ABOUT THIS INDEX

The page numbering of references in this index was taken from

the original Gollancz and Harper & Row editions. As other
editions (such as that produced by the Krishnamurti Foundation
India) may have different page numbering, chapter and
paragraph numbers have also been provided. References that
have been underlined are those in which the entire chapter or
question & answer is devoted to that subject.

KEY

C = Chapter number
Q = Question & Answer number
P = Paragraph number
pp = Page number(s)

Index to 'The First and Last Freedom' by J. Krishnamurti
Acceptance: definition of, C10 P10 pp 86-87
Accumulation: as bringing pain, C10 P5-6 pp 84-85
Action: and idea, C5 pp 50-56; without idea, Q25 pp
243-45; as creating the actor, C5 P4 pp 50; without
ideation, C5 P16-20 pp 53-56; reward and
punishment as basis of, Q25 P2 pp 243; as thought,
C5 P2 pp 50; understanding fundamental nature of,
C5 P9 pp 52
Actor: created by action with an end in view, C5 P4-5
pp 50-51
Actor, action and result: as our daily existence, C5 P6
pp 51; as process of becoming, C5 P6 pp 51; as
unitary process, C5 P5 pp 51
Affection: and communication, C1 P1 pp 19
Alone: as extraordinarily difficult to be, Q6 P4 pp 166
Analyser: as the analysed, Q24 P6-8 pp 239-40; as part
of the background, Q20 P8 pp 225
Analyser and the analysed: as joint phenomenon, Q24
P6-8 pp 239-40
Analysis: and change, C21 P5 pp 137; process of, Q24
P6-10 pp 239-41
Approximation: and contradiction, Q29 P10 pp 260-61
Architects: of a new society, C3 P11 pp 39
Armed forces: reason for, C10 P5 pp 84
Assertion: and denial, C8 P1 pp 71
Authority: as preventing the understanding of oneself,
C4 P11 pp 47-48
Awareness, C12 pp 94-98; of the activities of the self,
C16 P6 pp 113; without choice, C12 P10 pp 97-98;
of everything as it arises, Q8 P4 pp 173-74; how is
one to be aware? C12 P2 pp 94; and interest, Q8
P3-4 pp 173-74; and introspection, Q8 pp 172-76;
without justification, C12 P4 pp 95; to meet life as
a whole, C12 P1 pp 94; from moment to moment,
C12 P11-12 pp 98; as observation without
condemnation, Q8 P3 pp 173; of the present, C8
P10-11 pp 74-75; of the present without choice, C8
P11 pp 75; of response to a stimulus, C12 P2 pp 94;
of what one is, C1 P5 pp 20; who is aware? Q8 P6
pp 174-75
Becoming: as cause of contradiction, C8 P7 pp 73;
reasons for, C7 P11 pp 69; as strife, C5 P6 pp 51;
C7 P10 pp 68-69
Being nothing: and co-operation, C18 P10 pp 123-24;
and freedom from deception, C18 P7 pp 122
Belief(s), C6 pp 57-65; as desire to be secure, C6 P5-6
pp 59-61; and fear, C6 P3 pp 57-58; in God, Q16
pp 205-8; as not uniting people, C6 P11 pp 63-64;
as preventing psychological pain, C10 P3 pp 83-84;
as process of isolation, C6 P4-5 pp 59-60; reasons
for, C6 P3 pp 57-58; as separating people, C6 P2
pp 57
Belief and knowledge: as structure of the mind, C6
P12 pp 64-65
Blank mind: as state of stupor, idiocy, C16 P9 pp 114
Boredom: and interest, Q12 pp 190-92
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Capacity: and pleasure and pain, C12 P3 pp 95; and
understanding oneself, C12 P3-6 pp 95-96
Centre: dissolution of, C9 P7-14 pp 78-81; Q27 P6 pp
250-51; as the word, Q27 P6-7 pp 250-51
Change, C21 P1-6 pp 136-38; as beyond the conscious
mind, C21 P10 pp 139; and conflict, C21 P5-6 pp
137-38; versus conformity to a pattern, C21 P1 pp
136; as essential, C21 P6 pp 137-38; and image of
reality, C21 P8-9 pp 138-39
Chastity: as not of the mind, Q21 P5 pp 229-30
Choice: as confusion, C12 P10 pp 97-98; between
essentials and non-essentials, Q32 P3-4 pp 271-72
Communication, C1 P1 pp 19; and affection, C1 P1 pp
19; using simple words, C1 P2 pp 19
