Krishnamurti and Nitya
J. Krishnamurti born in May 11 Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India
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War between
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George Melies opens studio for moving pictures
Bram Stoker writes Dracula
Germany occupies
Kiao-chow, China
Russia occupies Port Arthur
Italy defeated by Abyssinians
Dr. Annie Besant’s visit to Cardiff, Wales, 1924
J. Nityananda born, brother of Krishnamurti
Besant founds Central Hindu College
USA seizes Guam from Spain
Battleship Maine blown up
in Havana harbor
Spanish-American War begins
USA occupies Cuba
Emile Zola writes J’accuse in response to the Dreyfuss Case
Pierre and Marie Curie
discover radium
Lewis Carroll, author of
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, dies
Photographs taken
using artificial light
Philippines proclaim
independent government:
conflict with USA
Scott Joplin: “King of Ragtime”
writes Maple Leaf Rag
Leo Tolstoi writes
Resurrection
1st Peace Conference at
the Hague
The Challenge of Change film documents Krishnamurti’s life from the early theosophical days to his mid-80’s when he was still traveling, giving talks and holding dialogues.
In May of 1895 in a cramped house in Madanapalle, in the south of India, a child was born. The eighth child of an orthodox Telegu speaking Brahmin family, his mother Sanjeevama, and father Narayaniah named him Krishnamurti (the image or likeness of Krishna) after the Hindu god, Shri Krishna, who was considered the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu.
Krishnamurti’s brother Nityananda was born. He was to become very close to him. That same year the frail and sickly Krishnamurti contracted malaria and barely survived.
Mr. Warrington, the acting President of the Theosophical Society, kindly invited me to come to Adyar and to give some talks here. I am very glad to have accepted his invitation and I appreciate his friendliness, which I hope will continue, even though we may differ completely in our ideas and opinions.
I hope that you will all listen to my talks without prejudice, and will not think that I am trying to attack your society. I want to do quite another thing. I want to arouse the desire for true search, and this, I think, is all that a teacher can do. That is all I want to do. If I can awaken that desire in you, I have completed my task, for out of that desire comes intelligence, that intelligence which is free from any system and organized belief. This intelligence is beyond all thought of compromise and false adjustment. So during these talks, those of you who belong to various societies or groups will please bear in mind that I am very grateful to the Theosophical Society and its acting President for having asked me to come here to speak, and that I am not attacking the Theosophical Society. I am not interested in attacking. But I hold that while organizations for the social welfare of man are necessary, societies based on religious hopes and beliefs are pernicious. So though I may appear to speak harshly, please bear in mind that I am not attacking any particular society, but that I am against all these false organizations which, though they profess to help man, are in reality a great hindrance and are the means of constant exploitation.
Krishnamurti – Public Talk 1, Adyar, 29 December 1933
“At the moment of light, thought withers away, and the conscious effort to experience and the remembrance of it, is the world that has been. And the word is never the actual.
At that moment -which is not of time- the ultimate is the immediate, but the ultimate has no symbol, it is of no person, of no god.”
J. Krishnamurti born in May 11 Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India
Lumiere Bros.
1st Paris screening of moving pictures
Gillette invents safety razor
Marconi invents wireless radio
Oscar Wilde sent to Reading Gaol
Wurzberg:
Prof. Roentgen discovers X-rays
Frederick Douglass,
abolitionist, reformer, dies
Karl Marx – Das Kapital
posthumous publication
Art Nouveau style in vogue
Sigmund Freud:
Studien uber Hysterie
Louis Pasteur dies
In May of 1895 in a cramped house in Madanapalle, in the south of India, a child was born. The eighth child of an orthodox Telegu speaking Brahmin family, his mother Sanjeevama, and father Narayaniah named him Krishnamurti (the image or likeness of Krishna) after the Hindu god, Shri Krishna, who was considered the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu.
Beginning of
Klondike Gold Rush
Richard Strauss composes
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Puccini: La Boheme
Modern Olympic Games
inaugurated by Coubertin in Paris
Gold discovered in South Africa
Besant tours America, founds 23 new branches of Theosophical Society
War between
Greece and Ottoman Empire
George Melies opens studio for moving pictures
Bram Stoker writes Dracula
Germany occupies
Kiao-chow, China
Russia occupies Port Arthur
Italy defeated by Abyssinians
Dr. Annie Besant’s visit to Cardiff, Wales, 1924
Krishnamurti’s brother Nityananda was born. He was to become very close to him. That same year the frail and sickly Krishnamurti contracted malaria and barely survived.
J. Nityananda born, brother of Krishnamurti
Besant founds Central Hindu College
USA seizes Guam from Spain
Battleship Maine blown up
in Havana harbor
Spanish-American War begins
USA occupies Cuba
Emile Zola writes J’accuse in response to the Dreyfuss Case
Pierre and Marie Curie
discover radium
Lewis Carroll, author of
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, dies
Photographs taken
using artificial light
Philippines proclaim
independent government:
conflict with USA
Scott Joplin: “King of Ragtime”
writes Maple Leaf Rag
Leo Tolstoi writes
Resurrection
1st Peace Conference at
the Hague
Mr. Warrington, the acting President of the Theosophical Society, kindly invited me to come to Adyar and to give some talks here. I am very glad to have accepted his invitation and I appreciate his friendliness, which I hope will continue, even though we may differ completely in our ideas and opinions.
I hope that you will all listen to my talks without prejudice, and will not think that I am trying to attack your society. I want to do quite another thing. I want to arouse the desire for true search, and this, I think, is all that a teacher can do. That is all I want to do. If I can awaken that desire in you, I have completed my task, for out of that desire comes intelligence, that intelligence which is free from any system and organized belief. This intelligence is beyond all thought of compromise and false adjustment. So during these talks, those of you who belong to various societies or groups will please bear in mind that I am very grateful to the Theosophical Society and its acting President for having asked me to come here to speak, and that I am not attacking the Theosophical Society. I am not interested in attacking. But I hold that while organizations for the social welfare of man are necessary, societies based on religious hopes and beliefs are pernicious. So though I may appear to speak harshly, please bear in mind that I am not attacking any particular society, but that I am against all these false organizations which, though they profess to help man, are in reality a great hindrance and are the means of constant exploitation.
Krishnamurti – Public Talk 1, Adyar, 29 December 1933
The Challenge of Change film documents Krishnamurti’s life from the early theosophical days to his mid-80’s when he was still traveling, giving talks and holding dialogues.
“At the moment of light, thought withers away, and the conscious effort to experience and the remembrance of it, is the world that has been. And the word is never the actual.
At that moment -which is not of time- the ultimate is the immediate, but the ultimate has no symbol, it is of no person, of no god.”