Photo by NEOM on Unsplash I want to tell you a story today about a really interesting man I studied about in seminary in Berkeley so many years ago. His name was Jiddu Krishnamurti. He was born in 1895 into a Hindu Brahmin family in Mandanapalle, which is in the southeastern part of India. The Brahmins were and are considered the highest caste in India. (The word Brahmin is not to be confused with the word Brahma – the creator god of the Trimurti (Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva).

Photo by Dawid Zawiła on Unsplash When I was 22 and started going to sea aboard commercial merchant vessels as a junior officer, I sailed aboard tankers carrying various petroleum products to ports on the coasts of the United States, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. The tankers I sailed on in those days carried about 20,000 tons of a product such as gasoline or jet fuel which translates to about 7 million gallons. Now 7 million gallons of gasoline or jet fuel has a lot of