Communion, C1 P1-2 pp 19; real, C1 P1 pp 19
Completion: of every thought and feeling, Q26 P3-6 pp
246-48
Concentration, Q19 P5-6 pp 217-18
Condemnation: as not understanding, C12 P4 pp 95; as
purposive, C12 P4 pp 95
Conditioning: freedom from, Q20 P6-10 pp 224-26
Conflict: between superficial and deeper layers of the
mind, C21 P4 pp 137; and change, C21 P5 pp 137
Conformity: and insensitivity, C11 P6 pp 90; and
simplicity, C11 P6 pp 90
Confusion: cause of, C1 P11-13 pp 23-24; ending, C1
P16 pp 25; of the mind, Q37 pp 282-84; of the
world, C1 P7 pp 21
Conscience: as formed by conditioning, C10 P2 pp 83
Conscious: and unconscious, C6 P11 pp 63-64; Q20 pp
222-26
Conscious and unconscious, C6 P11 pp 63-64; Q20 pp
222-26; conflict between, Q20 P2 pp 222-23; as
unitary state, Q20 P3 pp 223
Consciousness, C21 P2-3 pp 136-37; as action, C5 P3
pp 50; as challenge and response, C5 P3 pp 50; and
change, C21 P2 pp 136; as experiencing, naming,
and recording, C5 P3 pp 50; many layers of, Q24
P4 pp 239; as movement of the past to the future,
Q20 P3-4 pp 223-24; as thinking process, C21 P3
pp 137
Contentment: definition of true, C7 P5 pp 67
Contradiction, C8 pp 71-75; how to be free of, C8 P11
pp 75; as impetus to live, C8 P9 pp 74; reason for,
C8 P3-12 pp 72-75. See also Self-contradiction
Co-operation, C18 P8-12 pp 122-24; and being
nothing, C18 P10 pp 123-24; versus belief, C18
P12 pp 124; versus identification, C18 P10-11 pp
123-24; without seeking a result, C18 P9 pp 123
Creation: as cessation of effort, C7 P8 pp 68; as not an
experience of the self, C9 P11 pp 80; as not
sensation, C13 P8 pp 102
Creativeness, C4 P12-14 pp 48-49; C7 P9-10 pp 68-69;
and capacity, C4 P12 pp 48; definition of, C4 P12
pp 48

Creativity: and freedom from the past, Q4 P6 pp
155-56; moment of, C19 P10 pp 129
Crisis: world, Q1 pp 145-47
Criticism, Q15 pp 201-204
Death, Q23 pp 235-37; finding truth of, C18 P4-5 pp
121; known while living, Q23 P4-6 pp 235-37
Defence: seed of, brings offence, C10 P5 pp 84
Delusions: of the mind, C18 P1 pp 120
Denial: and assertion, C8 P1 pp 71
Desire, C13 pp 99-103; as endless struggle, C13 P1 pp
99; as perception, sensation, and contact, C13 P4
pp 100; permanent versus impermanent, C8 P4-6
pp 72-73; relationship to belief and knowledge, C6
P1 pp 57; as resistance and yielding, C13 P3 pp
100; for security, C6 P5-6 pp 59-61; for silence of
the mind, C9 P5 pp 77; as symbol and its sensation,
C13 P2-3 pp 99-100
Desires: as of no fixed point, C8 P6 pp 72-73;
opposing, C8 P3-6 pp 72-73; projection of, C9 P4-6
pp 77-78; as transient, C8 P6 pp 72-73
Direct experience: prevention of, C11 P7 pp 90-91;
and simplicity, C11 P10 pp 91-92
Discipline, Q5 pp 157-64; as a course of action
promising a reward, Q5 P5 pp 158; and decay, Q5
P10 pp 160; as escape from conflict, Q5 P16 pp
162-3; and fear, Q5 P18 pp 163-4; versus freedom,
Q5 P14 pp 162; and imitation, Q5 P12 pp 160-61;
and intelligence, Q5 P5 pp 158; as process of
strengthening the self, C17 P7 pp 117-18
Disciplining process: as thought process, C17 P7 pp
117-18
Dissolution: of the centre of desire, C13 P4 pp 100
Disturbance: importance of, Q13 P3-10 pp 193-96
Dualistic action: as experiencing, becoming, C15 P2
pp 108
Ecstasy: and the immediate present, C20 P2 pp 131-32
Education: task of, C3 P4 pp 35
Effort, C7 pp 66-70; to achieve result, C7 P2 pp 66; as
distraction from what is, C7 P7 pp 68; and division
into the experiencer and the experience, C15 P2 pp
108; our life as based on, C7 P1 pp 66; maker of,
and object, as the same, C15 P7 pp 110; as
producing conflict, C7 P3 pp 66; reasons for, C7 P2
pp 66; C7 P11-12 pp 69; as self-centred, C7 P3 pp
