Authentic reports of public talks and discussions held in 1970 in Santa Monica, San Diego, London, Brockwood Park (England) and Rome.

Violence ‘is like a stone dropped in a lake: the waves spread and spread; at the centre is the “me”. As long as the “me” survives in any form, very subtly or grossly, there must be violence’, says Krishnamurti in these talks and discussions which, apart from dealing with the problem of individual and collective violence, also contain frequent references to what is and what is not the religious mind.