“if you all knew what you have missed – that vast emptiness.”
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian spiritual figure, speaker, and writer. Adopted by members of the Theosophical Society as a child, Krishnamurti was raised to fill the mantle of the prophesied World Teacher, a role tasked with aiding humankind's spiritual evolution. In 1922, he began to suffer from painful, seizure-like mystical episodes that would produce a lasting change in his perception of real…
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culture · Spiritual speaker and writer (1895–1986) · philosopher · writer · also Jiddu Krishnamurti, J. Krishnamurti, Krishnamurti, J Krishnamurti, Jiddu Krishnamurthy, Alsion
Born 12 May 1895 · Died 17 February 1986 · Q179266
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2026· 11 entries
“death is the end of all you are afraid to lose: Your attachments, your memory, your disappeared friends, your prestige [...] All that is the content of your consciousness. Can you get rid of it right now?”
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“the possibility he holds out of an almost instantaneous psychological transformation in each one of us which will end sorrow and solve all our problems is so irresistible”
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“Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.”
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“[p]erhaps they will somewhat [get into touch with that energy] if they live the teachings. But nobody has done it. Nobody. And so that's that.”
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“You seem surprised that people do not understand you but I should be far more surprised if they did! After all, you are upsetting everything in which they have ever believed – knocking out their foundations and putting in its place a nebulous abstraction.”
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“If I was writing the life, I would start with the vacant mind,”
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“Observe the self in operation, learn about it, watch it, be aware of it. Do not try to destroy it, get rid of it or change it – just watch it, without any choice or distortion. Out of that watching and learning, the self disappears.”
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“his belief in the Masters and the hierarchy had undergone a total revolution.”
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“touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world”
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News18: Shaan Recalls Recording ‘Woh Ladki Hai Kahan’ With Kavita Krishnamurti As Dil Chahta Hai Turns 25
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1986· 1 entry
Died 1986-02-17.
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1985· 1 entry
Won United Nations Peace Medal (1985).
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1984· 1 entry
And 1985, Krishnamurti spoke to an invited audience at the United Nations in New York, under the auspices of the Pacem in Terris Society chapter at the United Nations
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1974· 1 entry
Krishnamurti was interviewed on PBS television in a series of 19 dialogues with Alan W
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1968· 1 entry
As an educational charitable trust, the Foundation exists to preserve and make available the teachings of J
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1963· 1 entry
“Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”
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1954· 1 entry
The First and Last Freedom was published, which was instrumental in broadening Krishnamurti's audience and exposing his ideas
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1948· 1 entry
Krishnamurti met Iyengar, who taught him Yoga practices every morning for the next three months, then on and off for twenty years
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1947· 3 entries
“Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.”
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Krishnamurti elaborated at length on the teachings, saying in one instance,
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Many prominent personalities came to meet him, including Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
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1935· 1 entry
Rom Landau asked him "How do you expect to help others
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1932· 1 entry
And it endured for about twenty-five years
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1929· 2 entries
When he rebuffed attempts by Leadbeater and Besant to continue with the Order of the Star
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Broke from the Theosophy movement and disbanded the Order of the Star in the East, a related movement which had been formed around him
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1928· 1 entry
In Andhra Pradesh, ten miles from Madanapalle, his birthplace
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1922· 2 entries
Krishnamurti and Nitya travelled from Sydney to California
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Began to suffer from painful, seizure-like mystical episodes that would produce a lasting change in his perception of reality
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1921· 1 entry
Krishnamurti fell in love with Helen Knothe, a 17-year-old American, whose family associated with the Theosophists
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1914· 1 entry
The brothers visited several other European countries, always accompanied by Theosophist chaperones
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1912· 1 entry
Sued Besant to annul the guardianship agreement
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1911· 1 entry
The Theosophical Society established the Order of the Star in the East (OSE) to prepare the world for the expected appearance of the World Teacher
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1904· 1 entry
In memoirs written when he was eighteen years old Krishnamurti described psychic experiences, such as seeing his sister, who had died in 1904, and his late mother.
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1903· 2 entries
In 1903 the family settled in Kadapa, where Krishnamurti had contracted malaria during a previous stay.
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The family settled in Kadapa, where Krishnamurti had contracted malaria during a previous stay
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1895· 1 entry
Born 1895-05-12.
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