66; as struggle to change what is into what should
be, C7 P5-7 pp 67-68; as struggle to become
something, C7 P10 pp 68-69; as struggle to fulfil
oneself, C7 P10 pp 68-69
Emptiness: attempting to fill, Q6 P4-5 pp 166; of the
mind, C21 P13-14 pp 141; superficial, C21 P13 pp
141
Ending: unconscious activity, C12 P3 pp 95
Envy: as basis of society, C3 P7 pp 36-37; as
destructive factor in relationship, C3 P7 pp 36-37
Escape: as basis of our culture, Q6 P3 pp 165-66
Existence: as relationship, C14 P2 pp 104
Experience: definition of, C9 P3 pp 76-77; as dividing
factor in relationship, C18 P13 pp 124; to be
entrenched in, C9 P7 pp 78; and naming process,
C9 P3 pp 76-77; as reaction, C9 P3 pp 76-77; as
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strengthening the self, C9 P2-14 pp 76-81; as way
of deception, C18 P13 pp 124
Experiencer: as gathering or denying, C15 P1 pp 108
Experiencer and the experience: neither exist when
there is experiencing, C5 P8 pp 51-52; Q8 P6 pp
174-5
Experiencing: moment of, C5 P8 pp 51-52; Q8 P6 pp
174-75
Exploitation, Q30 P3-4 pp 263-64
Family: and relationship, Q9 P3 pp 177-78
Fear, C10 pp 83-87; Q11 pp 186-189; of death, C10 P1
pp 83; Q11 P5 pp 187; and desire to be in a pattern,
C10 P7 pp 85; exists as long as there is
accumulation, C10 P4 pp 84; of fact or idea? Q11
P5-9 pp 187-89; as incomplete comprehension of
relationship, Q11 P2 pp 186; of loneliness, Q11
P6-7 pp 187-88; of losing, C10 P4 pp 84; as non-
acceptance of what is, C10 P10 pp 86; of not being,
becoming, Q11 P4 pp 186-87; as outcome of
naming, Q11 P6-9 pp 187-89; as reason for belief,
C6 P3 pp 57-58; as always in relation to the known,
C10 P1-2 pp 83; of pain, C10 P3 pp 83-84;
understanding v conquering, Q11 P3 pp 186
Following: every thought, C4 P6 pp 45
Frame: breaking, C10 P7 pp 85. See also Pattern
Freedom: from belief, C6 P10-12 pp 62-65; from all
conditioning, Q20 P6-10 pp 224-26; from desire to
be secure, C6 P6 pp 60-61; from desire and
sensation, C13 P8 pp 102; from knowledge, C6
P10-12 pp 62-65
Frontier(s) : as preventing peace, C14 P4 pp 105-6
Fulfilment: desire for, C7 P10-11 pp 68-69. See also
Self-fulfilment
God, Q30 pp 263-66; cannot be experienced, C21 P16
pp 142; knowing, Q16 P7 pp 207; as not given by
someone else, C2 P8 pp 30-31; as permanent
gratification, C8 P6 pp 72-73; trying to imagine,
Q4 P3 pp 154-55
Good and evil, Q1 P2 pp 145-46
Gossip, Q14 P2 pp 197-200
Gratification: is there permanent gratification? C2 P6-7
pp 30; and relationship, C14 P4 pp 105
Greed: and the observer, C15 P6-7 pp 109-110; and
resistance, Q5 P6-7 pp 158-59
Guru(s), Q3 pp 150-53; and confusion, Q3 P3-5 pp
150-51; and gratification, Q3 P3-4 pp 150-51; and
lack of self-understanding, Q3 P5 pp 151
Happiness: as not result of effort, C7 P4 pp 66-67; as
not of yesterday, C20 P2 pp 131-32; only when
activity from the centre ceases, C19 P1 pp 126;
seeking, C20 P1 pp 131
Hate, Q13 pp 193-96
Honesty: as necessary in finding truth, C8 P6 pp 72-73
Humility: and simplicity, C11 P13 pp 93
Idea(s): and action, C5 pp 50-56; as distorting the
mind, C3 P9 pp 37-38; nature of, C5 P12-20 pp
53-56; as not solving any human problem, C16
P1-2 pp 111; as not truth, C5 P20 pp 55; as
outcome of thought process, C5 P13 pp 53

Identification: as escape, C10 P8 pp 85-86; as process
of self-forgetfulness, C10 P8 pp 85-86; as search
for power, C14 P8 pp 107; and self-centredness,
C19 P2 pp 126-27; and way to dissolve the self, C9
P8 pp 78
Idolatry: and imitation, C17 P10 pp 119
Incentives: as divisive, Q16 P5 pp 206
Individual: as mere instrument of society, C3 P1-2 pp
34; and society, C3 pp 34-41
