- John Levy (philosopher)
John Levy was a British mystic, artist, and musician, best known for translating the works of his
guru Krishna Menon into English.Personal life
Born into a wealthy aristocratic family, Levy was an expert in Asian
folk music , especially that ofIndia . At one point in his life, he gave up his entire fortune and went to live in India with only a loincloth. [ [http://www.ods.nl/am1gos/am1gos5/index.html?jl_vriend_us.html~mainFrame Welkom bij Amigo5 over leraarzijn ] ]Philosophy
In India, Levy was a student of Krishna Menon, from whom he learned the
Advaita Vedanta . In The Nature of Man According to the Vedanta, Levy expounds a classicnondualist argument about breaking down subject-object duality and the implications of this on the notion of the self. The Self, he says, can never be fully known, as to know it is to objectify it. Freed from the notion of a Self, we can stop trying to alter ourselves and enter into the stream of experience without hesitation.Books
*The Nature of Man According to the Vedanta (1956), Sentient Publications, 2004, ISBN 1-59181-024-8
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