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₹350.00Quick ViewAldous Huxley encouraged Krishnamurti to write these commentaries on life, which consists of a series of dialogues with ordinary human beings whom Krishnamurti met in different parts of the world. Set in India, Europe and America, against a variety of landscapes, the encounters recorded here are both intense and illuminating. The Commentaries on Living Series represents an entirely new genre of writing – a blend of lyrical descriptions of nature, philosophical reflections and psychological insights,…
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₹350.00Quick ViewAldous Huxley encouraged Krishnamurti to write these commentaries on life, which consists of a series of dialogues with ordinary human beings whom Krishnamurti met in different parts of the world. Set in India, Europe and America, against a variety of landscapes, the encounters recorded here are both intense and illuminating. The Commentaries on Living Series represents an entirely new genre of writing – a blend of lyrical descriptions of nature, philosophical reflections and psychological insights,…
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₹350.00Quick ViewAldous Huxley encouraged Krishnamurti to write these commentaries on life, which consists of a series of dialogues with ordinary human beings whom Krishnamurti met in different parts of the world. Set in India, Europe and America, against a variety of landscapes, the encounters recorded here are both intense and illuminating. The Commentaries on Living Series represents an entirely new genre of writing – a blend of lyrical descriptions of nature, philosophical reflections and psychological insights,…
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₹70.00Quick ViewReligion is not separate from life: on the contrary it is life itself. It is this division between religion and life which has bred all the misery you are talking about. So we come to the basic question of whether it is possible in daily life in a state which for the moment, let us call enlightenment.
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₹299.00Quick ViewIn these discussions, Krishnamurti goes deeply into the question of human problems, drawing, in the process, a most interesting distinction between the ‘professional’ and the ‘human being’. He asks whether we do not regard ourselves as professionals first and as human beings afterwards. Our education generally makes us professionals in the sense that right from childhood we are trained to solve physical problems. The brain thus gets conditioned to solving problems, and it carries over…
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₹125.00Quick ViewDuring the year 1948, Krishnamurti held as usual a series of public talks in India, but in Bombay and Poona his talks were interspersed with meetings with teachers and parents. These special sessions took the form of Krishnamurti answering questions on education put to him by the audience. As Krishnamurti emphasizes in his opening remarks, his chief, if not sole, concern is that it is ‘the educator who needs educating’. By which he means that…
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₹150.00Quick ViewKrishnamurti had a life-long interest in education, and this book is the earliest and most expository of his books on the subject. Focusing on the central vision that life ‘has a wider and deeper significance’ and that it is the concern of education to come upon it, he explores various other connected themes – authority versus freedom, discipline, intelligence, and the role of religion in education.
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₹200.00Quick ViewThis book consists of fourteen out of the several dialogues that Krishnamurti held in the 1970s with his close associates, scholars, religious seekers, and others interested in inquiring into existential issues. These dialogues are not questions or answers or even an exchange of viewpoints. They form a new genre of communication typical of Krishnamurti—a tentative beginning, deep listening, a refusal to arrive at quick solutions, and an exploration that leads to newer and deeper perceptions.…
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₹195.00Quick ViewIf ever we are to understand ourselves, says Krishnamurti, we must look at the state of the world, with all its violence and conflict. To turn away from world events is for him not to be alive to what life has to teach us. Facing a World in Crisis presents a selection of talks thatKrishnamurti gave on how to live and respond to troubling and uncertain times. His message of personal responsibility and the importance of…
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₹350.00Quick ViewFirst published in 1995 to commemorate the birth centenary of J.Krishnamurti, Fire in the Mind consists of fifteen dialogues between Krishnamurti and Pupul Jayakar, a friend for many years and author of Krishnamurti: A Biography. Held between the years 1978 and 1984 these Dialogues cover a vast range of concerns – fear,sorrow,time,death,and the ending of the self. They also explore subjects central to scientific research today, such as the questions of biological survival, the nature of consciousness, and ageing and renewal of…
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₹220.00Quick ViewEver since it was published in 1969, this book has rightly been regarded as a primer on Krishnamurti’s teachings. In this book, we have for the first time a synthesis of what Krishnamurti has to say about the human predicament and the eternal problems of living. His words have been taken from over a hundred talks to audiences of all ages and nationalities throughout Europe and India. It was Krishnamurti himself who asked Mary Lutyens,…
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₹250.00Quick ViewHappy is the Man who is Nothing: Between 1948 and the early 1960s, Krishnamurti was easily accessible, and many people came to him. On walks, in personal meetings, through letters, the relationships blossomed. He wrote the following letters to a young friend who came to him wounded in body and mind. The letters, written between June 1948 and March 1960, reveal a rare compassion and clarity: the teaching and healing unfold; separation and distance disappear;…