Individual and society, C3 pp 34-41
Individual salvation, C17 P4 pp 116-17
Inner: and outer, C11 P5-6 pp 89-90
Inner and outer, C11 P5-6 pp 89-90
Insecurity: as essential for understanding, Q13 P9-10
pp 195-96
Intellect: worship of, C17 P4 pp 116-17
Intellectual understanding: as no understanding, Q13
P2 pp 193
Intelligence: as being without the self, C9 P9 pp 78-79;
how it comes into being, C16 P8 pp 113-14; partial
versus integral, C9 P9 pp 78-79; and specialization,
C12 P7 pp 96
Interest: and boredom, Q12 pp 190-92
Interval: between two thoughts, Q17 P4 pp 210-11;
Q20 P10 pp 226
Introspection: and awareness, Q8 pp 172-76; and
depression, Q8 P2 pp 172; as self-expansive, Q8 P5
pp 174/P9 pp 76; and self-improvement, Q8 P2-4/9
pp 172-74/76
Inward poverty, C7 P11 pp 69
Inward insufficiency: living with, C7 P14 pp 70
Isolation: as process of thought, C17 P3-8 pp 115-118;
no such thing as living in, C4 P3 pp 43; as search
for power, C14 P5 pp 106
Joy: as when there is no hindrance, C10 P10 pp 86-87;
and the immediate present, C20 P2 pp 131-32; as
not the result of control and suppression, C7 P4 pp
66-67; as absence of self, C10 P10 pp 86-87
Knowledge, Q4 pp 154-56; and ambition, C6 P8 pp
61-62; and belief, C6 P9-13 pp 62-65; and
creativity, Q4 P2 pp 154; as hindrance, Q4 P4-6 pp
155-56; and learning, Q4 pp 154-56; versus the
new, Q4 P2 pp 154; as not reality, C6 P10 pp
61-62; as not able to solve problems, C11 P9 pp 91;
and understanding truth, C6 P7 pp 61
Knowledge and belief: as structure of the mind, C6
P12 pp 64-65
Known: and unknown, Q4 P4 pp 155; Q28 pp 255-57
Label(s): different from feeling? Q27 P8 pp 252; as
more important than the substance, Q27 P6-9 pp
250-252
Legislation: as of little significance, C11 P4 pp 89
Life: as becoming more complex, C11 P2 pp 88-89; as
challenge and response, Q26 P2 pp 246; as
experience in relationship, C14 P1 pp 104; as a
matter of relationship, C12 P12 pp 98; as opposing
fleeting desires, C8 P5 pp 72; as a process of
becoming, C5 P2 pp 50; as process of isolation,
C14 P4 pp 105; as relationship to the whole, C12
P1 pp 94; as a series of actions, C5 P6 pp 51
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Listening: art of, C1 P3 pp 19; through a screen of
prejudice, C1 P3 pp 19; without opposition, C1 P4
pp 20
Living: without belief, C6 P2 pp 57
Loneliness, Q6 pp 165-67; definition of, Q6 P2 pp
165; escape from, Q6 P3 pp 165-66; transformation
of, Q6 P6 pp 166-67
Love, Q22 pp 232-34; as action without idea, C5
P17-18 pp 55; cannot be acquired, C16 P7 pp 113;
and co-operation, C17 P9-10 pp 119; door to, C19
P11 pp 129; as eternally new, C19 P12 pp 129;
versus the intellect, C17 P9 pp 119; need for
negative approach to, Q22 P2 pp 232; as not an
experience, C5 P17 pp 55; as not the result of strife,
C7 P4 pp 66-67; as not of the self, C9 P16 pp 82; as
not thinking of yourself, C17 P9 pp 119; as only
reformation that can change the world, C9 P16 pp
82; as only solution, C16 P10 pp 114; and
relationship, Q9 P7-9 pp 178-81; and social
problems, C16 P7 pp 113; versus vested interests,
C17 P9 pp 119
Lying, Q29 P2-9 pp 258-260
Materialist: position on the self, C9 P12 pp 80
‘Me’: as an activity through recognition, C19 P10 pp
129; as beyond the physical needs, C13 P9 pp
102-3; as destructive force, C9 P9 pp 78-79;
expansion of, versus forgetting, Q21 P5 pp 229-30;
functioning at different levels, C9 P14 pp 81; and
seeking a result, C16 P6 pp 113
Meaning: of life, Q36 pp 280-81
Meaning of life, Q36 pp 280-81
Meanness: dealing with, Q13 P8 pp 195
Meditation: and self-knowledge, Q19 P10-11 pp
219-221; as understanding, Q19 P8-9 pp 218-19
Meeting life: as a whole, C12 P1 pp 94
