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PREFACE In May 1985 Sri J. Krishnamvirti very kindly invited me for lunch at Arya Vihar, his home in Ojai, California. This was a memorable occasion as it .occurred only a few days after his 90th birthday. After a delicious vegetarian meal I informed Krishnaji that I was planning to compile for...

PrefaceTo write a biographyand especially one about Krishnamurtiurges the author of that biography to step back totally behind the person he wants to write about. He should attempt to become a kind of 'invisible historical observer' in the background of events or at most to appear in the book as an...

ii'll ^IV Foreword Hindu religious life has received its fair share of weighty scholarly treatment over the last two centuries. And there has been a massive effusion of testimonial and apologetic writing in English on diverse ways of being Hindu. What have not been readily available, however,...