Publications

Chosen by Parabola magazine as ‘one of the hundred best spiritual books of the century’. An excellent introduction to Krishnamurti’s teachings, for the young and the old. Consisting of Krishnamurti’s talks and discussions with students, teachers, and parents in India, this book has been translated into the major languages of the world. Here Krishnamurti states, in unmistakable terms, that the function of education is not different from the purpose of human life itself:

‘The function of education is to bring about a release of energy in the pursuit of goodness, truth, or God, which in turn makes the individual a true human being and therefore the right kind of citizen… As a river creates the banks which hold it, so the energy which seeks truth creates it’s own discipline without any form of imposition, and as the river finds the sea, so that energy finds it’s own freedom.

Translator – H.S. Raghavendra Rao

Price – ₹ 350/-

Leaving School Entering Life

Leaving School, Entering Life contains authentic reports of J. Krishnamurti’s talks and dialogues with students, held in Varanasi in January 1954. Fifteen of these talks took place at the Rajghat Besant School, which he had founded at the confluence of the Ganga and the Varuna, and three at the Banares Hindu University. During his annual visits to India, from the 1930s to the 1980s, Krishnamurti made it a point to spend a few weeks at the residential school and address the students, teachers, and parents and the public. He gave talks, answered questions, engaged his listeners in free-wheeling dialogues, or met people individually or in small groups. In all these, he shared with them his central vision that education should not be separated from life and that it must help the young and the old to understand not merely the outer world but also the inner world of human consciousness.

Translator – Dr. Mahabaleshwar Rao

Price – ₹ 210/-

What are you doing with your life?

Don’t you want to find out what you really love to do in life, instead of merely aiming at a career?
Are ambition and competition really necessary in order to live in this modern world?
What is your response to the problems of society, such as poverty, corruption, violence?
What is your relationship to your parents and teachers based on? …Submission? Rebellion? Understanding?
What do love and marriage mean to you?
How do you deal with your own psychological problems like boredom, jealousy, hurt, pleasure, fear, and sorrow?

J. Krishnamurti’s investigation of these questions constitutes a most original and authentic contribution to the educational thought of the twentieth century. In talking to students and holding discussions with them in different parts of the world, what he sought to impart was not a ‘philosophy’ of life but rather the art of observing directly one’s life. What are you Doing with your Life? brings together excerpts from Krishnamurti’s books, and is the first anthology of its kind that offer the young a systematic approach to his vision of education and life.

Translator – Dr. Mahabaleshwar Rao

Price – ₹ 200/-

Education and the Significance of life

So our problem is not so much the child, the boy or the girl, but the teacher, the educator, who needs educating much more than the pupil. And to educate the educator is far more difficult than to educate the child, because the educator is already set.’
During the year 1948, Krishnamurti held as usual a series of public talks in India, but in Bombay and Poona his talks were interspersed with meetings with teachers and parents. These special sessions took the form of Krishnamurti answering questions on education put to him by the audience. This book brings together the authentic reports of these meetings, besides the answers to two questions posed at the end of his public talks in New Delhi and Benares.
As Krishnamurti emphasizes in his opening remarks, his chief, if not sole, concern is that it is ‘the educator who needs educating’. By which he means that the true teacher is not one who merely imparts information; he must first be rooted in self-knowledge and committed to bringing about a radical change in himself as a human being.

Translator – H.S. Raghavendra Rao

Price – ₹ 90/-

English Book Title	Kannada Title	Price (INR)
The Book of Life	Anudina Chintana	400
Beyond Violence	Himseyannu Meeri	150
Commentaries on Living Vol. 1	Bhaligondu Bhasya V-1	320
Commentaries on Living Vol. 2	Bhaligondu Bhasya V-2	150
Commentaries on Living Vol. 3	Bhaligondu Bhasya V-3	180
First and Last Freedom	Modala hagu Koneya Bidugade	350
Meeting Life	Badukina Kadege	140
You Are the World	Neeve Loka, Nimmolage Loka	100
Love and Loneliness	Olavu Ontitana	150
Facing a World in Crisis	Sankastamayada Jagattinondige Mukhamukhi	150
The World Within	Olajagattu	180
Social Responsibility	Samajika Javabdari	110
What Are You Doing with Your Life?	Nimma Jeevana Nimma Kaiyallideye?	200
The World Teacher	Loka Shikshaka	250
Krishnamurti to Himself	Krishnamurti Aatma Sangata	130
Living Life and Entering Life	Mugid Shale Tereda Jeevana	210
Think on These Things	Ee Sangati Kuritu Aalocane Maadi	350
Education and the Significance	Shikshana Mattu Jeevana	90

Articles

The interview with Gurvinder (Neetu) Singh on ‘The Valley School’ is a chapter in the recently published book ‘Only the Sacred’ edited and introduced by Peggy Whalen-Levitt, an educationist based in North Carolina, USA.

Interview

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W(hole)istic Education:Thinking the Psychic Revolution in Question (Author: Lionel Claris)

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