Aryel sanat krishnamurti biography

Review by Hans van der Kroft

This book is an extensive in-depth investigation that presupposes a fairly thorough knowledge of Krishnamurti's life and work.

Of the work, because, as the author puts it: "lf you want to give yourself an opportunity to understand Krishnamurti, you must go to the source itself." Of the life, since only those aspects of it are discussed which the author feels are expressive of, or connected with, what he has chosen to call K's 'inner life', by which he means those private regions of K's life which "were rich in esoteric happenings".

The result is an intriguing book. Inspired by K's fairly rare and often rather vague hints about the source of his teachings, it builds up a theory combining statements and predictions of the early theosophists, of philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein and others, with the known facts concerning K and his teaching.

In this way, it weaves a dazzling web of amazing, alluring