At the Feet of the Master and Towards Discipleship

By Krishnamurti Alcyone

Krishnamurti records his teachings, as he received them from his spiritual teacher during sleep. They address their young student's problems of daily living and set forth a simple guide to right behavior-the prerequisite for spiritual progress. Now, almost a century later, this classical jewel of esoteric wisdom still shines a strong, pure light on how to begin the spiritual path.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Quest Books
• Release date: Aug 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9780835631419

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at the feet of

the master

and towards

discipleship

at the feet of

the master

and towards

discipleship

Jiddu Krishnamurti

(Alcyone)

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Copyright © 2001 by the Theosophical Society in America

First Quest Edition 2001

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Krishnamurti, J. (Jiddu).

At the feet of the master and toward discipleship/Jiddu

Krishnamurti (Alcyone) — New quest ed., rev. and enl.

p.   cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-8356-0803-9

1. Theosophy  I. Title

BP565.K7 A48 2001

299’.934 — dc21      2001019790

ISBN for electronic edition, e-pub format: 978-0-8356-2177-9

To

Those Who Knock

From the unreal lead me to the Real.

From darkness lead me to Light.

From death lead me to Immortality.

Contents

At the Feet of the Master

The Origin of This Book

Foreword

Preface

Discrimination

Desirelessness

Six Points of Conduct

1. Self-control as to the mind

2. Self-control in action

3. Tolerance

4. Cheerfulness

5. One-pointedness

6. Confidence

Love

Towards Discipleship

The Origin of This Talk

Eight Further Qualifications for the Path

References and Further Reading

List of Illustrations

a painting by Alfred Hitchens:

Krishnamurti holding a copy of At the

Feet of the Master in his right hand

Krishnamurti, early 1910

Krishnamurti at Pergine, 1924

Krishnamurti, 1927

at the feet of

the master

The Origin of This Book

It was a hot summer evening in 1909. The famous clairvoyant Charles Webster Leadbeater, who had returned to Adyar earlier that year, had gone to the beach to swim in the warm waters of the Bay of Bengal. On returning, he remarked to his assistant, Ernest Wood, that on the beach he had seen a boy with the most remarkable aura he had ever observed, one with no taint of selfishness in it. When Wood learned the identity of the lad with the wonderful aura, he was amazed because, having tried to tutor that very boy in his studies, Wood had concluded he must be retarded.

When Wood told Leadbeater his impressions of the boy, the old man insisted that the youngster would grow into a spiritual