U. G. Krishnamurti
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Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, better known as U.G. Krishnamurti, or just U.G., is not a guru or a teacher or a philosopher or any kind. Many people have sought him for guidance on spiritual and metaphysical matters, but he has time and again stated that he has no teaching to give and that it is impossible for such a teaching to be transmitted between persons in any case. He writes no books, but instead others record his talks and publish them in book form. He has been called an anti-guru, and states that "a real guru, if there is one, frees you from himself."
The main theme which emerges from the discussions with him is the impossibility and unnessecity of any human change, radical or mundane. U.G. repeats endlessly that the body and its actions are aldready perfect, and attempts to change or mold the body or its actions are pure and simple violence. The psyche or self or mind, an entity which he denies has any being, is composed of nothing but this demand to bring about change in either the material or in itself. The human self-conciousness is not a thing, but a movement, one characterized by perpetual malcontent and a "fascist" insistence on its own importance and survival.
U.G. Insists that neither his experience of "Calamity" nor his upbringing or life experiences can help anyone in anyway.