ADMIRATION TOWARDS BLAVATSKY BY AN INITIATE BRAHMIN

 

 

THE OPINION OF A HINDU ABOUT H.P.B.

 

[The subjoined paper was not published in January, because H.P.B. was the Editor of Lucifer; I print it here now, among the many testimonies to her great worth. — Ed.]

 

 

In perusing the article headed, ''The Theosophical Society and H.P.B.", by Mrs. A. Besant in the December number of Lucifer, I was struck with several things, and although I cannot fully express my mind on all that I think and know about the subject, I yet feel myself constrained to speak a few words on it.

 

There is not the least doubt that H.P.B. is a woman of mysterious and wonderful occult powers, and must have acquired them, I believe, with great, very great difficulty and drawbacks; for now-a-days it is very rare to find out, i.e., to recognize, a powerful Yogi in India, and especially to succeed in getting anything out of him; the more so by a woman born of Mlecha tribe. That, however, somehow or other — hew, it is more than I can say — she has succeeded in getting the key of the true Hindu and therefore of the subsequent Buddhistic Secret Philosophy, there can be no (Question, no doubt and no hesitation about it.

 

Those who really understand anything about the sublime and mysterious philosophy of the Hindus —including the Hindus themselves— can at once find out what she knows and what she is; it does not require the demonstration of her occult powers to convince such a person. A few words on the real point, nay, only one word and the sign of a particular place, and he knows at once what she is.

 

I am not known to the Theosophical Society in India, England, or America, although I know H.P.B. very well. I am not a Russian, an Englishman, or an American, and therefore I have no earthly reason to speak well or ill of a person, unless I am thoroughly convinced of the one thing or the other. Add to this the fact that I am a Hindu and a Brahmin of the high caste, and then you will be able to judge what motive can have actuated me, except truth, in speaking one word in favor of a person who, I must say, does not do justice to the philosophy of my ancestors, by revealing it to the Ausoon of the West, who are every inch Mlecha, in spite of all their vaunted civilization and modern science.

 

Those who call H.P.B. “a fraud" are much mistaken, they do not know her. I would be glad to give up everything I have in this world to become such a fraud, if anybody will come forward to teach me. Is it not sufficient for the Westerns to know that a proud Brahmin, who knows not how to bend liis body before any mortal being in this world, except his superiors in relation or religion, joins his hands like a submissive child before the white Yogini of the West?

 

Why so?

 

Because she is no longer a Mlecha woman; she has passed that stage; and every Hindu — the purest of the pure amongst the Brahmins — would be proud and delighted to call her Hindu and a mother — there is no doubt about it.

 

India cannot forget her, has not forgotten her, and the Hindus will, at no distant time, get their Yogini back to their house. They may be careless and ignorant, but they are certainly not ungrateful or faithless, like most of the civilized people of the West.

 

I am really very sorry for the conduct of some of my mistaken countrymen, during the Coulomb farce on the missionary stage in India, who for fear of disclosing the names of the Yogis to the people of the West, lost no time in concealing the fact, so as to make it appear that there were no real Yogis in India at all.

 

I myself certainly do not like the idea of publishing the Secret Philosophy of the East for the information of the people of the West, who have nothing but contempt and hatred for everything called Eastern, and especially Indian; there may be very, very few exceptions to these; but there is one consolation in this; that those books are dead letters for the Saheb loks unless fully explained, and H.P.B. is the only person who can explain them in the West. But I sincerely hope that she will not abuse her authority, unless with the consent of those from whom she received.

 

As a Brahmin, I would always object, and I consider it my duty to do so, to the publishing of the secret sublime Truths of my religion and ancestors, especially amongst the people whose food is beef, who drink spirituous liquors, and have beds composed of spring cushions made of down and feathers.*

 

It is very easy to envy the powers possessed by others, and to wish to possess the same; but it is very, very difficult to attain these, more difficult than I am able to express.

 

(* A true Hindu would never care for the Western civilization which, like an onion, only emits a strong smell of a peculiar kind, too much provocative of passion, and discloses no substance when the several skins are taken off.)

 

Rai B. K. Laheri, F.T.S.

 

 

(This article was published in Lucifer magazine, June 1891, p.309-311; and later in the book HPB: in memory of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, 1891, p.45-47)