U.G. Krishnamurti a life

U.G. Krishnamurti a life – Mahesh Bhatt

This is the definitive biography of one of India’s most enigmatic thinkers. Uppaluri Gopala Krishna-murti claims he has no message for mankind, no answers to fundamental questions, that there is no mind, no truth and no enlightenment to be had and that thought by its very nature is fascist. He is the anti-guru who offers no hope or peace but ironically, has followers the world over. In this book Mahesh Bhatt, the film maker, tells the story of U.G.’s unusual childhood, his early rejection of family ties and with it the spiritual bonds of his orthodox Brahmin upbringing, his disillusionment with the Theosophical Society, his controversial run-ins with his namesake, J. Krishnamurti, his broken marriage, his years in London when he was alone and penniless, his relation-ship with the remarkable Valentine de Kerven, who created a home for him in Switzerland, and his experience of the rarest of all transformations — the death and rebirth of an ordinary human being. The latter part of the book contains informal conversations with U.G, held over fourteen years, wherein U.G. speaks of the futility of belief-structures and his revolutionary views on ‘enlightenment’