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Krishnamurti is one of those thinkers who believes that no external source, may that be an authority like a prophet or a Guru, scriptures like Bible or the Bhagavad-Gita, or an organised religion like Christianity, can impart us the ultimate knowledge of our existence. The only source is our mind and our thoughts. Secondly, only our own awakening can bring about a transformation in our lives; none, other than (we), can do it for us. He went a step further and believed that dependence on the external sources is a hindrance rather than a help in our spiritual progress. For him, God was the single most, the biggest invention and enslaver of human mind. Dr Ruben Gonzalez, in his conversations with Krishnamurti, once told him that people were angry at him for the things that he had said about God "God is disorder and if man is God, creation, God has to be horrible, a monstrous entity. God must be disorder since we live in disorder. If He made us like He is and we are killing each other, then, He must be monstrous." (Krishnamurti, Sannen, 1980).