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KRISHNAMURTI'S OPINION ON LEADBEATER AND BESANT'S TEACHINGS


 
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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