ams@philabs.UUCP (Ali Shaik) (02/18/86)
The Indian religous philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti
died in Ojai, California (see the NY Times of
18 Feb 86), at the age of 90.
Those of you who are interested in religion and
philosophy may find his books interesting: almost
any library would have them.
Ali Shaik {ucbvax!}ihnp4!philabs!amsKUS@PSUVM.BITNET (02/18/86)
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J. Krishnamurti, a well known Indian philosopher ,passed away at his
residence in Ojai, CA on Monday 17th Feb. He was 90 yrs old.
ajai
bala@purdue.UUCP (Bala Krishnamurthy) (02/22/86)
>> Was Ojai, Ca his "home"? I thought he was settled in England and >> made yearly trips to Ojai for the lectures. Ojai was where jk had the "experience" that he considered to be the turning point in his life (August 17, 1922). He always had a great liking for Ojai. He became a permanent resident of this country a few years ago. >> "If he's a great philosopher, why should he "hide" his baldness?" why are you interested in his baldness, or his "hiding" of his baldness? why are you even interested in his physical self? i refuse to interpret jk for you: "Do not quote me afterwards as an authority. I refuse to be your crutch" -- jk (isn't there a Computer Science term for this..:-) ) If you are *really* interested in finding about what jk lived for, try reading either the Penguin readers or to start things off (so that you can relate to his teachings in the '80s) with "The Flame of Attention" (a collection of talks given in India/Switzerland/England/USA during '81--'82) or "You are the world" (talks given at Brandeis/Berkeley/Stanford/UC Santa Cruz) I am not a hard core disciple of *anyone*. But this needed to be said. "I say again that I have no disciples. Everyone of you is a disciple of the Truth if you understand the Truth and do not follow individuals" -- J Krishnamurti, August 6, 1928, at the Eerde gathering, Ommen, Holland Balachander Krishnamurthy bala@purdue.EDU (ever reliable ARPA) Dept. of Computer Science bala.purdue@csnet-relay (reliable CSNET) Purdue University {ucbvax,decvax,hplabs}!purdue!bala (semi reliable usenet) W. Lafayette IN 47907 317-494-7805 (um, well, er... GTE)
jayasim@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (02/25/86)
/* Written 9:53 am Feb 22, 1986 by bala@purdue.UUCP in uiucdcsb:net.nlang.india */ >> "If he's a great philosopher, why should he "hide" his baldness?" >why are you interested in his baldness, or his "hiding" of his baldness? >why are you even interested in his physical self? (In this case) I'm not interested - it was just an amused obser- vation. But, just for the sake of argument, why shouldn't I be ? I do not disassociate a man from his ideas (esp. a philosopher) and hence I'm as interested in his physical self as his thoughts - this has to do with a broader definition of truth about which I do not want to delve - for the time being let's assume that a conflict should not exist between thought/word and deed. It's precisely this (conflict) that I see in the "hiding" of the baldness. d n jayasimha U of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, UUCP : ...!{ihnp4,convex,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!jayasim csnet: jayasim%uiucdcs@uiuc arpa: jayasim@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu