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About KFI Cuttack Centre
Krishnamurti Foundation India, Cuttack Centre (KFICC) is situated in the city of Cuttack, in Odisha, India. It was affiliated to Krishnamurti Foundation India (KFI) in 2003. Prior to that, since 1979, it functioned under the name, Self Education Trust (SET).
Ever since its formation, it has aimed to awaken the human mind to a quintessential question: ‘What are you doing with your life?’ The question contains the flame of its own inquiry. In its entirety, KFICC intends to keep alight that flame of exploration through dissemination of the teachings of J. Krishnamurti.
What Are You?
Have you found out what you are?
What are you? You are the property, the bank account, the furniture, the carpet, ideas, quarrels, pleasures, despairs, the agony of one’s own life, the contradiction, revolt, discontent, longing for something beautiful to happen. It is a life so lonely, isolated, in which there is no relationship at all, in which there is no love, no beauty, no vastness, no space.
That is what you are, and you want that to go on, and you will go on if you think it is worthwhile. What is immortality then, and what is innocence? Can the mind that goes on in routine, weariness, despair, loneliness, with all the misery and confusion, be innocent? Can such a mind be immortal? Is mortality only in the field of memory?
Public Talk 5 in Amsterdam, 14 May 1969
Our Events
KFICC has an operational office with a Study Centre, a full-fledged reading library (with Krishnamurti books and their Odia translations, relevant videos and audios), an auditorium, and facilities for Study Centre guests, audio video programs, online and in-person dialogues, as well as interactive activities conducted by KFICC.
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Odia Publications
The state of Odisha was formed in 1936, with a majority of inhabitants speaking Odia as their first language. Odia is also the official state language of Odisha. The city of Cuttack, was the former capital of Odisha before Bhubaneswar was declared to be the state capital. The city is more than a thousand years old and the second largest city in the state of Odisha. Late Jaya Kishore Patnaik, the founder of Self Education Trust (which later became a part of Krishnamurti Foundation India) felt the necessity of introducing Krishnamurti teachings to the people of Odisha in Odia language. With this vision, he initiated a humongous and on-going process of translating original K books into Odia. Two initial translators who set the ball rolling were late Basanta Kumari Patnaik and Ms. Punya Prava Patnaik. Basanta Kumari, who was an eminent writer of her times, gave up on her fictional writing career to give herself over totally to the translation of K literature. Together, the sisters translated about thirty books and booklets before others joined them in the process.
The first K book to be translated in Odia is ‘Ei Je Sanskruti’ (This Matter of Culture) and it was printed for sale and circulation in 1975. Today, more than forty books and booklets have been translated and new books are being translated on a regular basis.
Dive into Krishnamurti’s Teachings
In an era dominated by external influences and conditioned thinking, Krishnamurti’s insights offer a fresh perspective on life, freedom, and self-awareness. He invites us to question our own minds, uncover our fears, and break free from the psychological conditioning that limits us. His teachings remain as relevant today as ever, helping individuals live with clarity, intelligence, and deep compassion.
Lets Find Out !
If one is to find out what freedom is, one must question everything, question every institution – family, religion, marriage, tradition, the values that society has imposed upon us, education, the whole structure of social and moral organisation. But one questions not to discover what is true, but to find a way out, and therefore we are never psychologically free.
Let's have a Dialogue!
“A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continues till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms. If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality which thought can never reach. It is not a dialectical investigation of opinions, ideas, but rather exploration by two or many serious, good brains.”
– J Krishnamurti
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