this dog barking: the strange story of u.g. krishnamurti pdf

He spent seven summers in the Himalayas with Swami Sivananda studying yoga and practising meditation. As part of this endeavour, he searched for a person who was an embodiment of such 'realization'. Wanting to achieve that state, he had also resolved to prove that if there were people who have thus 'realized' themselves, they could not be hypocritical. To that end, between the ages of 14 and 21, he undertook a variety of spiritual exercises, determined to find out whether moksha was possible. reportedly practised various austerities and apparently sought moksha or spiritual enlightenment. South Indian actress Gautami is his very close relative.ĭuring the same period of his life, U.G. also became a member of the Theosophical Society during his teenage years and mentions having 'inherited' his association with the Theosophical Society from his grandfather. His mother died seven days after he was born, and he was brought up by his maternal grandfather, a wealthy Brahmin lawyer, who was also involved in the Theosophical Society.

was born on 9 July 1918 in Machilipatnam, a town in coastal Andhra Pradesh, India, and raised in the nearby town of Gudivada. He was unrelated to his contemporary Jiddu Krishnamurti, although the two men had a number of meetings because of their association with the Theosophical Society. Hence he explained his assertions were experiential and not speculative – 'Tell them that there is nothing to understand.'

He rejected the very basis of thought and in doing so negated all systems of thought and knowledge. Because of this, he discouraged people from pursuing the “natural state” as a spiritual goal. He emphasized that this transformation back to “the natural state” is a rare, acausal, biological occurrence with no religious context. experienced a devastating biological transformation on his 49th birthday, an event he refers to as “the calamity”.

Having pursued a religious path in his youth and eventually rejecting it, U.G. Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (9 July 1918 – 22 March 2007) was an Indian speaker who questioned the state of spiritual enlightenment. Machilipatnam, Madras Presidency, British India

This dog barking: the strange story of u.g. krishnamurti pdf