The Process Intensifies
Krishnamurti remained in Ojai through 1946
Yalta Conference: Rossevelt, Churchill
and Stalin meet
Roosevelt dies
Truman becomes President
V-Day: World War II ends
35 million war dead
10 million in concentration camps
Hitler commits suicide
Nag Hammadi: Gnostic
Scrolls found in upper Egypt
General Charles de Gaulle
President of France;
provisional government
Atom bombs dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
150,000 killed outright
George Orwell: 1984
Mussolini killed in Italy
Pierre Laval sentenced to
death in France
Quisling sentenced to
death in Norway
Vietnam: war begins
between French colonialists
and Vietnamese
Auschwitz liberated
Bombing of Dresden
Eugene O’Neill:
“The Iceman Cometh”
London: first session of United
Nations General Assembly
Churchill gives “Iron Curtain” speech
Nurenberg Trial: Ribbentrop,
Goering and ten others
sentenced to death
Gertrude Stein dies
Benjamin Spock, M.D.:
Baby and Child Care
Aldous Huxley:
The Perennial Philosophy
Cocteau: “La Belle et la Bête”
Republican government in Italy
Greeks vote return of monarchy
Chinese Civil War
Philippines Republic inauguration
Vietnamese resist Iron Curtain
With the end of the war in 1945 and Indian independence from Britain in 1947, Krishnamurti was free to travel. He gave 12 public talks in Bombay attended by over 3000 people.
Israel declared a state
by United Nations
India gains independence
McCarthy era: Hollywood black list
Dead Sea scrolls found, dating from 22 BCE
Jackie Robinson
first African American to sign
with Brooklyn Dodgers
Tennessee Williams:
“A Streetcar Named Desire”
Flying saucers seen in USA
Truman Doctrine
India and Pakistan partition
Revolt against French rule
in Madagascar
Partition of Palestine
Taft-Hartley Act
Yaeger breaks sound barrier
Howard Hughes flies Spruce Goose
Women gain right to vote in Italy
The Diary of Anne Frank is published
During the 19 months he spent in India the ‘process’ returned with full force. He spoke in Bombay [Mumbai], Madras [Chennai], Bangalore, Pune, and New Delhi, India
Mohandas K. Gandhi assassinated
The Marshall Plan provides $17
billion in aid to Europe
Communist coup in Czechoslovakia
Berlin blockaded
Soviets recall advisors from
Yugoslavia
Nationalist defeat in Manchuria
Berlin airlift
Polaroid camera invented
Quantum Dynamics Theory
Soviets introduce Mig-15 Fighter
‘Citation’: Eddie Arcaro up wins
Belmont, Preakness and
Kentucky Derby
The decade concluded with talks in Bombay [Mumbai], Rajahmundry, Madras [Chennai], India; Colombo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]; Ojai, California; and London, England
Mao Tse Tung Chairman of
Peoples’ Republic of China
Soviets explode nuclear bomb:
the Cold War begins
Apartheid: official policy of
South Africa
Rogers and Hammerstein:
“South Pacific”
Federal Republic of Germany
Ireland wins independence
NATO, North Atlantic Treaty
signed in Washington
First around the world flight
Pancho Gonzalez wins U.S.
lawn tennis men’s singles
“It is important to understand the significance of right relationship. There can be no existence in isolation. To be is to be related. And without relationship there is no existence.”
All-India broadcast, 1948
Silent Footage of Krishnamurti Arrival/Departure in Sri Lanka
14th – The whole process has been going on all day – the pressure, the strain and the pain at the back of the head; woke up shouting several times, and even during the day there was involuntary groaning and shouting. Last night that sacred feeling filled the room and the other felt it also.
…
15th – The whole process was bad last night; it has left one rather tired and sleepless.
Woke up in the middle of the night, with a sense of immense and measureless strength. It was not the strength that will or desire has put together but the strength that is there in a river, in a mountain, in a tree. It is in man when every form of desire and will have completely ceased.
…
16th – The whole process went on most of the night; it was rather intense. How much can the body stand! The whole body was quivering and, this morning, woke up with the head shaking.
There was, this morning that peculiar sacredness, filling the room. It had great penetrating power, entering into every corner of one’s being, filling, cleansing, making everything of itself. The other felt it too. It’s the thing that every human being craves for and because they crave for it, it eludes them.
Excerpts from Krishnamurti’s Notebook
“There’s a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought. It is not recognizable by thought nor can it be utilized by thought. Thought cannot formulate it. But there’s a sacredness, untouched by any symbol or word. It is not communicable. It is a fact.”
