Copyright © 1963 by Krishnamurti Foundation of America

Krishnamurti Foundation of America, P.O. Box 1560, Ojai, California, 93024; website: www.kfa.org; email: kfa@kfa.org

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Originally published in hardcover by Harper & Row in 1963.

Cover design by Mary Ann Casler

Interior design by Tona Pearce Myers

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Krishnamurti, J. (Jiddu), 1895–1986.

Life ahead : on learning and the search for meaning / J. Krishnamurti.—3rd pbk. ed.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN-13: 978-1-57731-517-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Conduct of life. 2. Sociology. I. Title.

BJ1581.2.K75 2005

181'.4—dc22

2005012961

First New World Library printing, September 2005

ISBN-13: 978-1-57731-517-9

ISBN-10: 1-57731-517-0

Printed in Canada on 100% postconsumer waste recycled paper

A proud member of the Green Press Initiative

Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West

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