Padmanabhan Krishna

Modern education, writes Professor Padmanabhan Krishna — physicist and Trustee of the Krishnamurti Foundation India — produces sharp minds and minds blind to themselves. Drawing on his scientific training and nearly three decades in the orbit of J. Krishnamurti, the philosopher whose dialogues with the celebrated physicist David Bohm were later published as the book "The Ending of Time," Krishna argues that humanity’s outer scientific ambitions and its inner hunger for wisdom have been falsely severed. From Galileo’s persecution to the hardening of institutional religion, he traces how this rift opened — and sets it against older traditions of inquiry: the Buddha, Socrates, and the Upanishads. His central claim is unsparing: science and spirituality are not rivals but twin investigations into two dimensions of reality, and recovering their unity may be the only honest response to the fractured modern mind.