Ug krishnamurti biography samples

Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (9 July 1918 – 22 March 2007)

“The greatest living Yogi I have ever met,” Krishnamacharya said of UG Krishnamurti. The fact that Krishnamacharya recognised U.G.’s realization of Yoga is profoundly significant.

Krishnamacharya, who was deeply informed of humankind’s wisdom traditions from primordial to modern times, considered U.G. a living example of Yoga, of which there are very few.

U. G. Krishnamurti - Wikipedia

U.G. brought clarity to the heart of yoga.

Raised by a philosophical grandfather who was deeply involved in the Theosophical society, as a young man U.G. became a spiritual seeker for many years. He studied with Sivananda for seven years (until he found him hypocritically eating banned pickles in the cupboard in the middle of the night).

He visited sages such as the great Ramana Maharishi, but was unimpressed by religious models that posed that some people were enlightened and others weren’t, which he later called “the socia