Only revolution / ed.by Mary Lutyens

Krishnamurti has had a remarkable publishing history in this country. It was only in 1954 that we launched him with The First and Last Freedom, which has now gone into many editions. And its critical reception matched its sales. "He is an artist both in vision and in analysis" wrote the Times Literary Supplement; and the Observer re marked that "for those who wish to listen, it will have a value beyond

words". Education and the Significance of Life followed, and Commentaries on Living was published two years later. During the previous ten years Krish namurti had travelled extensively and hundreds of men and women. everywhere had met him individually and discussed with him the innumer able personal problems of their varied lives, spontaneously and freely. These self-revelations and ponderings had been expressions of intensely emotional experiences and not merely philosophical inquiries or the intellectual, speculative search for solutions and remedies. Often there had been a complete communion of minds, earnest seeking and sudden illumination. This direct communion and deep listening had brought valuable discoveries in the world of human consciousness. Now and then, during these years. Krishnamurti noted down recol lected conversations, relating them to the surroundings of Nature. Nothing was imagined or invented: he wrote down simply truly what hap pened. It was from the resulting notebooks that Commentaries on Living was edited; and its success was such that we felt encouraged to issue two further selections from Krisna murti's notebooks, under the title Commentaries on Living, Second Series and Commentaries on Living, Third Series.

And them came Life Ahead-a comprehensive collection, for the first time, of Krishnamurti's talks to students, teachers and parents, and This Matter of Culture, a second series of these invaluable talks.