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...like hell to catch up with what I thought of myself-if someone went six, I'd go twelve, you know? I had to move, not to get frustrated; and I was frustrated enough. In 1920 I went into everything you could imagine-Bahai, Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, vegetarianism ... well, that didn't last long. I have to eat meat." She studied art, acting and dance; she also took singing lessons ($50 a shot, at a time when a quarter bought a meal) from Metropolitan Opera Coach Estelle Liebling. The remnants of the drama and dance lessons can still...
...like listening to "a discourse of the Buddha." For two decades the ascetically slim, darkly handsome young mystic from India was virtually considered to be a new Messiah by members of the Order of the Star in the East, the society built around him. Then suddenly in 1929, Jiddu Krishnamurti dissolved the order and repudiated the very idea of followers. "Truth is a pathless land," he said. "And you cannot approach it by any religion, any sect. You must look within yourselves for the incorruptibility of the self. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free...
...past 42 years, Krishnamurti has traveled the world expounding his message in countless lectures, interviews and books. At 76, white-haired and still handsome, he remains insistent that freedom precludes a Krishnamurti "philosophy" or Krishnamurti "followers." Still, the followers persist. The dissolved sect has been replaced by even more substantial evidence of his influence: Krishnamurti foundations in India, England, the U.S. and Puerto Rico, Krishnamurti schools in England and India. The foundations sell thousands of his tapes, records and books a year. Harper & Row has published four fast-selling collections of Krishnamurti's thoughts in the past two years...
Psychological Crisis. Krishnamurti's lectures, like his books, are all variations on his central theme: the current world crisis is psychological-the basic problem is how to achieve the "right relationship" between human beings. The ultimate answer, says Krishnamurti, is to see things as they really are, unclouded by the deceptions of self-concern. To accomplish this, one must be "empty" of all preconceptions and all teachers, even religious ones: "Discard all theologies and all belief . . . The whole principle that someone else knows and you do not know, that the one who knows is going to teach you." Though...
...always so disdainful of authoritarian belief. As a poor Brahman in India, he was rigidly versed in orthodox Hindu observance. His father was not only a devout Brahman but an ardent Theosophist as well. When Krishnamurti was only 14 and already a budding mystic, he came to the attention of Annie Besant, onetime intimate of Shaw and then head of the Theosophical Society.* She adopted the young Indian and proclaimed him the incarnation, or avatar, of the "World Teacher," the divine spirit that in Hindu mythology periodically takes human form (as in Buddha) to lead men to truth. She sent...