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...Jiddu Krishnamurti, doe-eyed Brahmin-born Hindu, was pounced upon in Adyar, Madras 27 years ago by Mrs. Annie Besant and Rev. Charles Lead-beater, famed Theosophists. They declared that the 12-year-old moppet was "the Vehicle of the new World Teacher, the Lord Maitreya," whose last incarnation on earth was Jesus Christ. Calmly accepting this announcement, Krishnamurti grew up under their tutelage, became head of their Order of the Star in the East. In 1929, however, he disappointed his disciples by renouncing the Godship they had imposed upon him. Still a practicing Theosophist seer who affects soft, open...
...knows Mrs. Besant as sponsor of Jiddu Krishnamurti, much-touted Theosophist Messiah, who recently went back on his backers by announcing that organization is wrong, individuality best. An apocryphal story (which Biographer Williams does not include) tells how Mrs. Besant tried to get Krishnamurti into Oxford. Applying first to the Warden of New College (the late famed Canon William Archibald Spooner), she described her charge as an incarnation of God. The Warden blenched, categorically refused to admit such a Presence, which might prove embarrassing to the other undergraduates. The Master of Balliol shook his head regretfully, said they...
...Jiddu, Indian locality where he was born "30 or 35 years...
...combined talent of six despairing Boston newspaper men, aided by a CRIMSON reporter, failed to derail the philosophical train of Jiddu Krishnamurti's thought and elicit from him much specific comment on the troubled land of his birth. In his suite at the Ritz-Carlton the well-known spiritual teacher and Y. Prasad, his Indian aide, tallsed freely and in perfect English of the characteristics of the ideal man of the future, but felt that there was not sufficient evidence at hand on which to base a comment on the Russian religious situation, and expressed more concern for the spiritual...
...Although Jiddu refuses to talk on temporal matters, the recent visit of the religious leader to Boston stimulates discussion on the pending crisis in India as well as on the whole question of self-government. India is at the rebellion point; but it is a rebellion, typically oriental, that instead of rising to a boil congeals to passive and all-expanding ice. It is a rebellion typically modern in that it aims to force the English out of the government by forcing them out of business. Above all it is a rebellion intensified by the personality of Mahatma Gandhi with...