The Teachings Mature
Eight-month tour of South America; speaks in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Mexico
Catholic priest publishes pamphlet Contra Krishnamurti
Men bring tear gas bombs to break up talks
Social Security Act
Federico Garcia Lorca
Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias
John L. Lewis founds CIO
(Congress of Industrial Organizations)
Rumba becomes popular
Italy invades Ethiopia
Persia changes its name to “Iran”
Shirley Temple at age seven:
“Curly Top”
Marx Bros: “A Night at the Opera”
Howard Hughes
slashes speed record
Alcoholics Anonymous founded
in New York
Religion, which is an organized form of stupidity, has become your destroyer. It has become an instrument of power, of vested interest, of exploitation. You as individuals must awaken to this structure or opposition to intelligence, which is the result of your own fears, desires, cravings and secret pursuits.
Krishnamurti’s 1st Public Talk in Buenos Aires, 1935
Krishnamurti returns to California, becomes friends with poet Robinson Jeffers – opening lines of poem Credo presumably refers to Krishnamurti
Author Rom Landau does interview for his book God is My Adventure
Talks are given in New York City, Eddington, Pennsylvania; Ommen, Holland; and Madras [Chennai], India
Germany, Italy & Japan form axis
Spanish Civil War begins
Stalin’s purges: the great terror
Federico Garcia Lorca dies
Berlin Olympic Games:
Jesse Owens wins four gold medals
George Gershwin: “Porgy & Bess”
Dale Carnegie: How to Win
Friends and Influence People
Leni Riefenstahl film
“Berlin Olympic Games”
Astaire and Rogers: “Top Hat”
King Edward VIII abdicates
Roosevelt reelected in landslide
Chiang Kai-shek declares war
on Japan
Last Ommen Camp
During WWII the Ommen Camp became a German concentration camp and was never used again by Krishnamurti
Visits Rome, public meetings banned by Mussolini
Meets Vanda Scaravelli, friend of musicians Toscanini, Schnabel, Horowitz
Sino-Japanese War
George VI crowned King of England
Picasso: “Guernica”
John Steinbeck writes
Of Mice and Men
Joe Lewis wins heavyweight title
Eleanor Roosevelt:
“Housewives Entitled to Salaries”
Rockefeller dies
Disney: “Snow White”
first feature animated film
Amelia Earhart disappeares during
Pacific flight
Partition of Palestine
Hindenburg explodes
Japanese take Peking, Shanghai,
Nanking and Hangehow
1930s were known as “the Hollywood years”
British authors Gerald Heard and Aldous Huxley meet Krishnamurti
Talks held in Bombay [Mumbai], Karachi, Lahore, [Pakistan], New Delhi, Benares [Varanasi], India
Kristal Nacht:
beginning of Holocaust
The British pledge aid if Czechs
are attacked
Nazis invade Austria: “Anschluss”
Forty-hour work week established
Chamberlain meets Hitler at
Berchtesgarten
Alan Watts & Laura Huxley Talk About Krishnamurti
Extensive speaking; Benares [Varanasi], Nagpur, Calcutta [Kolkata], Vizag, Madras [Chennai], Rishi Valley, Madanapalle, Calicut, Tiruchi, India; Colombo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]; Adelaide, Newport, Melbourne, Australia; Auckland, Wellington, New Zealand
Britain and France declare war
on Germany
World War II begins: U.S. neutral
Germany and USSR sign
Nonaggression Pact
Germany attacks
Poland and Finland
General Franco captures Madrid
Spanish Civil War ends
Film “Gone With the Wind”
highest grossing film
James Joyce writes
Finnegans Wake
Steinbeck writes
The Grapes of Wrath
Sigmund Freud dies
Women & children evacuated
from London
Germans enter Prague
Einstein writes Roosevelt letter
warning about nuclear bomb
Krishnamurti – Latin America Tour, 1935
Sunday Talks
Oak Grove, Ojai, California
“As long as the spirit of nationalism exists, the spirit of class distinction, of particularity, and possessiveness, there must be war. You cannot prevent it. If you are really facing problem of war, as you should be now, you will have to take a definite action, a definite, positive action; and by your action you will help to awaken intelligence, which is only preventive of war. But to do that, you must free yourself of this disease of ‘my God, my country, my family, my house.’”
Collected Works, Volume 1, 1933-1934
“…the most impressive thing I have listened to. It was like listening to a discourse of the Buddha – such power, such intrinsic authority… ”
Aldous Huxley on Krishnamurti
“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.”
