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Louis Brawley met UG Krishnamurti in 2002 and spent the following five years travelling with him in the USA, India and Europe keeping a record of this remarkable non-teacher and documenting his own inner struggles as his ideas about life, love and Enlightenment were constantly tossed around and demolished. Louis fell into the role of foil and sidekick to UG’s bizarre interactions with his friends and audience and, as UG’s health deteriorated, he became his informal caregiver.

Louis Brawley doesn’t use honeyed platitudes to tell the story of a sage and his devoted follower; instead he tells an often unflattering story of his own struggles and shortcomings and the dynamic uncertainties of life with a man who “tore apart everything human beings have built up inside and out for centuries.”

Goner will teach you the meaning of the phrase “paradoxical truth”. UG Krishnamurti gave up everything for truth, but delighted in ridiculous fabrications; he was a teacher who refused to teach, a man who mocked do-gooders but was deeply kind; he was chaste but foul mouthed, he was a man who decried the supernatural … yet there were strange coincidences around him. “…the way he lived, his living quarters and his mode of expression were one continuous movement, a three dimensional, living book of teaching. If you were observant, you could learn from him on contact with no need for explanation.”

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GONER The ﬁnal travels of UG Krishnamurti

Louis Brawley

NONDUALITY PRESS

This book is possible thanks to Mukunda, Balaji, Mahesh, Anirban, the Guhas, Roger, Nancy, Aiden, Jesse and, of course, UG.

GONER

First edition published May 2011 byNONDUA LIT YPR ESS

Louis Brawley has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identiﬁed as author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior permission in writing from the Publisher.

NONDUALITYPRESS| PO Box 2228 | Salisbury | SP2 2GZ United Kingdom

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You are trying to present me as a religious man, which I am not. You are failing to comprehend the most important thing that I am emphasizing. There is no religious content, no mystical overtones at all, in what I am saying. Man has to be saved from the saviors of mankind! The religious people—they kidded themselves and fooled the whole of mankind. Throw them out! That is courage itself, because of the courage there; not the courage you practice.

Contents

Chapter 1............................................................................. 1 Chapter 2............................................................................. 4 Chapter 3............................................................................11 Chapter 4............................................................................14 Chapter 5............................................................................21 Chapter 6........................................................................... 28 Chapter 7........................................................................... 30 Chapter 8........................................................................... 38 Chapter 9............................................................................47 Chapter 10..........................................................................51 Chapter 11 ......................................................................... 56 Chapter 12......................................................................... 63 Chapter 13......................................................................... 68 Chapter 14..........................................................................79 Chapter 15......................................................................... 83 Chapter 16......................................................................... 88 Chapter 17 ..........................................................................97 Chapter 18....................................................................... 100 Chapter 19....................................................................... 104 Chapter 20........................................................................107 Chapter 21........................................................................ 112 Chapter 22........................................................................129 Chapter 23........................................................................133 Chapter 24........................................................................137 Chapter 25........................................................................147 Chapter 26........................................................................152 Chapter 27........................................................................165 Chapter 28........................................................................173 Chapter 29........................................................................177 Chapter 30........................................................................186 Chapter 31........................................................................194 Chapter 32........................................................................ 211

Chapter 33........................................................................214 Chapter 34....................................................................... 220 Chapter 35....................................................................... 230 Chapter 36....................................................................... 234 Chapter 37....................................................................... 238 Chapter 38........................................................................247 Chapter 39........................................................................251 Chapter 40....................................................................... 260 Chapter 41....................................................................... 263 Chapter 42....................................................................... 268 Chapter 43........................................................................271 Chapter 44........................................................................277 Chapter 45........................................................................279 Chapter 46....................................................................... 283 Chapter 47....................................................................... 290 Chapter 48....................................................................... 294 Chapter 49....................................................................... 299 Chapter 50....................................................................... 308 Chapter 51........................................................................313 Chapter 52........................................................................ 316 Chapter 53........................................................................ 318 Chapter 54........................................................................323 Chapter 55........................................................................328 Chapter 56........................................................................331 Chapter 57........................................................................335 Chapter 58........................................................................341 Chapter 59....................................................................... 348 Chapter 60 .......................................................................355 Chapter 61........................................................................357 Chapter 62........................................................................361 Chapter 63....................................................................... 365 Chapter 64....................................................................... 367 Chapter 65....................................................................... 369 Chapter 66........................................................................372

goner[ˈgɒnə] n Slanga person or thing beyond help or recovery, esp a person who is dead or about to die

Collins English Dictionary—Complete and Unabridged HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

UG often professed a liking for American underground slang. More than once he told the story that while he was down and out in London with his ‘head missing’ he would sit in the Brit ish Library in the chair where Karl Marx wroteDas Kapital. He spent hours reading a tome called the Dictionary of Ameri can Underground Slang to pass the time.Gonerwas one of his favorite words to describe the people who ‘hung around’ him.

March 13, 2007

CHAPTER 1

On March 13, 2007 I walked out the door to what we called his ‘cave’ knowing it was the last time I would see him alive. A life of constant travel with a sage was coming to an end and I was so exhausted I couldn’t think. After spending day and night with him for almost eight weeks the door clicked shut behind me and a ﬁveyear encounter with oblivion ended, or so it seemed at the time. The curtains were pulled against the fresh smell of the garden where the grass was glistening with dew and the scents of a lush Italian garden. The twohundredyearold palm tree in the middle of the garden threw a long cool shadow across the sparkling green lawn where for eight weeks UG Krishna murti spent his ﬁnal days sitting up long enough to shout at us, collapsing after increasingly shorter bursts of invective against everything mankind thought, felt and believed. He monitored his own death with indifferent curiosity. “How am I doing, doc?” he would ask any one of his medical friends. Yet, unlike the recovery after his last fall, he grew gradually weaker each day. He seemed incapable of or uninterested in doing anything that might ‘prolong the misery’; that was his assessment of the usual medical treatment we seek in order to sustain life in a constant battle of ideas verses the natural order. Seeking medical help in any form was out of the question, so it took a while to realize that he might actually die, because of his indifference to the outcome of his situation. To the end of

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