Memory (-ies), Q17 pp 209-13; as hindrance to
understanding what is, Q17 P4 pp 210-11; as
incomplete understanding, Q17 P2-4 pp 209-11;
and living in the present, Q17 P4 pp 210-11; and
meeting new challenge, Q17 P2-3 pp 209-10;
retention of, Q17 P2 pp 209-10; as strengthening
the ‘me’, Q17 P4 pp 210-11; as time, C20 P2 pp
131-32; Q17 P5 pp 211; two facets of, Q17 P2 pp
209-10
Metaphysics: as of no significance in understanding
what is, C8 P2 pp 71
Mind: as action, belief, knowledge, and experience,
C17 P3 pp 115-16; as belief and knowledge, C6
P12 pp 64-65; as dead centre, C13 P5 pp 100-101;
divides itself as high and low, C15 P7 pp 110; as
fear, C10 P7 pp 85; as frame, pattern, C10 P7 pp
85; function of, C17 pp 115-19; as instrument of
sensation, C13 P5 pp 100-101; C13 P9 pp 102-3; as
memory, Q17 P2 pp 209-10; any movement of,
strengthens the ‘me’, C9 P11 pp 80; as the past,
Q24 P4 pp 239; as the problem, Q21 P3 pp 228;
and process of thinking, C17 P2 pp 115; as process
of isolation, C17 P3-4 pp 115-16; as product of
time, C8 P7 pp 73
Misery: stopping, C1 P15 pp 25

Murder: and justification, Q1 P2 pp 145-46
Naming, Q27 pp 249-54; and experience, C9 P3 pp
76-77; and identification, Q27 P2 pp 249; versus
looking anew, Q27 P3 pp 249/P7 pp 251-52; and
the observer, thinker, Q27 P10-11 pp 252-53; as a
way of disposing of things, Q27 P3 pp 249-50
Nationalism, Q2 pp 148-9; and division, Q2 P3 pp
148-49; versus intelligence, Q2 P3 pp 148-49; as
process of isolation, C14 P6 pp 106; and self-
expansion, Q2 P3 pp 148-49
Nationalist: as a curse, C14 P6 pp 106
Needs: physical, C13 P9 pp 102-3
New: desire to experience, C21 P15 pp 142; and
emptiness, C21 P15 pp 142; versus knowledge, Q4
P6-7 pp 155-56; and the old, Q26 pp 246-48; as
something beyond sensation, C13 P9-10 pp 102-3;
and transformation, C21 P15 pp 141-42
New society, creating, Q1 P4 pp 147
Non-violence: practice of indicates conflict, C20 P4 pp
133-34
Observer and the observed: as result of naming, Q8 P7
pp 175-76
Observing oneself: through action, C7 P14 pp 70
Occupation: as based on envy, C3 P7 pp 36-37
Occupation of the mind, Q34 pp 275-76
Old and new, Q26 pp 246-48
Pain: cause of psychological, C10 P3 pp 83-84; and
suffering, Q7 pp 168-171
Passive awareness, C12 P6-12 pp 96-98; and
relationship, Q15 P5 pp 203-4; of the whole
process of consciousness, C12 P9 pp 96-97
Passivity: as direct action, C12 P4 pp 95
Past: definition of, psychologically, Q24 P3 pp 238
Peace: bringing about in the world, Q10 P7-8 pp
184-85
Perception: direct, C1 P4 pp 20; in the present, C1 P15
pp 25
Persuasion: in resisting self-centred activities, C19 P1
pp 126
Poor: necessity to be, in belief and knowledge, C9 P16
pp 82
Positive action, C9 P8 pp 78
Power: and fundamental change, C21 P11 pp 140; and
isolation, C14 P5 pp 106; and realization, C14 pp
136-42; as what each one wants, C14 P5 pp 106
Practice: and the piano, Q5 P11 pp 160
Prayer, Q19 P2-4 pp 216-17; and ‘inner voice’, Q19
P4 pp 217; and meditation, Q19 pp 216-221
Present: as passage of the past to the future, C20 P2 pp
131
Present crisis: Q1 pp 145-47; as the result of ideation,
the intellect, Q1 P2 pp 145-46; and sensate values,
Q1 P3 pp 145; as without precedent, Q1 P2 pp
145-46
Problem(s): as always new, C12 P9 pp 96-97; due to
fixed point of view, Q21 P2 pp 227-28; due to
superficiality, Q21 P2 pp 227-28; looking at
dispassionately, C12 P9 pp 96-97; need to approach
simply, C4 P1 pp 42; C11 P11 pp 92; as only
soluble through simplicity, C11 P7 pp 90-91; and
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the solution, C4 P1-2 pp 42-43; understanding, C3
