A Vision of Life
Krishnamurti speaks in Tiruchi, Rajahmundry, and Madras [Chennai], India; Trieste, Italy; Eerde, Holland; in the US in New York, Boston, Santa Barbara, Ojai, Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, Oakland, Eddington, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia, Strasbourg, Austria; Geneva and Montreux, Switzerland
His life is threatened in Bucharest by angry Catholic students
Experience and Conduct, The Purpose of Education and Pathless Reality are published
The Great Depression
30% unemployment in U.S.
Chrysler Building built, New York
Noel Coward: “Private Lives”
Grant Wood: “American Gothic”
Frank Wittle patents jet engine
Weekly movie ticket sales
in USA $100,000
Gandhi leads revolt in India
Japan attacks Shanghai
Flash bulb invented
Last gatherings at Eerde are held; castle returned to van Pallandt, talks given at Ommen, the Hague, Holland; London, England; Edinburgh, Scotland; Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Germany; and Vienna, Austria
Manchuria invaded by Japan
Empire State Building completed
King Alfonzo
leaves Spanish throne
Rockefeller Center completed in
New York
Salvador Dali:
“The Persistence of Memory”
Art Deco style popular
Cyclotron invented
Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth
Charlie Chaplin: “City Lights”
Krishnamurti returns to California and speaks every Sunday in the Oak Grove, Ojai
In the US talks are given in Hollywood, Portland, Seattle, Auburndale, St. Paul, Eddington, Rochester, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, San Antonio, Texas, Birmingham, Atlanta, Massachusetts and New York; in Calgary, Montreal, Westmount, Victoria, Vancouver, and Toronto, Canada; and Madras [Chennai], India to say goodbye to Annie Besant, who had lost her memory
“Brother Can You Spare a Dime?”
Bonus March
Lindbergh baby kidnapped
Ibn Saud becomes King
of Saudi Arabia
Roosevelt landslide: New Deal
Famines in USSR, 5 million die
Aldous Huxley writes
Brave New World
Jean Cocteau films
“The Blood of a Poet”
Henry Miller writes
Tropic of Cancer
Doolittle seizes speed record
Eamon deValera:
President of Ireland
Amehia Earhart flies solo
across Atlantic
Annie Besant dies
Krishnamurti’s “mature teachings” begin
Speaks in Madras [Chennai], Ahmedabad, Karachi, [Pakistan] Lahore, [Pakistan], Allahabad, Indore, Sangli, Bangalore, Benares [Varanasi], India; Kastri, Athens, Greece; Stresa, Alpino, Italy; Ommen, Holland; Oslo, Norway, Frognerseteren, Norway
Reichstag Fire – Nazis burn books
Hitler becomes German chancellor
Prohibition repealed in USA
Germany: ‘degenerate’ art
suppressed
Louis Comfort Tiffany dies
Germany withdraws from
League of Nations
Film: “King Kong” released
Mae West: “She Done Him Wrong”
Mussolini invades Abyssinia
Dachau established
Japan leaves League of Nations
Hoover Dam built
Philo Farnsworth invents
electronic television
A Vision of Life and Tradition Which Has Lost Its Soul are published
George Bernard Shaw found it scandalous that Krishnamurti was not allowed to speak on the radio “because he is anti-religious.” Shaw said “He is the most beautiful human being I have ever seen”
Talks in Madras [Chennai], Ernakulam, India; Colombo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka], Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Australia, Auckland, New Zealand, Ojai, California
C.W. Leadbeater dies
Oswald Mosley addresses
fascist meetings in Britain
Dillinger slain in Chicago
Swing: Benny Goodman,
Glenn Miller, Dorsey Bros.
“Take the A Train”
Churchill warns Parliament
of German airpower
Marie Curie dies
USA: the Dust Bowl
Cole Porter: “Anything Goes”
Dionne quintuplets born
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert:
“It Happened One Night”
King of Yugoslavia assassinated
Dollfuss assassinated in Austria
Sergei Kirov shot:
Stalin begins purges
Mao begins “Long March”
Krishnamurti reading a version of Truth is a Pathless Land – Ojai, 1930
During travels to India, Europe, and America Krishnamurti felt growing antagonism toward his rebellion against all forms and rules. He wrote:
“I was in revolt against Theosophists with all their jargon, their theories, their meetings and their explanations of life.… I questioned everything because I wanted to find out for myself.” He felt ill and weak, newspapers spoke of a widening rift between him and Dr. Besant. In despair he said: “There have been many thousands of people at these Camps, and what could they not do in the world if they all understood? They could change the face of the world tomorrow.”
Interview
Krishnamurti
“When you are as nothing, you are all things.”
London, March 9, 1931
Annie Besant died in September of 1933. The great love for the woman he called Amma – Mother, never left him. Despite the pain he caused by his disavowal of the Order of the Star and the Theosophical Society she, too, was constant in her love and support.
Newsreel of Krishnamurti in Sydney, 1934
“So you want to know now what K thinks of the World-Teacher? I really don’t know. He has never said: “Who am I.” Is this question relevant at all? What is relevant are the teachings. Who the teacher is is not relevant. But to investigate who the teacher is we have to find out if you can grasp the mind of the teacher. Personally I feel it’s something so immense that the brain saying I am going to find out, can’t find out. But there is something extraordinary which happens, which shows, which occurs, which gives hints and opens the door. And after that I don’t want even to open the door to say what is all this. No, I don’t think the brain can understand it.”
