U. G. Krishnamurti

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U. G. Krishnamurti
Born	Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (1918-07-09)9 July 1918 Machilipatnam, Madras Presidency, British India
Died	22 March 2007(2007-03-22) (aged 88) Vallecrosia, Italy
Education	University of Madras (Bachelor's Degree)
Occupation	Philosopher
Children	4
Notable ideas	The natural state (see Post-calamity)
Website	ugkrishnamurti.net

Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (9 July 1918 – 22 March 2007) was a philosopher and orator who questioned the state of spiritual liberation. Having pursued a religious path in his youth and eventually rejecting it, U.G. claimed to have experienced a devastating biological transformation on his 49th birthday, an event he refers to as "the calamity". He emphasized that this transformation back to "the natural state" is a rare, acausal, biological occurrence with no religious context. Because of this, he discouraged people from pursuing the "natural state" as a spiritual goal.^[1]

He rejected the basis of thought and in doing so negated all systems of thought and knowledge. Hence he explained his assertions were experiential and not speculative – "Tell them that there is nothing to understand."

He was unrelated to his contemporary Jiddu Krishnamurti, although the two men had a number of meetings because of their association with the Theosophical Society^[2] and U.G. has, at times, referred to him as "[his] teacher" in spite of having ultimately rejected said teachings as well as the idea that anything could or should be taught in any spiritual context.