Jiddu Krishna Murthy

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        Is Jiddu Krishnamurthy an Indian? No, but he still lives to be a proud son of a rich heritage. He was born in a Brahmin family in colonial India but grew up into a world teacher. He was a born speaker and writer, who loved to be a citizen of the world, rather than that of a nation. He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent his life on move around the world, speaking to large and small groups and interacting with individuals of all sorts. He was born on May 11 1885 and died on February 17 1986.

        His interest was centred on philosophy and spirituality. All his life, he pleaded for a psychological revolution focused on mind, meditation and human relationships. Krishnamurthy argued that there is no path to this transformation, no method for achieving it, no gurus or other spiritual authorities who can help. He pointed to the need for an ever-deepening awareness of one's own mind in which the limitations of the mind could drop away.

        Education had always been one of Krishnamurti's chief concerns. He believed that if a young person could learn to see his conditioning of race, nationality, religion, dogma, tradition, opinion etc., which inevitably leads to conflict, then he might become a fully intelligent human being for whom right action would follow. He proved that a prejudiced mind can never be free. He himself lived what he spoke. He has written many books including, ‘The First and Last Freedom’ and ‘The Only Revolution’. His ‘Notebook’ also stands out. During his life time, he established several schools in different parts of the world, where young people and adults could come together and explore this possibility further in actual daily living. According to Krishnamurthy those all are places where ‘students and teachers can flower inwardly.’ He said that Schools are not factories to churn out human beings as mechanical, technological instruments. He argued that jobs and careers are meant to help a human to flower as human beings, without fear, without confusion, with great integrity. He was concerned in upbringing  unfragmented human beings. He wanted the schools to be "real centres of understanding, of comprehension of life. Such places are necessary. That is why we have these schools".

        Though he had settled in Ojai, California, where he also died, India was blessed to have his talk a month before he passed away. His last public talk in Madras was the last in the series for India. Today his supportersespecially in India, Great Britain and the United States, oversee several independent schools based on his views on education. They continue to transcribe and distribute his thousands of talks, group and individual discussions, and writings by use of a variety of media formats and languages. There was a time when Jiddu Krishnamurthy was the final word for Indian Spiritual revelutionists.