oh yeah ..this was the title of the book by j. krishnamurti i read today ....i got it day bfr yesterday frm landmark {the forum mall ..koramangla ,bangalore }...i was in no mood to part wid the lil money i was left wid [after payin for the exorbitant house rent jus a few days ago ...{6000 buks for two months ...!}..and den gettin an airtel broadband connection again made me poorer by 2000 bucks ...]..atleast on books ...but den the question on the face of this book was too potent to b jus ignored ...i turned to the preface ...only to find that this was one of those books ....wich deserved to b spared even the last penny in my pocket ..........
wat was soo special in the preface that prompted me to purchase it ...??
well !!thr were questions ......and more questions ...!!!
-->don't u want to find wat u really love to do in life ,instead of merely aiming at a career?
-->are ambition and competition really necessary in order to live in dis modern world ?
-->wat is ur response to the problems of society , such as poverty ,corruption and violence ?
-->wat is ur relationship to ur parents and teachers based on ?submission ?rebellion ?...understanding ?
-->what do love and marriage mean to u ?
-->how do u deal wid ur own psychological problems like boredom ,jealousy ,hurt ,pleasure
fear and sorrow ?
-->wat r ur views on the purpose of human existence,on death ,meditation,religion and God ?
rnt these pertinent questions in every1 of us's lives ???
well atleast they r ..in mine ....
so it wasnt really a tuf decision to go for it or not ..:)
[btw i have always believed in ...
"if a book is worth readin it ...it is worth buyin it ..."]
Now that i knew my 40 min trip to my ps station {yea ...traffic in bangalore sux ....}was goin to b borin enuf and dat today i may have to spend most of my time thr also waitin for mr prabhakar{asstt manager BgSE ...bangalore stock exchange ..and my Practise school station supervisor....}...i decided to grab the copy ... while leavin for Bgse .......
Te introduction to the author was another revelation ..dis guy was born of indian parents but had his education in england ....blah blah blah ....shuld suffice to state that krishnamurty was conferred as one of the 5 saints of the 20 th century by the TIME magazine ...{along wid others like dalai lama and mother teresa ...}....and dat he went on to enlighten ppl all over the world wid his philosphy ....
hmm pretty gud read ..dis one mus b ..i thot...mebbe dis was the book i was lookin for all the time durin my desperate search for a philosphy book wich shall explain me the true meaning and purpose of life and existence ...over the past few years ....
the book starts wid a discussion of human mind and our inner self ....
actually the book is not a start -->finish piece of writing but rather a collection of krishnamurti's conversations wid students all over the world ...
he talks abt love,sex,relationships,pleasures,ambitions,fear,consciousness,pain ,sorrow ...worship ...GOD .....and wat not ...
soo....wats different here !!! ...than other phillosphy books ...and preachers ....???
yea ..dats whr the diff lies ....krihsna DOESNT PREACHES .......he rather takes u on the path of self discovery ...
he keeps on posing questions after questions ....and asks u to discover the answers ......URSELF!
there is no path,no authority ,no guru to follow .....he makes u believe U have he capacity in urself to find out what u r ,wat r u doing wid ur relationships and wid ur wrk.
its all abr experimenting on ur own....someone else's truth sounds only like opinion until u try it out for urself.....V must look thru the microscope of life oursleves ,or v ll b left wid the dust of words ..and not the actual perception of life .....
how true !!! isnt it ???
the crux of his teaching ..{really ?}..is .....U ..he helps u discover urself ..self knowledge is all he stresses all the time ...throughout the text ....
i liked it ???
hmm .....YES! ....a real nice read .
{warning : it shudnt b read like a novel .....but taken as a wrkbook ...}
lemme c ...whr does the application of his principles ..takes me on the road of self discovery ...!!
{for the time being ..i m veryyy much impressed !...}
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