REMINISCENCES OF BLAVATSKY BY HARI RAO

 

T. Hari Rao was a member of the Theosophical Society Adyar and this text is part of a lecture delivered at the Blavatsky centenary birth celebration at Adyar, 12 August, 1931.

 

 

Some forty-five years ago, please go with me to Triplicane. There in the premises now kept by the Kellett School, there is a big Hall which is now almost as then. It was the Head­quarters of the Madras Theosophical Society. I will describe one day’s meeting.

 

Just where we enter, there was a big sofa, rather low. To our left, sat H.P.B.; and on the right Dewan Ragoonath Row. Other prominent citizens of the time were there. In her jerky way, she used to give comments. This I remember well: that she dwelt upon the absolute necessity of India’s regeneration and upon the revival of Sanskrit learning. I used to harp upon this theme, but nobody would take it up.

 

At Convention, there were Damodar and Dharbhagiri Nath in their fantastic dress, got up so queerly; Colonel dressed as a Kashmiri Brahman; H.P.B. in one corner with a group talking about the regeneration of India. With H.P.B. one realized that there was much in her teachings of which one was ignorant, and to which she opened our eyes.

 

(Theosophist, October 1931, p.54-55)