When
Krishnamurti was 32 years old, he claimed that he had never read a theosophical
book.
In this
regard the biographer Gregory Tillet wrote:
« After the Ommen Star Camp which
took place on August 1, 1927, Krishnamurti went to Switzerland, then to Paris
and finally to London to be on the birthday of Mrs. Besant (who was born on
October 1, 1847).
She was
upset by some stories that had reached to her ears, as it was said that after
the Ommen Star Camp meeting, Krishnamurti had said that he had never read a
"theosophical" book in his life because he could not understand the
jargon in which it was written. »
(The
Elder Brother, p.228)
I put the
adjective “theosophical” in quotation marks because in reality at this time the
real theosophy had been thrown into a corner and what predominated in the Theosophical
Society Adyar (and continues to predominate) is the version all distorted and
full of errors that Leadbeater invented.
And Mrs.
Besant can get angry all she wants, but history shows that what Krishnamurti
asserted was true since he never spoke, either in his lectures or in his books,
about the Neo-theosophy that Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater they had
taught.
Later among
the ardent followers of Krishnamurti was Professor P. Krishna who was Rector of
the Rajghat Education Center of the Krishnamurti Foundation in India, and
nephew of the former president of the Theosophical Society Adyar, Mrs. Radha
Burnier (1923-2013).
Mr. Krishna
related a dialogue that Krishnamurti had with a friend about the education he
received from Leadbeater and Besant.
« A man once told Krishnamurti that
he was very fortunate to have been brought in the Theosophical Society with
great instructors like Charles Leadbeater and Annie Besant, to which
Krishnamurti replied:
-
"Yes, I was very
fortunate to have teachers like them."
Then
the man said:
- “We are not so lucky since we are going through ordinary institutions. How can we come upon truth? "
And
Krishnamurti replied:
-
"Sir, I was lucky because whatever they told me went into one ear and
out of the other."
»
(This
is an excerpt from the article entitled "Krishnamurti as I Met Him" which
was first published in Theosophist
magazine in May 1997, and is based on a talk Professor Krishna gave in November
1996 at the Lodge of Adyar, in Madras, India.)
This answer
clearly expresses the opinion that Krishnamurti had towards Leadbeater and
Besant's teaching, and although Professor Krishna develops in his article an
artificial and "politically correct" interpretation of Krishnamurti's
words, we know that Krishnamurti actually repudiated the Neo -theosophy of
Leadbeater and Besant, as their own acts prove it.
He had no
admiration for the Pseudo-Theosophical-Christian doctrine fabricated by the
leaders of the Adyar Society.
CONCLUSION
Krishnamurti despised pseudo-theosophy, not because he
knew it was a fraudulent teaching, but because he did not interest it, he did
not care about it, and he did not want to know anything about it.
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