Answer, sadly, yes. Imo yes. What is to follow in this post will be difficult to write, but I need to do so before I can get down to brass tacks. The question arises — did K consciously, or, perhaps better put, somewhat consciously, know he was disingenuous? For me, after conscious digestion of his spoken and written material plus the reading of certain biographical material and also the watching of certain videos, the links to some of which I may later post here, the answer is, sadly, yes. Btw many people reading are presumably not aware I was a K fanatic for several decades — by several, meaning not just three or four:-) I will be writing about this in the future, but, for now, when I first found a K book in the Sausalito library at around age twenty-five, never previously having heard of him, my life was (or at least was deeply felt to be) transformed. I was almost literally dancing in the streets, filled with great joy, and soon having very powerful and beautiful experiences of (what he called) meditation and, years later, what he called the flowering. This said, I was a troubled, deeply traumatized young person, prone to mystical experiences even as as child but who had no previous context into which to place or evaluate this particular kind of experience. More later, as I need to put it out before I begin some very serious writing here.
In any case, to know one is doing something and to not know one is doing something are two entirely different kinds of experience. I have seen plenty evidence that K did on some level consciously know what he was doing. There is this Dr. Seuss line from his book, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish: “Two fish in a tree, how can that be?” Well, in the land of human imagination, in the imagination of a child, in the imagination of someone who, understandably, does not want to suffer (any more), sometimes many magical things can be seeming to happen, but beware of sorcerers, and sometimes the sorcerer can be oneself. Complicit.
Deconstructing Krishnamurti 