One can learn easily when there is an atmosphere of freedom and friendship: Four Talks with Students Rajghat, India, 1965

1. Why are you being educated? - 1 December 1965 Duration: 75 minutes • What is the function of education? • Q: Some people say that we must live now and others say that we must be concerned further, beyond the present. • Q: Can man really be human without any effort? • Q: What is the difference between affection and love? • Q: How am I to know that I am bad? How am I to improve? • Q: Why does nature attract us? 2. You can understand yourself very simply when you are quiet - 4 December 1965 Duration: 71 minutes • When you are really quiet, alone with yourself, you begin to know yourself and to see the intricacies of your mind. • Q: Why does the mind get disturbed when it is in a state of revolt and how can it quieten down? • Q: Is communication possible in all conditions? Code: RA65TS1-4-A-ENG Copyright © 1965, Krishnamurti Foundation of America www.jkrishnamurti.org J. KRISHNAMURTI • Q: When we say anything that is a bit alternative to what our elders think, we are stopped. There is great tension between us. Will you say what we should do about it? • Q: What is humanity and when can a man be called a human being? • Q: Is our way of life right? • Q: You have said that we must have a quiet mind and at the same time you said that disturbance is inevitable. • Q: What is the importance of spirituality in the life of a human being? • Q: How does evil come about? 3. Why does one have to have order in life? - 7 December 1965 Duration: 74 minutes • You can learn easily when there is an atmosphere of freedom and friendship, a sense of happiness. That is denied when you are compelled. Compulsion is not righteous behaviour. • Q: What is the foundation of religion? • Q: Why does a man want success in life? • What are you going to be when you grow up? • Q: When bad thoughts come to our mind and we want to suppress them, even more bad thoughts come to our mind. Why is that? • Q: How is one to keep happy and engaged, without external stimuli? • Q: The other day you said that we should never seek advice - but why do you give us advice? • Q: Have you realised the things that you talk about? Is your mind free from ambition and all those things? • Q: How can a man progress in his own life? • Q: Man is more inclined towards bad than good - why it is so? 4. To understand death we must understand living - 10 December 1965 Duration: 75 minutes • When you really love something, you put your whole heart, mind and body into that. • Is there a living without pain, anxiety or fear? • Q: When a man improves, why do other people feel jealous of him? • Q: How long will it take for national frontiers to disappear? • Q: When man knows death is necessary, why doesn’t he love it? • Q: What is the definition of life? • Q: Sometimes we want to die, commit suicide - why is that? • Q: It is said that the soul is immortal. Where was it when there was nothing?

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