Krishnamurti remained in Ojai through 1946
Yalta Conference: Rossevelt, Churchill
and Stalin meet
Roosevelt dies
Truman becomes President
V-Day: World War II ends
35 million war dead
10 million in concentration camps
Hitler commits suicide
Nag Hammadi: Gnostic
Scrolls found in upper Egypt
General Charles de Gaulle
President of France;
provisional government
Atom bombs dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
150,000 killed outright
George Orwell: 1984
Mussolini killed in Italy
Pierre Laval sentenced to
death in France
Quisling sentenced to
death in Norway
Vietnam: war begins
between French colonialists
and Vietnamese
Auschwitz liberated
Bombing of Dresden
Eugene O’Neill:
“The Iceman Cometh”
London: first session of United
Nations General Assembly
Churchill gives “Iron Curtain” speech
Nurenberg Trial: Ribbentrop,
Goering and ten others
sentenced to death
Gertrude Stein dies
Benjamin Spock, M.D.:
Baby and Child Care
Aldous Huxley:
The Perennial Philosophy
Cocteau: “La Belle et la Bête”
Republican government in Italy
Greeks vote return of monarchy
Chinese Civil War
Philippines Republic inauguration
Vietnamese resist Iron Curtain
“It is important to understand the significance of right relationship. There can be no existence in isolation. To be is to be related. And without relationship there is no existence.”
All-India broadcast, 1948
With the end of the war in 1945 and Indian independence from Britain in 1947, Krishnamurti was free to travel. He gave 12 public talks in Bombay attended by over 3000 people.
Israel declared a state
by United Nations
India gains independence
McCarthy era: Hollywood black list
Dead Sea scrolls found, dating from 22 BCE
Jackie Robinson
first African American to sign
with Brooklyn Dodgers
Tennessee Williams:
“A Streetcar Named Desire”
Flying saucers seen in USA
Truman Doctrine
India and Pakistan partition
Revolt against French rule
in Madagascar
Partition of Palestine
Taft-Hartley Act
Yaeger breaks sound barrier
Howard Hughes flies Spruce Goose
Women gain right to vote in Italy
The Diary of Anne Frank is published
Silent Footage of Krishnamurti Arrival/Departure in Sri Lanka
During the 19 months he spent in India the ‘process’ returned with full force. He spoke in Bombay [Mumbai], Madras [Chennai], Bangalore, Pune, and New Delhi, India
Mohandas K. Gandhi assassinated
The Marshall Plan provides $17
billion in aid to Europe
Communist coup in Czechoslovakia
Berlin blockaded
Soviets recall advisors from
Yugoslavia
Nationalist defeat in Manchuria
Berlin airlift
Polaroid camera invented
Quantum Dynamics Theory
Soviets introduce Mig-15 Fighter
‘Citation’: Eddie Arcaro up wins
Belmont, Preakness and
Kentucky Derby
14th – The whole process has been going on all day – the pressure, the strain and the pain at the back of the head; woke up shouting several times, and even during the day there was involuntary groaning and shouting. Last night that sacred feeling filled the room and the other felt it also.
…
15th – The whole process was bad last night; it has left one rather tired and sleepless.
Woke up in the middle of the night, with a sense of immense and measureless strength. It was not the strength that will or desire has put together but the strength that is there in a river, in a mountain, in a tree. It is in man when every form of desire and will have completely ceased.
…
16th – The whole process went on most of the night; it was rather intense. How much can the body stand! The whole body was quivering and, this morning, woke up with the head shaking.
There was, this morning that peculiar sacredness, filling the room. It had great penetrating power, entering into every corner of one’s being, filling, cleansing, making everything of itself. The other felt it too. It’s the thing that every human being craves for and because they crave for it, it eludes them.
Excerpts from Krishnamurti’s Notebook
The decade concluded with talks in Bombay [Mumbai], Rajahmundry, Madras [Chennai], India; Colombo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]; Ojai, California; and London, England
Mao Tse Tung Chairman of
Peoples’ Republic of China
Soviets explode nuclear bomb:
the Cold War begins
Apartheid: official policy of
South Africa
Rogers and Hammerstein:
“South Pacific”
Federal Republic of Germany
Ireland wins independence
NATO, North Atlantic Treaty
signed in Washington
First around the world flight
Pancho Gonzalez wins U.S.
lawn tennis men’s singles
“There’s a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought. It is not recognizable by thought nor can it be utilized by thought. Thought cannot formulate it. But there’s a sacredness, untouched by any symbol or word. It is not communicable. It is a fact.”