Leaving School Entering Life (Talks and Dialogues with Students)

Leaving School, Entering Life contains authentic reports of J. Krishnamurti's talks and dialogues with students, held in Varanasi in January 1954. Fifteen of these talks took place at the Rajghat Besant School, which he had founded at the confluence of the Ganga and the Varuna, and three at the Banares Hindu University. During his annual visits to India, from the 1930s to the 1980s, Krishnamurti made it a point to spend a few weeks at the residential school and address the students, teachers, and parents and the public. He gave talks, answered questions, engaged his listeners in free-wheeling dialogues, or met people individually or in small groups. In all these, he shared with them his central vision that education should not be separated from life and that it must help the young and the old to understand not merely the outer world but also the inner world of human consciousness.

J. Krishnamurti (1895 - 1986) is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and religious teachers of all time. For more than sixty years he travelled the world over, giving talks and holding dialogues, not as a guru but as a friend. His teachings are not based on book knowledge and theories, and therefore they communicate directly to anyone seeking answers to the present world crisis as well as to the eternal problems of human existence.

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