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Biology Of Enlightenment
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In this book we meet with the modern sage, U.G. Krishnamurti, and listen to his penetrating voice describing life and reality as it is. What is body and what is mind? Is there a soul? Is there a beyond, a God? What is enlightenment? Is there a life after death? Never before have these questions been tackled with such simplicity, candour and clarity. In these unpublished early conversations with friends (1967-71), U.G.discusses in detail his search for the truth and how he underwent radical biological changes in 1967. Preferring to call it the natural state over enlightenment, he insists that whatever transformation he has undergone is within the structure of the human body and not in the mind at all. It is the natural state of being that sages like the Buddha, Jesus and, in modern times, Sri Ramana, stepped into. And U.G.never tires of pointing out that 'this is the way you, stripped of the machinations of thought, are also functioning.'
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In this book we meet with the modern sage, U.G. Krishnamurti, and listen to his penetrating voice describing life and reality as it is. What is body and what is mind? Is there a soul? Is there a beyond, a God? What is enlightenment? Is there a life after death? Never before have these questions been tackled with such simplicity, candour and clarity. In these unpublished early conversations with friends (1967-71), U.G.discusses in detail his search for the truth and how he underwent radical biological changes in 1967. Preferring to call it the natural state over enlightenment, he insists that whatever transformation he has undergone is within the structure of the human body and not in the mind at all. It is the natural state of being that sages like the Buddha, Jesus and, in modern times, Sri Ramana, stepped into. And U.G.never tires of pointing out that 'this is the way you, stripped of the machinations of thought, are also functioning.'
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Mukunda Rao is the author of several insightful philosophical works including The Buddha, and several works of fiction. After taking voluntary retirement from a teaching job in a college in 2000, he now lives on a farm outside Bengaluru. He can be contacted at mukunda53@gmail.com. --This text refers to the paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Anxious to share this treasureReviewed in the United States on 14 February 2017
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One person commented that this is the best book on UG ever written. While I haven't read them all and therefore can't give a definitive affirmation to this claim, I have completed a few good ones . This book is in a class by itself. It told me everything I was aching to know about UG and couldn't find anywhere else.
Anxious to share this treasure, I was disappointed that I couldn't even get my husband to read a few pages or listen to more than five minutes of UG talking on a video. This surprised me because he is very interested in some of the themes touched on in this book. Also, like the author, he has an advanced degree in Western Literature and is an English Professor. He is also a lifelong Science Fiction fan, even teaching the occasional course using books that deal with subjects given historical basis and value in Rao's book. Themes such as Borg mind, the evolutionary potential of man, superheroes with superpowers, mutant life forms, half human/half alien presence as the basis for a new religion, the history and synthesis of world religions in Theosophical type movements, spiritual literature mirroring Rennaisance Alchemy's obsession with transformation of base material into gold....So how could he say, as he so unequivocally had after only five minutes of the best of UG, "he doesn't interest me"?
It really wasn't that hard to understand. I'd had a similar reaction to UG when first encountering him in my obsessive quest to find the next best spiritual teacher. Who was this man with the same name as the first of these teachers I'd discovered as a teenager (J. Krishnamurti)? Was he some relative taking up his mantle? Far from it! He seemed to be attacking JK and everything he represented. This was an angry, at times foul-mouthed, hater of all spirtual teachers. I immediately dismissed him as a charlatan. His main message that thought itself was materialistic and had its basis in our cells--and that there was no way out except to eradicate it on the microbiological level--sounded like Scientology to me. "Stay away!" screamed every fiber of my being--or should I say, every cell in my body?
But I couldn't. The man had a grounding effect on my untethered spiritual pursuits that calmed the anxieties that drove them. I had to satisfy my curiosity about why this was so and as I did the pieces began to add up and were consistent with a fierce honesty and self-reliance that I grew to admire. UG's temperament, even before his metamorphisis was that of an iconoclast and radical rebel against authority and every form of knowledge it represented. It was his skepticism and questioning the source of all knowledge that seemed to lead him to the natural state, a state he said only one in a billion could realize. If, however, as UG describes, words are vibrations that can produce energies in our bodies even when silently voiced, perhaps Rao's book can increase the odds a little.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ending It.Reviewed in Canada on 6 July 2015
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Stark, unrelenting, cuts to the core. Stop looking elsewhere. Just stop.
No room for pretence. It's all there in your cellular movement.
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Manas Dutta
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!Reviewed in India on 6 January 2016
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The Biology of Enlightenmen: Unpublished Conversations of U.G. Krishnamurti After He Came into the Natural State
Finally, a book that is worth its price. If you want to be freed from all limitations of life created by the beliefs imposed by society and culture, then this is the book you need to read. RIP UG.
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5.0 out of 5 stars very nice book.Reviewed in India on 8 September 2016
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very nice book...a different UG...videos of UG are displaying his very raging sage image and not the one of his early years after his coming to natural state. A must for one who wants to delve deeper into UG whom i call under ground or unidentified grounds.
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Michael R. Young
5.0 out of 5 stars An early transmission but a more recent publicaionReviewed in the United States on 21 March 2013
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This book was transcribed from early conversations following UG's "calamity." His calamity is how he described the biological mutation of every cell in his body resulting in his entire thought system being completely purged from his system. Following that he experienced no thought at all and only needed to speak if spoken to. This book goes into that and much more as those questioning him attempt to understand what can only be described as un-understandable within the contex of the egoic based self centered mind. According to UG there is only one question and one answer. To continue to question means that we did not truly hear the answer. If fact, all questions are the same question and all answers that do not put an end to all questions are not answers at all but just the on going process of asking the same question over and over again. In my mind, such questions are merely the on going reincarnation, if you will, of the same question until we eventually tire of asking and hear the one amd only answer that we have been avoiding all along.
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In this book we meet with the modern sage, U.G. Krishnamurti, and listen to his penetrating voice describing life and reality as it is. What is body and what is mind? Is there a soul? Is there a beyond, a God? What is enlightenment? Is there a life after death? Never before have these questions been tackled with such simplicity, candour and clarity. In these unpublished early conversations with friends (1967-71), U.G.discusses in detail his search for the truth and how he underwent radical biological changes in 1967. Preferring to call it the natural state over enlightenment, he insists that whatever transformation he has undergone is within the structure of the human body and not in the mind at all. It is the natural state of being that sages like the Buddha, Jesus and, in modern times, Sri Ramana, stepped into. And U.G.never tires of pointing out that 'this is the way you, stripped of the machinations of thought, are also functioning.'
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A must-read for all those who are seriously into inquiry. The videos of UG on youtube are highly misleading because they give a partial understanding of UG while this book gives the readers a vivid picture of UG
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A very detailed description about the way UG functioned. Some of the words of UG will hit you and will work on you. Only one thing I feel or would like to share or say is STOP just for a few moments STOP searching and see.... but don't assume something will happen. Just Stop!
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Simply started reading this. Like the books that have stayed with me over the years, this one too is meant for the long journey. Found a lot of echoes in this of my own life-experiences.
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