On God

On God

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Book Specification

Item Code: NAC775
Author: J Krishnamurti
Publisher: Krishnamuriti Foundation India
Language: English
Edition: 2007
ISBN: 8187326107
Pages: 158
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.5 Inch X 5.5 Inch
Weight 240 gm

Book Description

Back of the Book

On God is one of a series of theme books put together from the talks and writings of J. Krishnamurti.

The book contemplates our search for the sacred. ‘Sometimes you think life is mechanical, and at other times when there is sorrow and confusion, you revert to faith, looking to a supreme being for guidance and help.’ Krishnamurti explores fully the futility of seeking knowledge of the ‘unknowable’ and shows that it is only when we have ceased seeking with our intellects that we may be ‘radically free’ to experience Reality, Truth, or bliss. He presents the ‘religious mind’ as one that directly perceives the sacred rather than adhering to religious dogma.

Foreword

JIODU KRISHNAMURTI was born in India in 1895 and, at the age of thirteen, taken up by the Theosophical Society, which considered him to be the vehicle for the ‘world teacher’ whose advent it had been proclaiming. Krishnamurti was soon to emerge as a powerful, uncompromising, and unclassifiable teacher, whose talks and writings were not linked to any specific religion and were neither of the East nor the West but for the whole world. Firmly repudiating the messianic image, in 1929 he dramatically dissolved the large and monied organization that had been built around him and declared truth to be ‘a pathless land’, which could not be approached by any formalized religion, philosophy, or sect.

For the rest of his life he insistently rejected the gum status that others tried to foist upon him. He continued to attract large audiences throughout the world but claimed no authority, wanted no disciples, and spoke always as one individual to another. At the core of his teaching was the realization that fundamental changes in society can be brought about only by a transformation of individual consciousness. The need for self-knowledge and an understanding of the restrictive, separative influences of religious and nationalistic conditionings, was constantly stressed. Krishnamurti pointed always to the urgent need for openness, for that ‘vast space in the brain in which there is unimaginable energy’. This seems to have been the wellspring of his own creativity and the key to his catalytic impact on such a wide variety of people.

He continued to speak all over the world until he died in 1986 at the age of ninety. His talks and dialogues, journals and letters have been collected into more than sixty books. From that vast body of teachings this series of theme books has been compiled. Each book focuses on an issue that has particular relevance to and urgency in our daily lives.

Contents

Foreword
Bombay, 6 January 1960 1
Eddington, Pennsylvania, 12 June 1936 3
From Talks in Europe 1967, London, 30 September 1967 5
Seattle, 16 July 1950 8
From Talks in Europe 1967, Paris, 30 April 1967 11
From the First and Last Freedom, Chapter 28 20
From Life Ahead, Chapter 4 23
From Life Ahead, Chapter 7, with Young People 25
From Commentaries on Living First Series, Chapter 18 29
Bombay, 3 March 1965 32
Bangalore, 4 July 1948 43
Bombay, 8 February 1955 49
Bombay, 27 February 1955 54
Bombay, 24 December 1958 65
Bombay, 8 March 1961 72
London, 23 October 1949 76
Madras, 29 January 1964 86
Madras, 15 December 1974 98
From Krishnamurti’s Notebook 103
New Delhi, 31 October 1956 110
Ojai, 5 July 1953 112
Ojai, 21 August 1955 Talk 116
Ojai 21 August 1955 Questions 121
Saanen, 2 August 1964 128
Saanen, 1 August 1965 137
From the Ending of Time, 2 April 1980 143
From Krishnamurti’s Notebook 154
Sources and Acknowledgements 157

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