He enjoined them to speak candidly for the sake of those who would not have the opportunity to know K personally. Krishna has brought an enormous amount of information about the extraordinary nature of K through his personal recollections of his numerous meetings with Krishnamurti and sensitive interviews with people like Vimala Thakar, Achyut Patwardhan and Radha Burnier who were very close to K. He tells us much about K but does not claim to explain him. Hardly five weeks before his death he said to Krishna, "There are very few people in the world I trust completely and you are one of them." In this book Krishna gives many details about the character of K and at the same time manages to maintain the mystery that K was whom he approaches with awe, respect and humility. It is clear from several accounts in the book that Krishnamurti had a very special and affectionate appreciation of and regard for Krishna whom he persuaded to become the Rector of the Rajghat Education Centre and also the principal of the Rajghat Besant School. He was closely associated with Krishnamurti for nearly three decades. Krishna the author is a remarkable man with an acute scientific mind and a great spiritual sensitivity. Krishnamurti was an extraordinary person, with a quality of consciousness which cannot be explained in any rational terms, and he himself was not able to explain how he came to that consciousness which was free of all ego constraints. Krishnamurti, an embodiment of the Buddha consciousness for many, the Socrates of the 20th century for some, and "more of a phenomenon than a person," as remarked by Vimala Thakar in an interview with the author. I am delighted to write a foreword to a book by my friend Krishna about J.
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