BOND AND FREE

J Krishnamurti The First and Last Freedom With a Foreword by Aldous Huxley Goliancz 13s 6d

For thirty years Krishnamurti has been talking quietly and informally to large audiences in India America Australia Europe and England Verbatim reports of many of these talks and of the questions and answers which have invariably formed a part of them have been issued for the benefit of his listeners But this volume is the first to be published in the ordinary way and addressed to readers who have not yet fallen under his spell It contains an excellent selection of talks and answers on the themes with which he has continuously dealt Here is the gist of his gospel though the word has associations which he would be the first to reject He was brought up as is well known under the guardianship of Annie Besant and within the circle of that branch of the Theosophical Society over which she presided She proclaimed him as the avatar or Messiah for whom the world was waiting He refused however to play the part assigned to...