The Book Of Life : Daily Meditations with J Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti Foundation India (KFI) has published The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with J.Krishnamurti, a book of specially chosen quotations from over three decades of public talks, writings and discussions of J. Krishnamurti, one of the greatest religious teachers of all time.

The pandemic has affected all our lives, and for many this has triggered introspection. The impermanency of life on the outside is a reality that requires a fresh response. As we adjust to a new ‘normal’, there is a need for a deeper understanding of ourselves and how we respond to the crisis in a meaningful way. More than 50 years ago, J. Krishnamurti, pointed out the looming crisis facing humanity in a way that resonates with our modern age sensibility. Speaking to an audience four decades ago, he said: “The world is always close to catastrophe. But it seems to be closer now. Seeing this approaching catastrophe, most of us take shelter in idea. We think that this catastrophe, this crisis, can be solved by an ideology.”

For close to sixty years, Krishnamurti traveled the length and breadth of the world speaking to a wide spectrum of people as he unravelled, with great precision, the workings of the human mind with its desires, fears, anxieties, suffering, and the incessant pursuit of pleasure. In The Book of Life, he says: “The psychological protection of oneself—that is, the desire to be always certain—breeds fear. A mind that is seeking always to be certain is a dead mind, because there is no certainty in life, there is no permanency.”

The Book of Life is a finely tuned, unique compilation of quotations built around themes of daily living that any human being can relate to. Themes such as Relationship, Love, Desire, Fear, Learning, Authority, Sex, Feelings, Energy, Attention, Marriage, Passion, Truth, Reality, Time, Knowledge, God and Meditation. There are a total of 48 such themes with four themes explored each month. The easy-to-read design, where each page has one quote for one day, allows the reader to open any page and get illumination on a particular theme for that day.