"Our brains, our minds are the result of a million years of knowledge. Man from the beginning of time must have asked himself if there is something more than this everlasting grind of work, of thought, of suffering, of sexual desires satisfied and the agony of having more, and all the rest of it. He must have asked a million years ago if there is a reality, if there is truth, if there is something timeless, something that cannot be measured by man, however clever, however erudite - from the very beginning of time.

That inquiry, that seed, is still with us. But in the inquiry, in the flowering of that seed of a million years of human longing, of hoping and trying to find out, he has been caught in illusions— in the illusory nature of gods, the illusions that he has created not only for himself but which, having created them for himself, imposes them on others—which is the function of the guru. So, that seed has never completely developed because we have been side-tracked, we have been carried away by those who say, ‘I know’, ‘Do this, don’t do that’, ‘Follow this system, don’t follow that system’, ‘I am a better guru than your guru’, ‘I know more, I am much more illumined than you.’ We have been side-tracked for centuries by the priests, by the believers in books, by those who say, ‘I know God.’ You know all this.

So this seed that has been planted in man, in his brain, for millions of years has never had the right soil, the right light, the right darkness— nothing. But it is there still. And during these talks, we are going to find out whether it is possible for that seed to grow and flower, multiply and cover the earth. That is the function, the necessity of every man because in this world there is such confusion, violence, corruption, every form of degeneration. And if we do not find that seed and let it flower, we are going to destroy ourselves."

– J. Krishnamurti
From the book titled The Seed of a Million Years