Krishnamurti's Notebook

is a diary of 20th-century Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti (18951986). Written during , it was reputedly not intended for publication; the manuscript also became entangled in copyright and custody disputes. The diary was eventually published in 1976 over objections of Krishnamurti associates, and an expanded edition with additional material was published in 2003. The work one of the very few books Krishnamurti wrote himself has been noted for poetic and penetrating descriptions of nature, but is best known for its first hand accounts of persistent, unusual physical experiences and states of consciousness. It has been called "a remarkable mystical document" in press reports, while an authorized Krishnamurti biographer described it as containing "the whole essence" of his philosophy. About the work Krishnamurti's first entry in this handwritten journal, quoted above in its entirety, is dated with the location given as New York City. He continued writing almost daily for nine months while at various locales; there are about 200 entries in total, almost all of them between one and two print pages in length. The last entry is dated at Bombay (Mumbai). The published work is considered one of the few books that Krishnamurti actually wrote himself; the majority of his other books consist of edited or verbatim transcripts of talks, discussions and dictations, or are curated collections of excerpts from the same The diary portrays Krishnamurti's world from the inside; according to a commentator, it provides a "panorama of the landscape of Krishnamurti's daily consciousness. In particular, the diary describes Krishnamurti's experience of a nearly lifelong, often acutely painful condition he called , and manifestations of a state he refers to as a state that often, but not always, appeared concurrently with . As is the case with other Krishnamurti works, the entries often include his impressions of nature, individuals and society, the descriptions of which have a "poetic quality" according to