Rector, Rajghat Education Centre, Krishnamurti Foundation India, Varanasi 221001, India (Based on a talk delivered at the Krotona School of Theosophy, Ojai, California on May 17, 1994) I am thankful to the Theosophical Society of the Ojai Valley for inviting me to speak this evening on a question that has puzzled man from times immemorial. The ancient texts of every…