Here is perhaps the most straightforward, no-nonsense book yet written about that truth which many ’spiritual seekers’ are seeking - what most gurus call ’enlightenment’, and what U.G. Krishnamurti calls the ’natural state’. U.G. maintains, in this selection from his conversations, that ’so-called enlightenment’ is a purely biological phenomenon, that only when we are completely free of culture, conditioning, religious thinking and intellect, can the body, with its own ’extraordinary intelligence’, free the human being to be in the natural state. U.G. has been living in this state since the experience he calls the "calamity" happened to him in Switzerland on his 49th birthday. He has since become widely known, both in Europe and in India, as one who speaks with authority on the subject. U.G.’s ’talks’ are informal and take place wherever he happens to be. He is no relation to J. Krishnamurti, the famous spiritual leader, whose teachings he once admired, and now considers ’archaic hogwash’. He is probably the most controversial of all the experts in such matters, gurus or non-gurus. He has been called ’outrageous’, ’infuriating,’ and a ’prophet of anti-wisdom’.

U.G. Krishnamurti emphatically denies the existence of self, spirit or mind, asserting that only the physical body and natural world exist. He states all human experience and understanding derives from acquired knowledge, not direct perception, and attempts to free oneself through spiritual or intellectual means are futile, as thought itself is a product of the conditioned mechanism. Krishnamurti advocates leaving the body’s natural functioning alone, without interference from the conceptualizing mind.