P5 pp 35; of the world, C4 P1 pp 42
Psychological security: seeking destroys physical
security, Q10 P6 pp 182-83
Psychological time: as the product of the mind, C20 P2
pp 131-32
Purpose: of existence, Q37 P7 pp 284; of life, Q36
P2-3 pp 280-81; of our daily existence now, Q37
P3 pp 282-83
Quiet mind: as bringing transformation, C20 P5 pp
134; as not a result, C16 P9-10 pp 114; versus time,
C20 P5 pp 134; and understanding, Q5 P8 pp
159-60; and understanding problems, C16 P9 pp
114; C20 P5 pp 134
Quietness: on seeing the whole movement of the mind,
C9 P15 pp 81
Radical change, C21 P1-6 pp 136-38. See also Change
Reaction: as action as we know it, C7 P14 pp 70; as
experience, C9 P3 pp 76-77; as form of
conditioning giving continuity to the self, C17 P8
pp 118
Real, the: nearness of, C1 P13 pp 24
Realization: immediate, Q31 pp 267-70
Realized man, Q30 P2-4 pp 263-64; being with, Q30
P3 pp 263
Redemption: of mankind, C18 P1 pp 120
Regeneration: of the individual, Q1 P3 pp 146-47; as
today not tomorrow, C20 P6-7 pp 134-35
Reincarnation: reason for belief in, C10 P6 pp 84-85
Relationship, Q9 pp 177-81; basis of, C3 P8 pp 37; Q9
P2 pp 177; as challenge and response, Q9 P2 pp
177; and the family, Q9 P3 pp 177-78; and
isolation, C14 pp 104-7; and love, Q9 P7-9 pp
178-81; as means of gratification, C14 P4 pp 105;
Q9 P4-5 pp 178-79; as mirror in which you
discover yourself, C14 P2-3 pp 104-5; as the only
problem, C12 P9 pp 96-97; as process of building
resistance, C14 P4 pp 105-6; as process of self-
revelation, C14 P9 pp 107; Q9 P6 pp 179/P9 pp
180-81; real, Q9 P4 pp 178; understanding, Q3 P6
pp 151-52; used as means of achievement,
becoming, C14 P3 pp 104-5
Religious man: and simplicity, C11 P11 pp 92
Research: meaning of, C1 P1 pp 20
Responsibility: for transformation, C4 P2 pp 43
Revolution: bringing about, C1 P16 pp 25-6; C21 P7
pp 138; need for radical, Q38 P2-3 pp 285; as now,
not tomorrow, C1 P18 pp 27; C20 P6 pp 134-35;
versus process of time, C19 P8-9 pp 128-29; real,
C4 P3 pp 43; in society, C3 P10-14 pp 38-41; in
thinking, Q1 P4 pp 147; urgency of inward, C3 P5
pp 35-36
Right relationship: lack of, leads to conflict, C4 P3 pp
43
Salvation: See Individual salvation
Security: through isolation, C14 P4 pp 105-6; search
for, C18 P4-6 pp 121-22; seeking, C1 P9 pp 22-23
Seeing: the activity of the self, C16 P4 pp 112-13
Seeker: and deception, C18 P6 pp 122; understanding,
C2 P7 pp 30

Seeking, C2 pp 28-33
Self, C9 pp 76-82; absence of, C9 P10 pp 79;
definition of, C9 P1 pp 76; as evil, C9 P1 pp 76;
destroying, C17 P7 pp 117-18; forcing into a
corner, C9 P13 pp 80; freedom from, C10 P11 pp
87; materialist position on, C9 P12 pp 80; as
problem that thought cannot resolve, C16 P6 pp
113; religious people’s position on, C9 P12 pp 80;
seeing the whole process of, C9 P15 pp 81; as
strengthened by experience, C9-14 P2 pp 76-81;
understanding, C8 P12 pp 75; C9 P10 pp 79; C16
P4 pp 112-13; unfoldment of, Q15 P3 pp 202-3
Self-centred activity, C19 pp 126-130; consciousness
of, C19 P5 pp 127-28; freedom from, C19 P7 pp
128; as movement of time, C19 P6 pp 128; as only
action we know, C19 P1 pp 126; as recognition,
C19 P6 pp 128; understanding, C19 P2-4 pp
126-27
Self-contradiction: ending, Q29 P8-13 pp 260-62;
reasons for, Q29 P8-13 pp 260-62
Self-criticism, Q15 P3 pp 202-3
Self-deception, C18 pp 120-25; and desire to be, C18
P4 pp 121; fundamental factor of, C18 P6 pp 122;
interactive process of, C18 P3 pp 120-21; as
preventing love, C18 P8 pp 122-23
Self-fulfilment: as constant battle, struggle, C7 P10 pp
68-69; seeking, C7 P10 pp 68-69
Self-knowledge, C2 P8-14 pp 30-33; C4 pp 42-49; C8
P11-12 pp 75
