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RAGHAVA R. MENON
J. KISHNAMOORTHY by Pupul Jayakar Penguin (India), 1988, 518 pp., 85.00
Jan-Feb 1988, volume 12, No 1

Pupul Jaykar’s Jiddu Krishnamoorthy is a book of great warmth and perception about a man of penetrating insight into the nature of life and the reality that subsumes it. It is a book that requires reading several times over for it contains not only the broad events in this curious man’s life but also the resonance of his life in the spiritual life of those who, as Pupul Jayakar did, knew him personally and at close quarters.

Krishnamoorthy belongs to the same class of spiritual seekers as Gurdjieff, Ouspensky and Ramana Maharshi with whom he shared several decades of this century. He believed that the human problem did not lie ‘out there’ in society, in the economy, in government or in the conduct of international affairs. The human problem was in man himself, not in the world around him. Unless he changed, no action however cleverly conceived and argued had the slightest chance of success.

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