If I have been violent all my life, then my reaction will naturally be violent. But if I have lived without violence - not only physical violence but also psychological violence, which is aggression, competition, comparison, imitation, adaptation (all these are part of violence) - if I have lived as K lived, then when my friend or my sister or my wife is attacked, I will react according to the way I have lived. Do you understand? It depends on how I have lived. The art of living is the greatest art of all. To live not according to what someone else has said, but having found for oneself this ultimate art.

Explicit statement by Krishnamurti before his death in 1986

There is no successor or representative of mine who will continue the teaching, now or at any time in the future, in my name... Interpreters are not needed... Each person must directly observe his own activities and not through any theory or authority...