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“I Want to Know What Truth Is”

“I don’t know.”
And so, I landed in Rajghat Besant School in Benares thirty
hours later, where the school Principal received answers similar to
what Dad had received.

“Where is your BSc certificate?”

“The results are not yet out.”

“Will you pass?”

“Yes.”

“Will you get a First Class?”

“I guess so.”

I stayed in Rajghat for four years, 1979 to 1983, and it changed my
life as much as reading Krishnaji’s Talks and Dialogues did.
Once there, I learnt about Krishnaji’s epic story—renunciation of
the World Teacher role, renunciation of wealth and land and titles
and becoming the one human being in history to have conversa-
tions with the maximum number of human beings over decades
(this being my interpretation).
The first ‘effect’ of Krishnaji’s teachings was a sense of no sepa-
ration—that the student and I were the same human beings. And
therefore, sharing was seamless. I shared every single thing I had
learnt in my twenty-one years of life—gymnastics, judo, yoga,
calligraphy, swimming, rock climbing, cycling, dumb charades,
film screening, general science, botany, English grammar…it was
a riot.
The second ‘effect’ was a total loss of ambition. That most insid-
ious four-letter word, ‘more’, vanished.
The third ‘effect’ was a disinterest in Krishnaji the person, even
though I ended up going on walks with him, meeting him at break-
fast, lunch and dinner in Chennai, Rajghat and Rishi Valley.

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