Sensate values: and world crisis, Q1 P3 pp 146-47
Sensation: mechanical pursuit of, C13 P6 pp 101
Sensitivity: versus compulsion, Q5 P17 pp 163; and
simplicity, C11 P1-2 pp 88-89; C11 P6 pp 90; C11
P8 pp 91
Separation: versus co-operation, C17 P5 pp 117; as
function of the mind, C17 P5 pp 117; as our whole
tendency, C17 P4 pp 116-17
Sex, Q21 pp 227-31; as escape, Q21 P4 pp 228-29; as
only way of forgetting oneself, Q21 P4 pp 228-29;
is the problem the act or the thought? Q21 P4-5 pp
228-30
Shallow mind: ending of, Q33 P3-4 pp 273-74; as
escaping from what is, Q33 P3 pp 273
Silence: experience of, Q16 P8 pp 207-8
Simplicity, C11 pp 88-93; Q32 pp 271-72; and
conformity, C11 P6 pp 90; as freedom from beliefs,
C11 P4 pp 89; and humility, C11 P13 pp 93; as
inward freedom, C11 P3 pp 89; as not adjustment
to a pattern, C11 P2 pp 88-89; as not merely
outward expression, C11 P1-2 pp 88-89; and the
religious man, C11 P11 pp 92; through self
knowledge, C11 P7 pp 90-91; and sensitivity, C11
P1-2 pp 88-89; C11 P6 pp 90; C11 P8 pp 91; in the
total process of consciousness, C11 P8 pp 91
Society: defining, C1 P16 pp 26; as expression of what
I am, C1 P16-17 pp 26; as projection of ourselves,
C11 P4 pp 89
Sorrow: in the process of accumulating, C10 P3 pp
83-84
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Specialist(s): mentality of, C12 P8 pp 96; and the
realization of truth, C12 P8 pp 96
Specialization: and intelligence, C12 P7 pp 96
Spectator: to be merely a, C1 P8-9 pp 22
Starvation: problem of, C18 P12 pp 124
Spiritual entity: and dissolving the self, C9 P12-14 pp
80-81
Spiritual teacher(s), Q3 pp 150-53
Still mind, Q35 pp 277-79; as having no power to
create, C9 P15 pp 81; as the most active mind, Q35
P6 pp 278-79; as necessary for understanding, Q35
P2-4 pp 277-78; as not isolation, Q35 P6 pp
278-79; versus systems, Q35 P3 pp 277-78. See
also Stillness
Stillness: of the mind, Q35 pp 277-79
Strength of character: cause of, C9 P7 pp 78
Struggle: reasons for, C7 P10 pp 68-69
Stupidity: definition of, C3 P9 pp 38
Substitution: as a form of ignorance, Q2 P3 pp 148-49;
versus intelligence, Q2 P2-3 pp 148-49
Suffering, Q7 pp 168-171; as always in relation to
something, Q7 P6 pp 170; as disturbance, Q7 P3 pp
168; ending of, Q7 P7 pp 170-71; escape from, Q7
P2-5 pp 168-70; as ‘me’, Q7 P5 pp 169-70; and the
observer, Q7 P6-7 pp 170-71; significance of, Q7
P2-7 pp 168-171; word or actuality? Q7 P6 pp 170
Superficiality, Q33 pp 273-74, and dependence, Q33
P2 pp 273
Surrender: to what is, Q18 pp 214-15; to the ‘will of
God’, Q18 P2 pp 214
Survival: psychological, Q34 P3 pp 275-76
Symbol(s): and sensation, C13 P5 pp 100-101
System(s): for knowing oneself, C4 P9-10 pp 46-47; as
more important than man, C1 P10 pp 23
Thinker: as the old, Q26 P3 pp 246-47; and the
thought, C15 pp 108-110; tries to alter his thoughts,
C15 P4 pp 109
Thinker and the thought, C15 pp 108-110; division
between, C15 P4 pp 109; as false process, C15
P1-4 pp 108-9; and fundamental change, C21
P10-11 pp 139-41
Thinking: and isolation, C17 P3 pp 115-16; as leading
nowhere, C16 P8 pp 113-14; and problem solving,
C16 pp 111-114; and reactions, C17 P3 pp 115-16;
as reaction, C16 P3 pp 111-112; as verbalization,
Q27 P5 pp 250
Thinking out: every thought and feeling, Q26 P3-46 pp
246-48
Thought: as action, C5 P2 pp 50; versus awareness of a
fact in the present, C8 P10 pp 74-75; as
contradiction, C8 P8 pp 73-74; as distraction, C16
P9 pp 114; and ending itself, C17 P6-7 pp 117-18;
ending of, C16 P3 pp 111-112; C17 P7 pp 117-18;
as idea, opinion, judgement, comparison, C16 P9
pp 114; as process of search, C18 P4 pp 121; as
reaction, C17 P6 pp 117; as response of memory,
