Saransh Baranwal

It was hard to comprehend initially, and in many places you ought to think, what are the ways to apply all these teachings in one's life. But then you search for exact answers and you don't find it. But Krishnamurti himself, very cautiously tells you to not find answers via his teachings or his book, but on your own. He doesn't believe in any authority, so he doesn't want the people reading his teachings to believe them as it is, but instead he wants them to explore on their own. Where he does help, is to make it a little easier for one to do so- by emphasizing on the fact that knowing yourself 'totally' can be a way. Knowing each and every movement of yours, every emotion, every habit, without any justification and condemnation, that is, just observing, can be a way to reach the truth! But in the end he states that, one who says that he knows silence or knows the truth, doesn't know it all. So, while doing all of that, you might never realise that whether you reached the truth/God or didn't. But that is the jist of his teachings. If there comes a realisation, then there will be satisfaction or some kind of pleasure or some kind of ego, which again corrupts one's mind. The whole agenda is to do this, without any end result to 'show off.'

An eye opener in many ways. The flow of passages was amazing and the use of English language was put to the best of it! Amazingly written and a must read for history buffs.