Krishnamurti is regarded globally as one of the greatest thinkers and religious teachers of all time. From the time of his break with the Theosophical Society in 1929 (dissolution speech) until his death in 1986, Krishnamurti spoke throughout the world to large audiences and to individuals about the need for a radical change in mankind.

A Series of 5 Public Talks in Amsterdam in 1968

These five talks have been chosen mainly in order to introduce Krishnamurti's teachings to those not previously acquainted with it. The wide range of human issues that he usually dwelt upon in his talks, writings, and dialogues are to be found in this series too, and while going into each of them, he carefully how they are all interrelated. In fact, in the last talk, in response to a listener's query, he says, 'There is no One Problem and Other Problems. All human problems are interrelated. And when I understand one problem completely, I have understood all problems. Even as he explores the psychological issues of authority, violence, pleasure, fear, sorrow, thought and time, he also emphasizes the importance of asking the larger questions that man has asked for millennia: "What do we live for? Is there a meaning to life at all? What is it all about?