Krishnamurti’s ideas of knowledge emphasize the very dependence of us on freedom. It is the freedom to think and to act. Krishnamurti considers thought as the very necessary fact of our knowledge. But he is not in favor of giving the final place to knowledge. He says that fossilized ideas of our thought will make knowledge as a dangerous one. Knowledge provides us with the knowledge of the past. It cannot provide any guarantee that it will be fit for today. So he says that we shall have freedom from the known. So comes out his book Freedom from the Known. Such knowledge will not help us to understand the world we live in. It distorts our perception. It will not provide us with the fuller understanding of reality. Knowledge in his sense becomes very necessary to the mechanical function of the mind. Yet he is not prepared to accept all knowledge to be worthy. He answers the question how and where we can   draw the line that divides the knowledge to be forgotten and the knowledge to be retained generally we come across in this context the place of decision. Decision is formed basing on the principle of pleasure.  This brings in again the other element which comes out of our decision. It is the will. He answers:

          In decision there is the element of will. Will is the accumulated, concentrated form of desire.

          Right? Desire which says, “I must do that,” but I call it won’t go into it now. We are saying that will is a great element in decision, and on that tradition we are conditioned. We are questioning that action because will, which is essentially desire, is a divisive factor; the will to succeed, the will to do something and my wife is against it, the me and the not me, and so on.³⁸