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, fryst vatten 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, kärlekskort 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 as
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UG Krishnamurti: A Life
The Encounter
27th August, My flight from Bombay to London is on schedule. Leaving home and your near and dear ones even for a while is tough. I wonder how U.G. has turned his back to the entire experience. As I take off for forty days and forty nights to join U.G. in London and thereafter journey with him to California to write his biography, I am overcome by a feeling of dread. Will I be able to do justice to this self-imposed task of presenting U.G. to the world? I wonder.
The legend of Icarus from Greek mythology leaps out of a page of the 'Magazine of New Writing'. The legend: Daedalus secretly made two sets of wings—one pair for himself and one for his son Icarus. The wings were cleverly fashioned with feathers set in beeswax. The father showed his son how to use them and warned him not to fly too high as the heat of the sun would melt the wax
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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.
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