Ug krishnamurti biography examples
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Ug krishnamurti son
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amurti: A Life
'I have no message for mankind.'
--U.G.
`Why a biography of me?' asked U.G. when I first expressed my desire to write the story of his life. 'Tell me, how would you go about writing the biography of a person who says he has no story to be told? If my life story is never told, the world would be none the worse for it. For those who delight in reading biographies my story would be disappointing indeed. If they are looking for something in my life to change their lives for the better, they haven't got a chance. You can fit my life neatly into that rhyme for children "Solomon Grundy". That, in a nutshell, is yours, mine and everybody's story. There's no more to it than that.'
`What are you, U.G.,' asked the eighty-four-year-old Swiss lady, Valentine de Kerven, ten years ago over lunch. She had been with U.G. for over twenty years. Most of us at the table stared blankly at her. Her question is the same question asked by all those who have come in contact with U.G. The friend who was instrumental in introducing U.G. to me was himself
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UG Krishnamurti: A Life
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Compact Krishnamurti: A Life
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Science and U.G.
Excerpts From
SCIENCE AND U.G.
AN EXPOSITION OF THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF U.G.'S PHILOSOPHY
By
Dr. O. S. Reddy
CONTENTS
- Introduction: My Encounter With a Man Called U.G.
- Ch. 4. The Influence of Environment
- Ch. 5. The Sensory System and Natural Rhythms
- Ch. U.G.'s Views and Their Scientific Basis Unfolded
- Ch. 10 -- i. The Uniqueness of Man
- iii. The Innate Intelligence of the Body
- v. Manifestation of Order and Disorder in Nature
- .. Matter-Energy
- vii. Our Weaknesses: Quest for God
- ix. The Genetic Degradation of Modern Society
- x. The Physics and Biology of Enlightenment
- xi. Thought as a Survival Phenomenon
- xii. The Myth of the Mind: Knowledge Redefined
- xiii. Religion
- xiv. The Conditioning of the Mind
- xv. By-products of Modern Civilization
- xvii. U.G.'s Views on the Future of Mankind
- xviii. Human Nature
- xix. Does Life Have a Meaning?
- xx. The Story and History of U.G.
INTRODUCTION
My Encounter With a Man Called U.G.
It so happened one day that I visited my nephew, K. Rajasekhar, at his residence. He is an old admirer of U.G. and is presently busy writing a detailed biography of U.G. In his house I saw a photograph of U.G. He looked different in it than any other man I had seen before. I cannot explain why I liked th