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The Penguin U.G. Krishnamurti Reader Kindle Edition
by Mukunda Rao (Author, Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody.' Thus spoke U.G. Krishnamurti in his uniquely iconoclastic and subversive way, distancing himself from gurus, spiritual 'advisers', mystics, sages, 'enlightened' philosophers et al. UG's only advice was that people should throw away their crutches and free themselves from the 'stranglehold' of cultural conditioning. Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti was born on 9 July 1918 in Masulipatnam, a coastal town in Andhra Pradesh. He died on 22 March 2007 at the age of eighty-nine in Vallecrosia, Italy, at the villa of a friend. The effect that he had, and will continue to have, on legions of his admirers is difficult to put into words. With his flowing silvery hair, deep-set eyes and elongated Buddha-like ears, he was an explosive yet cleansing presence and has been variously described as 'a wild flower of the earth', 'a bird in constant flight', an 'anti-guru' and a 'cosmic Naxalite'. UG gave no lectures or discourses and had no organization or fixed address, but he travelled all over the world to meet people who flocked to listen to his 'anti-teaching'. His language was always uncompromisingly simple and unadorned, his conversational style informal, intimate, blasphemous and invigorating. This reader, edited by long-time friend and admirer Mukunda Rao, is a compilation of UG's freewheeling and radical utterances and ideas. UG unceasingly questioned and demolished the very foundations of human thought but, as Rao says, in the cathartic laughter or the silence after UG had spoken, there was a profound sense of freedom from illusory goals and 'the tyranny of knowledge, beauty, goodness, truth and God'
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Mukunda Rao is the author of six books of fiction, two plays: Mahatma - Khuda ka Hijra (1988 and 2009) and Baba Saheb Ambedkar (2008 and 2014), staged in different parts of Karnataka and much appreciated, and six insightful philosophical works, among which The Biology of Enlightenment is a much-read classic that has become a cult book amongst spiritual aspirants. After his retirement in 2010 from teaching service in a college, he lives with his wife on a farm outside Bengaluru. is the author of six books of fiction, two plays: Mahatma - Khuda ka Hijra (1988 and 2009) and Baba Saheb Ambedkar (2008 and 2014), staged in different parts of Karnataka and much appreciated, and six insightful philosophical works, among which The Biology of Enlightenment is a much-read classic that has become a cult book amongst spiritual aspirants. After his retirement in 2010 from teaching service in a college, he lives with his wife on a farm outside Bengaluru. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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ASIN : B06XXJFWX4
Publisher : Penguin (11 July 2007)
Language : English
File size : 1679 KB
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Print length : 271 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 0143101021Customer Reviews:
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Chelseapoet
5.0 out of 5 stars EssentialReviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 August 2018
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One of the two best books on nonduality I have ever read. The other is Nothing Being Everything by Tony Parsons. They are very different. This is hard-hitting, kinda sarcastic and amusing in places, whereas the latter is more accessible and plain.
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C & S
5.0 out of 5 stars InterestingReviewed in the United States on 12 November 2015
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I read this every day when I wake up with my coffee. I haven't read it all yet but what I have read so far is definitely causing me to rethink things quite a bit. What's ironic is that U.G himself would probably laugh at the idea of people reading a book of his recorded words.
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rammohan menon
5.0 out of 5 stars Five StarsReviewed in India on 27 January 2016
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Very good summary of his words
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S. Serge
5.0 out of 5 stars A (non-)master anthology!Reviewed in France on 20 September 2014
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Excellent anthology for my taste, quite voluminous, which gives an extensive and structured view of the "position" of UG Krishnamurti in all its aspects, largely avoiding repetitions and other "accidents" inevitable in multiple accumulated spontaneous verbal exchanges. If there only has to be one, this is THE book I recommend for tackling UG. For the rest, it's still UG: a great master swordsman, so much so that he is on the verge of swordsmanship. the sword itself... But it's also "heavy" on fundamental issues (we never believe him to the core when he says that nothing is possible, and he himself accepts when- even to speak...) A book obviously highly recommended for the "weary traveler".
Note: for the most part the author is indeed UG Krishnamurti, and not Mukunda Rao, especially since these texts are essentially, if not entirely, extracted from previous books, compiled by others, where UG is given as author. Mukunda Rao acted as author of the introduction and as compiler of the anthology (which supposes choices and cuts, organization by themes, etc.; not insignificant work in itself, however.)
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Manas Dutta
4.0 out of 5 stars UG's philosophy of lifeReviewed in India on 6 January 2016
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The Penguin U.G. Krishnamurti Reader Read UG and his thoughts on life by reading this book.
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