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• He offered logical
• The author was enamored
explanations for various
by UG due to his unsettling
widely-accepted practices
honesty, lack of pretense,
revolving around
and ability to demolish
meditation, yoga, and the
people’s illusions Got married, had children,
Had a couple of falls, general state of being
• He challenged authority of went to US for son’s
decided to ‘let go’, died in • Society puts dissenters in treatment, gave lectures
2007 other gurus, demolishing
two silos – either and became popular
their hegemony over
extremists in terms of
spirituality, and providing
actions or passive altruistic
new perspectives; proved
protestors. In this case, UG
that altruism is not the
was a lethal combination of
only way to create change UG Krishnamurty both, and as effective