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“I Want to Know What Truth Is”:
Lessons Learnt from Krishnaji
Kiran Khalap/ 154

Kiran Khalap was inspired by Krishnamurti early in his life and
this led him to teach at the Rajghat Besant School in Varanasi.
He later joined the world of advertising where he led several
well-known agencies before eventually founding his own brand
consultancy firm, where he tried to bring lessons he learnt from
Krishnamurti’s teachings to his work.

…On a Colaba sidewalk shop, I spotted a book that said, Talks and Dialogues
by J. Krishnamurti. It had a striking black and white portrait photograph of
Krishnaji (as I later started referring to him in Benares) by Cecil Beaton, one
of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, and the back of the
book blurb said, “…leads you to clear-eyed consciousness without drugs”.
I read the book once, twice, thrice, and the scalpel-like words finally cut
through my addled brain. They cut off the mooring of thought and allowed
object-less awareness to surface. read more

On Sorrow
J Krishnamurti/ 163
We are concerned with the whole existence of man and whether a human
being can ever be free from his travail, his efforts, his anxieties, violence and
brutality, and whether there is an end to sorrow. Why have human beings,
throughout the ages, sustained and put up with suffering? Can there be an
ending to it all? read more