Eight-month tour of South America; speaks in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Mexico
Catholic priest publishes pamphlet Contra Krishnamurti
Men bring tear gas bombs to break up talks
Social Security Act
Federico Garcia Lorca
Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias
John L. Lewis founds CIO
(Congress of Industrial Organizations)
Rumba becomes popular
Italy invades Ethiopia
Persia changes its name to “Iran”
Shirley Temple at age seven:
“Curly Top”
Marx Bros: “A Night at the Opera”
Howard Hughes
slashes speed record
Alcoholics Anonymous founded
in New York
Religion, which is an organized form of stupidity, has become your destroyer. It has become an instrument of power, of vested interest, of exploitation. You as individuals must awaken to this structure or opposition to intelligence, which is the result of your own fears, desires, cravings and secret pursuits.
Krishnamurti’s 1st Public Talk in Buenos Aires, 1935
Krishnamurti – Latin America Tour, 1935
Sunday Talks
Oak Grove, Ojai, California
Krishnamurti returns to California, becomes friends with poet Robinson Jeffers – opening lines of poem Credo presumably refers to Krishnamurti
Author Rom Landau does interview for his book God is My Adventure
Talks are given in New York City, Eddington, Pennsylvania; Ommen, Holland; and Madras [Chennai], India
Germany, Italy & Japan form axis
Spanish Civil War begins
Stalin’s purges: the great terror
Federico Garcia Lorca dies
Berlin Olympic Games:
Jesse Owens wins four gold medals
George Gershwin: “Porgy & Bess”
Dale Carnegie: How to Win
Friends and Influence People
Leni Riefenstahl film
“Berlin Olympic Games”
Astaire and Rogers: “Top Hat”
King Edward VIII abdicates
Roosevelt reelected in landslide
Chiang Kai-shek declares war
on Japan
“As long as the spirit of nationalism exists, the spirit of class distinction, of particularity, and possessiveness, there must be war. You cannot prevent it. If you are really facing problem of war, as you should be now, you will have to take a definite action, a definite, positive action; and by your action you will help to awaken intelligence, which is only preventive of war. But to do that, you must free yourself of this disease of ‘my God, my country, my family, my house.’”
Collected Works, Volume 1, 1933-1934
Last Ommen Camp
During WWII the Ommen Camp became a German concentration camp and was never used again by Krishnamurti
Visits Rome, public meetings banned by Mussolini
Meets Vanda Scaravelli, friend of musicians Toscanini, Schnabel, Horowitz
Sino-Japanese War
George VI crowned King of England
Picasso: “Guernica”
John Steinbeck writes
Of Mice and Men
Joe Lewis wins heavyweight title
Eleanor Roosevelt:
“Housewives Entitled to Salaries”
Rockefeller dies
Disney: “Snow White”
first feature animated film
Amelia Earhart disappeares during
Pacific flight
Partition of Palestine
Hindenburg explodes
Japanese take Peking, Shanghai,
Nanking and Hangehow
“…the most impressive thing I have listened to. It was like listening to a discourse of the Buddha – such power, such intrinsic authority… ”
Aldous Huxley on Krishnamurti
1930s were known as “the Hollywood years”
British authors Gerald Heard and Aldous Huxley meet Krishnamurti
Talks held in Bombay [Mumbai], Karachi, Lahore, [Pakistan], New Delhi, Benares [Varanasi], India
Kristal Nacht:
beginning of Holocaust
The British pledge aid if Czechs
are attacked
Nazis invade Austria: “Anschluss”
Forty-hour work week established
Chamberlain meets Hitler at
Berchtesgarten
Alan Watts & Laura Huxley Talk About Krishnamurti
Extensive speaking; Benares [Varanasi], Nagpur, Calcutta [Kolkata], Vizag, Madras [Chennai], Rishi Valley, Madanapalle, Calicut, Tiruchi, India; Colombo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]; Adelaide, Newport, Melbourne, Australia; Auckland, Wellington, New Zealand
Britain and France declare war
on Germany
World War II begins: U.S. neutral
Germany and USSR sign
Nonaggression Pact
Germany attacks
Poland and Finland
General Franco captures Madrid
Spanish Civil War ends
Film “Gone With the Wind”
highest grossing film
James Joyce writes
Finnegans Wake
Steinbeck writes
The Grapes of Wrath
Sigmund Freud dies
Women & children evacuated
from London
Germans enter Prague
Einstein writes Roosevelt letter
warning about nuclear bomb
“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.”