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₹250.00Quick ViewWe never put the impossible question. We are always putting the question of what is possible. If you put an impossible question, your mind then has to find the answer in terms of the impossible, not of what is possible. All the great scientific discoveries are based on this—the impossible. By means of a series of exchanges, Krishnamurti helps his audience to explore matters such as personal relationships, the nature of pleasure and joy, the…
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₹160.00Quick ViewWhen Krishnamurti came to India in November 1985, he was in his ninety-first year. He had returned, in the words of a friend, to ‘say goodbye’. Despite his terminal illness, he visited the Rajghat School in Varanasi, the Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh, and Vasanta Vihar in Madras to give public talks and participate in the discussions with all the vigour and passionate concern of the previous sixty years of his working life. In…
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₹299.00Quick ViewWith Krishnamurti’s death in 1986, aged 90, Mary Lutyens was able to complete her perceptive books on this extraordinary man. Only now has she been able, in this one-volume biography, to bring his life into true perspective. It is a brief but absorbing account of Krishnamurti’s life, and in it she seeks to understand his death (and Death itself) in terms of his own words on the subject. The author claims no more than to…
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₹180.00Quick ViewContains a series of penetrating dialogues between the religious teacher Krishnamurti and the physicist David Bohm. The starting point of their engaging exchanges is the question: if truth is something totally different from reality, then what place has action in daily life in relation to truth and reality? We see Krishnamurti and Bohm exploring the nature of consciousness and the condition of humanity. These enlightening dialogues address issues of truth, desire, awareness, tradition, and love.
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₹275.00Quick ViewThe third volume in the series titled ‘Selections from the Decades’, this book consists of twenty-three public talks that Krishnamurti gave between 1961 and 1968. Whereas in the 1950s, Krishnamurti dwelt largely on individual change, his focus here is on a radical mutation in human consciousness as a whole. Addressing large international audiences in different parts of the world, Krishnamurti points out that the present crisis is not just what we perceive outwardly in society;…
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₹150.00Quick ViewIn these talks, given in Saanen, Switzerland, and Amsterdam in 1981, Krishnamurti likens the human mind to a computer that has been ‘programmed’. Each human being thinks according to his particular program which dominates him; each one is caught is his particular ‘network of thought’: What we regard as personality, the ego or the ‘I’ is no more than a programmed network of thinking.
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₹350.00Quick ViewIn 1977, Krishnamurti met with a group of Trustees of the Krishnamurti Foundations and, for more than a month, talked to them about the importance of living the teachings and thereby keeping it alive in the schools and adult study centres he had founded. ‘The very teachings are sacred, holy. The investigation of that teaching leads to, or brings about, the truth, which is holy. And if we are committed to that, to the investigation…
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₹150.00Quick ViewTalks in Madras 1979-80 This series of six talks, given by Krishnamurti in Madras in 1979-80, marks a departure from his usual style of exposition. Usually in the opening talk he would dwell first on the problems of the world and then on the psychological factors underlying them. But here he starts straightaway with the most ancient quest of man to find that which is sacred. ‘Man must have asked a million years ago, from…
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₹250.00Quick ViewThis volume, divided into three parts, contains unusual aspects of Krishnamurti’s teachings. The first section explores the reasons why mankind has lived for thousands of years in chaos and misery. The discussions, with well-known physicist David Bohm and psychiatrist David Shainberg, bring to light, as the chief cause, the fragmentation of the mind which is so deeply conditioned. The second section consists of Krishnamurti’s public talks, where he points out in that the mind is almost…
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₹225.00Quick ViewThis book consists of a series of dialogues on ancient Indian religious and philosophical themes. The ideas of causality, of a guru as a spiritual guide, of the spiritual path and of the goal, of the search for liberation, and of sadhana or the right means thereto are all dealt with in a contemporary idiom. Throughout, Krishnamurti’s concern is to lay bare the experiential component behind these terms and to lead his audience to the heart of…
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₹295.00Quick ViewDuring the Second World War (1939-45) Krishnamurti did not speak publicly in the United States but lived quietly in Ojai, California. People sought him out and came to dialogue with him on many issues of the times or on their own personal dilemmas. Their problems were universal human problems, and each made true his statement that ‘You are the World’. As Krishnamurti unwound the tight threads of their thinking and feeling, the core or source…