Jiddu Krishnamurti
Eight Conversations
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Table Of Content
1st Conversation ...............................................................................................................3
2nd Conversation ..............................................................................................................6
3rd Conversation.............................................................................................................10
4th Conversation .............................................................................................................15
5th Conversation .............................................................................................................18
6th Conversation .............................................................................................................21
7th Conversation .............................................................................................................25
8th Conversation .............................................................................................................29
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1st Conversation
Questioner: I should like, suddenly, to find myself in a totally different world,
supremely intelligent, happy, with a great sense of love. I'd like to be on the other
bank of the river, not to have to struggle across, asking the experts the way. I
have wandered in many different parts of the world and looked at man's
endeavours in different fields of life. Nothing has attracted me except religion. I
would do anything to get to the other shore, to enter into a different dimension
and see everything as though for the first time with clear eyes. I feel very strongly
that there must be a sudden break through from all this tawdriness of life. There
must be!
Recently when I was in India I heard a temple bell ringing and it had a very
strange effect on me. I suddenly felt an extraordinary sensation of unity and
beauty such as I had never felt before. It happened so suddenly that I was r