‘Knowledge is absolutely necessary to earn a livelihood, but why should I accumulate psychological knowledge?’

Each weekly episode in this season of the Krishnamurti podcast is based on a major theme of the philosopher’s talks, such as freedom, self-knowledge, beauty, intelligence and meditation. Extracts from our archives have been carefully selected to represent Krishnamurti’s different approaches to each of these universal and timelessly relevant themes.

This week’s episode has four sections. The first extract (2:22) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk in San Francisco 1973, titled ‘The function of knowledge’.

The second extract (16:38) is from the first talk in Saanen 1973, titled ‘What place has knowledge in transformation?’

The third extract (40:14) is from Krishnamurti’s first talk at Brockwood Park in 1980, titled ‘Ignorance and knowledge go together’.

The final extract (52:10) this week is from the sixth talk in Bombay 1981, titled ‘Meditation is the understanding of knowledge’.

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