Krishnamurti reading a version of Truth is a Pathless Land – Ojai, 1930
Krishnamurti speaks in Tiruchi, Rajahmundry, and Madras [Chennai], India; Trieste, Italy; Eerde, Holland; in the US in New York, Boston, Santa Barbara, Ojai, Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, Oakland, Eddington, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia, Strasbourg, Austria; Geneva and Montreux, Switzerland
His life is threatened in Bucharest by angry Catholic students
Experience and Conduct, The Purpose of Education and Pathless Reality are published
The Great Depression
30% unemployment in U.S.
Chrysler Building built, New York
Noel Coward: “Private Lives”
Grant Wood: “American Gothic”
Frank Wittle patents jet engine
Weekly movie ticket sales
in USA $100,000
Gandhi leads revolt in India
Japan attacks Shanghai
Flash bulb invented
During travels to India, Europe, and America Krishnamurti felt growing antagonism toward his rebellion against all forms and rules. He wrote:
“I was in revolt against Theosophists with all their jargon, their theories, their meetings and their explanations of life.… I questioned everything because I wanted to find out for myself.” He felt ill and weak, newspapers spoke of a widening rift between him and Dr. Besant. In despair he said: “There have been many thousands of people at these Camps, and what could they not do in the world if they all understood? They could change the face of the world tomorrow.”
Interview
Krishnamurti
Last gatherings at Eerde are held; castle returned to van Pallandt, talks given at Ommen, the Hague, Holland; London, England; Edinburgh, Scotland; Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Germany; and Vienna, Austria
Manchuria invaded by Japan
Empire State Building completed
King Alfonzo
leaves Spanish throne
Rockefeller Center completed in
New York
Salvador Dali:
“The Persistence of Memory”
Art Deco style popular
Cyclotron invented
Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth
Charlie Chaplin: “City Lights”
“When you are as nothing, you are all things.”
London, March 9, 1931
Krishnamurti returns to California and speaks every Sunday in the Oak Grove, Ojai
In the US talks are given in Hollywood, Portland, Seattle, Auburndale, St. Paul, Eddington, Rochester, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, San Antonio, Texas, Birmingham, Atlanta, Massachusetts and New York; in Calgary, Montreal, Westmount, Victoria, Vancouver, and Toronto, Canada; and Madras [Chennai], India to say goodbye to Annie Besant, who had lost her memory
“Brother Can You Spare a Dime?”
Bonus March
Lindbergh baby kidnapped
Ibn Saud becomes King
of Saudi Arabia
Roosevelt landslide: New Deal
Famines in USSR, 5 million die
Aldous Huxley writes
Brave New World
Jean Cocteau films
“The Blood of a Poet”
Henry Miller writes
Tropic of Cancer
Doolittle seizes speed record
Eamon deValera:
President of Ireland
Amehia Earhart flies solo
across Atlantic
Annie Besant dies
Krishnamurti’s “mature teachings” begin
Speaks in Madras [Chennai], Ahmedabad, Karachi, [Pakistan] Lahore, [Pakistan], Allahabad, Indore, Sangli, Bangalore, Benares [Varanasi], India; Kastri, Athens, Greece; Stresa, Alpino, Italy; Ommen, Holland; Oslo, Norway, Frognerseteren, Norway
Reichstag Fire – Nazis burn books
Hitler becomes German chancellor
Prohibition repealed in USA
Germany: ‘degenerate’ art
suppressed
Louis Comfort Tiffany dies
Germany withdraws from
League of Nations
Film: “King Kong” released
Mae West: “She Done Him Wrong”
Mussolini invades Abyssinia
Dachau established
Japan leaves League of Nations
Hoover Dam built
Philo Farnsworth invents
electronic television
Annie Besant died in September of 1933. The great love for the woman he called Amma – Mother, never left him. Despite the pain he caused by his disavowal of the Order of the Star and the Theosophical Society she, too, was constant in her love and support.
Newsreel of Krishnamurti in Sydney, 1934
A Vision of Life and Tradition Which Has Lost Its Soul are published
George Bernard Shaw found it scandalous that Krishnamurti was not allowed to speak on the radio “because he is anti-religious.” Shaw said “He is the most beautiful human being I have ever seen”
Talks in Madras [Chennai], Ernakulam, India; Colombo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka], Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Australia, Auckland, New Zealand, Ojai, California
C.W. Leadbeater dies
Oswald Mosley addresses
fascist meetings in Britain
Dillinger slain in Chicago
Swing: Benny Goodman,
Glenn Miller, Dorsey Bros.
“Take the A Train”
Churchill warns Parliament
of German airpower
Marie Curie dies
USA: the Dust Bowl
Cole Porter: “Anything Goes”
Dionne quintuplets born
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert:
“It Happened One Night”
King of Yugoslavia assassinated
Dollfuss assassinated in Austria
Sergei Kirov shot:
Stalin begins purges
Mao begins “Long March”
“So you want to know now what K thinks of the World-Teacher? I really don’t know. He has never said: “Who am I.” Is this question relevant at all? What is relevant are the teachings. Who the teacher is is not relevant. But to investigate who the teacher is we have to find out if you can grasp the mind of the teacher. Personally I feel it’s something so immense that the brain saying I am going to find out, can’t find out. But there is something extraordinary which happens, which shows, which occurs, which gives hints and opens the door. And after that I don’t want even to open the door to say what is all this. No, I don’t think the brain can understand it.”