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The First and Last Freedom

by J. Krishnamurti

📖 288 pages 🗓 1954 ISBN 9780575004160

About This Book

With a foreword by Aldous Huxley, this landmark work presents the core of Krishnamurti's philosophy in question-and-answer form — addressing fear, desire, consciousness, relationship, and the nature of the self. Huxley's introduction frames Krishnamurti as one of the clearest voices of the 20th century on the nature of human conditioning and inner liberation.

What You'll Learn

The observer and the observed are not two separate things; the one who says "I am afraid" is the fear itself. Freedom cannot be approached through any system, guru, or method — it can only arise through direct self-inquiry. Thought is a mechanical response of memory and can never create the timeless state of freedom.

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