Word: adyar
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...adopted him, a pretty, tallow-colored stripling, in 1909. She had him educated privately in England and at the Sorbonne in France. Then she took him out among the Theosophists. At Adyar, India, on December 28th, 1925, he was lecturing to a very large audience under the Banyan Tree. He was concluding his lecture by speaking of the World Teacher, with the words, "He comes to those who want, who desire, who long, and-" a contraction passed over his body and a voice of penetrating sweetness rang through his lips. . . . "I come to those who want sympathy, who want happiness...
...They have four capital cities for their cult-Ommen, Adyar in India, Sydney in New South Wales and Ojai, a small town of Ventura County, Cal., near Los Angeles. †They count approximately 1,250,000 communicants. Catholics count more than 16,000,000, Methodists almost 9,000,000, Baptists 8,400,000, Presbyterians 2,500,000, Lutherans 2,500,000, Disciples of Christ 1,800,000 (TIME, April...
...that Dr. Besant in 1908 carried Mr. Krishnamurti from India to her English home is without foundation. Dr. Besant has been for many years a resident of India, and at that time was permanently residing at the headquarters of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras. Mr. Krishnamurti has been associated with Dr. Besant for many years, but his allegiance and friendship for her have been given as a natural tribute in recognition of her boundless services to the whole of mankind in addition to himself. To say that she carried him to England is to create an entirely false impression...
...makes it so," Mrs. Annie Besant, 'grand old lady of India" and moving spirit of the Order of the Star in the East (also called the Theosophical Society), wound up the celebration of that Order's 50th anniversary (TIME, Jan. 4) by exhorting a public gathering at Adyar (near Madras) to turn their thought toward the far Himalayan heights and beseech the world's Saviour (for her and her followers the Brahmin, Shri Krishna, of 500 B.C.) to hasten his reincarnation and the worlds salvation...