This second Krishnamurti Diary has been one of his most popular books. It begins in 1973, and almost all entries begin with a description of nature, followed by a passage from his teaching, and always revealing the movement of his consciousness, day by day. In his own words:

«I wrote it as a diary while traveling ... but I did not write it to be published. In it I describe what I call "the process"; that is, my feeling of being out of the everyday world, of being completely at peace and away from conflict. This only happens once in a while and obviously it is impossible to describe it to someone who has not experienced it. But I have tried to put into words the pain and sensation that actually accompany that heightened state of consciousness. It does not serve a romantic purpose. If you lead a certain kind of disciplined and calm life, then you release a certain energy - that is a scientific fact - and this affects the non-mechanical part of the brain in such a way that one enters another dimension. The physical organism is unable to bear it and that is why pain is felt. I am not suggesting that everyone should try to come up with this, but some people who have been following my thoughts and ideas may find it interesting to know what is going on on a more personal level. " -From an interview in The Guardian

But not all the book are direct annotations by Krishnamurti, written in his own handwriting, for in 1982, when at the age of eighty-seven he wanted to resume his diary, he found the act of writing to be exhausting; hence he decided to accept the suggestion to dictate his perceptions to a tape recorder. Perhaps that is why in these pages the reader feels very close to Krishnamurti. The last passage, and perhaps the most beautiful, deals with death. It is the last time we will hear Krishnamurti speaking to himself. Two years later he died in the same bedroom of "La Cabaña de los Pinos".