Word: besant
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There developed a gulf between myself and the speaker. As far as I knew he was a marked man, chosen at a tender age by a sect of mystics to become a saint. He had been proclaimed the Messiah (by one Mrs. Annie Besant), but refused to play the role out of humility. Perched on one side of his chair, his legs glued together at the knees and the ankles, he looked as if he were squeezing over to make room for a bigger man. Definitely monk material, I decided...
Krishnamurti, who had been identified as the Messiah by a Mrs. Annie Besant, has repudiated the distinction...
...mystical melange of occultism, universal brotherhood, pantheism, including a Hindu-style belief in reincarnation. Mrs. Besant held that in an earlier existence she was King of north and south India...
...reluctant to talk about his youth. "I have no past, have no journals or diaries. When I die, I want to leave nothing behind." Son of a lawyer, he was sent at the age of 15 to the theosophical institute in Madras run by Mrs. Annie Besant, the eccentric Englishwoman who was an early agitator for Indian home rule, a prominent member of the theosophy movement** and in 1917 president of the Congress Party. Theosophy did not appeal to young Menon. Says he: "This world has too many problems to think of the other world...
...became a leader of the Indian boy scout movement, in 1924 went to England for six months as secretary to one of Mrs. Besant's assistants. He stayed for 28 years. Says Menon: "I survived England somehow or other." He studied under Socialist Harold Laski at the London School of Economics, was later admitted to the bar. But Menon found his real calling when he joined the India League, an unofficial propaganda organization aimed at converting the British to Indian home rule...