Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.

The following day the symptoms and the experience intensified climaxing with a sense of "immense peace. Biography


Family background and childhood
Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on May 12 1895 in the small town of Madanapalle in Madras Presidency (modern-day[update]Chittoor District in Andhra Pradesh). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and Leadbeater leaders of the Society at the time who believed him to be a "vehicle" for an expected World Teacher.

In early adolescence he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras. He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and Leadbeater leaders of the Society at the time who believed him to be a "vehicle" for an expected World Teacher.