C5 P13-14 pp 53-54; as the result of time, C20 P2
pp 131; and seeing partially, C16 P4 pp 112;
understanding process of, C5 P13-14 pp 53-54
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Thought process: as based on becoming, C7 P14 pp projection of our daily life, Q10 P2 pp 182; and
70; as process of isolation, C17 P3 pp 115-16; C17 secondary benefits, Q1 P2 pp 145-46
P6-7 pp 117-18 Watchfulness: and fundamental change, C21 P11 pp
Time, C20 pp 131-35; Q24 pp 238-42; chronological 140; and recording process, Q5 P16 pp 162-3
and psychological, C20 P2 pp 131-32; creation of, Watching: oneself, C12 P3 pp 95; the unconscious,
C20 P2 pp 131-32; as defence mechanism, C20 P6 C17 P1 pp 115
pp 134-35; and psychological memory, C20 P2 pp What is: as not static, C1 P6 pp 21; reasons for wanting
131; and transformation, C20 pp 131-35; and to change, C20 P3 pp 132-33
transforming what is, C20 P3 pp 132-33; two types Wife: as prostitute, Q21 P5 pp 229-30
of, C20 P2 pp 131-32 Will: of action, C15 P2-3 pp 108; as action towards a
Timeless: and understanding time, C20 P1 pp 131 result, C5 P5 pp 51. See also Will of action; Will to
To be: is to be related, C4 P3 pp 43; Q9 P2 pp 177 be
Tomorrow: and the lazy mind, C1 P17 pp 26; as Will of action, C15 P2-3 pp 108; as always dualistic,
process of disintegration, Q1 P3 pp 146-47 C15 P3 pp 108
Transformation, Q38 pp 285-88; beginning of, C14 P8 Will to be: as the will to become, C5 P6 pp 51
pp 107; as love, Q38 P8-9 pp 287-88; as not an Word: going beyond, C18 P1 pp 120
end, a result, Q38 P7 pp 287; and time, C20 pp Words: repetition of, C1 P8 pp 22; using simple, C1 P2
131-35; ultimate versus moment-to-moment, Q38 pp 19
P4-6 pp 285-87; of the world through the World: catastrophe, C1 P7 pp 21; crisis, Q1 pp 145-47;
transformation of oneself, C4 P3-4 pp 43-44; C4 as relationship, C4 P3 pp 43
P14 pp 49 World peace: prevention of, C18 P14 pp 124-25
Triviality, Q34 pp 275-76 You are the world, C3 P7 pp 36-37; C4 P2 pp 42-43
Truth, Q3 P7-8 pp 152-53; cannot be experienced, C21
P16 pp 142; definition of, C6 P2 pp 57; and lie,
Q29 pp 258-62; man of, C9 P16 pp 82; perceiving
instantly, C1 P16 pp 25; projection of, C9 P6 pp
77-78; and the quiet mind, C18 P15 pp 125; and
recognition, C9 P6 pp 77-78; C9 P16 pp 82; and
self-projection, Q3 P7 pp 152; as uncharted sea, Q4
P7 pp 156
Unconscious, C17 P3 pp 115-16
Understanding: definition of, Q19 P9 pp 219; desire,
C13 P7 pp 101-2; fear of, C20 P6 pp 134-35; as not
of time, C1 P17 pp 26; problems, Q31 P2-7 pp
267-69; process of, Q15 P2 pp 201-2; relationship,
Q3 P6 pp 151-52; Q15 P2 pp 201-2/P4-5 pp 203-4;
as requiring passive mood, C12 P5 pp 95-96; state
of mind required for, Q24 P11 pp 241-42; truth,
Q31 P2-7 pp 267-69; of what is, C1 P6 pp 21; C4
P6-7 pp 45-46; C7 P5 pp 67; Q18 P3-4 pp 214-15
Understanding oneself, C2 P8-14 pp 30-33; C4 P2-14
pp 42-49; belief as hindrance to, C6 P3 pp 57-58;
and the deeper layers of consciousness, C12 P6 pp
96; as moment to moment, C4 P8 pp 46; C4 P14 pp
49; need for the intention to, C4 P3 pp 43-44; as
not a technique, C12 P3 pp 95
United Nations, C4 P2 pp 42
Unknown: and the known, Q4 P4 pp 155; Q28 pp
255-57; search for, Q28 P2-8 pp 255-57
Values: sensual, C1 P12-13 pp 24; true, C4 P3 pp 43
Virtue, C4 P5 pp 44-45; beginning of, C4 P5 pp 44-45;
conscious pursuit of, C19 P5 pp 127-28; as escape
from the self, C10 P9 pp 86; as freedom, Q5 P13
pp 161
Virtuous man: definition of, C9 P16 pp 82
Void: filling as process of our existence, C7 P11 pp 69;
of loneliness, Q6 P4 pp 166
War, Q10 pp 182-85; cannot bring peace, Q1 P2 pp
145-46; causes of, Q10 P5-6 pp 183-84; as