the field of living is naturally supplied by that power, the power that comes out of that order.”

Sabyasachi Guha first met U.G. Krishnamurti in 1995 in New York. Right from the onset U.G. had a powerful and physical affect on him which continued throughout their association till U.G.’s death in 2007. Guha describes some of the experiences as extremely uncomfortable and uncontrollable processes, like being “visited by the messenger of death.” He later realized that U.G. was serious when he remarked, “You wouldn’t touch this with a ten-foot barge pole.” As Guha continued to spend time with U.G., he underwent a radical, irreversible physical transformation:

“I have turned into a two-legged animal with a peculiar order, and it does not want to be anywhere or spend time with anybody if it has to compromise that order.”

Moving, honest and confronting, Guha and friends share their experiences of their interactions with U.G. Krishnamurti and the various aspects of the understandings that subsequently unfolded.

Sabyasachi Guha, author of In the Company of U.G. Krishnamurti—14 Days in Palm Springs (Bengali) and translator of U.G. Krishnamurti, A Life by Mahesh Bhatt into Bengali (originally translated for his mother), invites us to embrace our uniqueness and to trust the dynamic processes which keep us alive and functioning so that the “‘nature-induced order” pre-programmed at birth can unfold.

In Road to Insanity, Guha covers such issues as the relationship between “lapse of time and space” and creative output, the importance of complete focus to penetrate deep into the unconscious for answers, the purpose of self-aggrandizement and its origin, misconceptions about “choiceless awareness” as propagated by J Krishnamurti, the natural response of “attraction as the action” versus thought- induced attraction cultivated by culture and the effects of the continuous movement of thinking on the physical body.

From a young age, Guha was spurred by a passionate yearning to understand his own nature and in the process became well versed in the traditional Indian scriptures, including mythology, mysticism and spiritual and yogic practices such as meditation and hatha yoga. Although he says he had many phenomenal spiritual experiences, none of these helped to resolve his inner conflicts. It wasn’t until he met U.G. Krishnamurti in 1995 that a major shift occurred and ended his seeking once and for all.

Sabyasachi Guha, retired physicist, met U.G. Krishnamurti in 1995 and remained in close association with him until U.G’s death in 2007. In U.G. he felt he had finally met the person who was able to address his inner conflicts and end his seeking once and for all.

In Can’t Lose A Friend I Don’t Have Guha addresses the concept of Advaita Vedanta and explains its stark non-reality.

“The model is an assumption and the reporting mechanism itself a divisive process. These are concepts and they come to us through intellectual and logical thinking, therefore it is always problematic. How do we address the oneness of life? One can not say, “I have experienced non-duality.” By trying to understand the concept one will invest tremendously in the dualistic nature of thought and imagination, and in the process of trying to understand the experience logically, create ideas and various
aspects of Advaita.”

“If you attempt to imitate a behavior about a particular state and try to prove you are functioning accordingly, you will fool yourself and mislead others.”

Sabyasachi Guha, who moved closely with U.G. Krishnamurti for more than a decade, encourages us to trust that everything we need to function in equilibrium with the external world is naturally supplied by the internal power that comes out of the “natural order”, innate in all individuals, waiting to be activated. You Is a Camouflage was inspired by a key passage from Guha’s Bengali book, In the Company of U.G. Krishnamurti—14 Days in Palm Springs which systematically expounds the “natural order”.

Guha was determined to understand, from both a spiritual and scientific perspective, why he was so powerfully affected by U.G. whose functionality appeared to be the outcome of a “natural process”. However, he was soon convinced that it was an exercise in total futility, the main pitfall being there was no direct correlation to what was unfolding inside him and the use of language to communicate it.

“It can’t be explained or conveyed, therefore it’s of no use to anyone, nor can it be given or taken. It is deep down, unknowable for me.”

Guha does not promote any religious concepts or spiritual doctrines. In fact, he dismisses them all as pure fiction born out of imagination. He unequivocally states that information-gathering and knowledge only help us to function sanely and intelligently in the world. The rest is up to Mother Nature.