Theos-Talk Archives (September 1999 Message tt00147)

The following is from a letter lately received from an Indian
brother...[B.K. Lahiri] and is recommended to your attention as
independent evidence of the position of H.P.B. and the connection of the
Masters with the T.S.
                         Annie Besant, William Q. Judge

March, 1893.

                    THE LETTER

     K.B., a Brahman Yogi, recently went up to the Himalayas: on his way
down to Deccan, he was kind enough to stop at my place for some days...
     I must mention here also that this gentleman did not know much of
H.P.B. before nor of the Theosophical Society, and whenever I spoke to
him about them he used to say, as it were passively, that it was a good
work, no doubt, and that H.P.B. must have known the occult philosophy...
that whenever the Rakshasas [demons] became powerful some goddess is
sent to destroy them, and so she was sent to destroy the materialism of
the all-powerful western Rakshasas.
     However, now I shall relate what he told me when he came back from
the Himalayas.  The first thing he said was: "Go on! go on! go on!  Fit
yourself; you have much to do: go on, go on, and go on."
     The next thing he told me was, that this time he considered himself
thrice blessed by the sight of a Mahatma... in the snow- covered and
impassable cave of the Himalayas...
     The Mahatma, he said, he saw perfectly naked; that no living soul
could venture to look at his eyes; his color appeared to be of such a
peculiar hue that it is not like anything worldly, but when he touched
his hand (K.B.'s) between the third and fourth fingers, the latter could
not stand the electric shock that ran up to his head from the extreme
parts of his feet... He became almost unconscious, although he himself
is a real yogi of 22 years' standing... He said the body of the Mahatma,
though it looked like butter, proved to be hard as steel, and that it
was impossible for him to say of what it is made.  The Mahatma does not
speak, and with him only spoke where he could not make the latter
understand his thought perfectly well.  After he received his
instruction, whatever was necessary for him, he asked: "that in India
there they have established a society called the Theosophical Society,
and that Madame Blavatsky started it with Col. Olcott.  What is this?
Is there anything real in it?  Who was H.P.B.?  Was she a yogi?  Is Col.
Olcott a yogi?  What will be end of all this?  Is anybody to come in the
place of H.P.B.?  My certain friend B.K.L. who takes much interest in
the T.S. pressed me for the latter information."
     ...He said, "The T.S. was their work: it was established to change
the present current of the human mind and destroy Nastikism,
[materialistic atheism]... that he was present when H.P.B. was sent by
her Master from the Manasarovara Hills in Tibet... she was sent to carry
out the work of the Mahatmas; -- that she was very high up there is not
the least doubt, that he himself was one of the Circle, although not so
high as the Guru of H.P.B.; that Col. Olcott is a good man no doubt but
no yogi, he is entirely different from H.P.B. with whose name you cannot
mention Olcott.  That what was necessary was done by H.P.B. and the
Society is successful... that hitherto the T.S. followed a particular
line, but in India there should be a change in that line, but there will
be no change in the West, they must go on as they do now."
     Since the Svamiji has come back from the Himalayan Hills his ideas
about the T.S. and H.P.B. are entirely different; instead of passive
tolerance he simply says:
     "...Oh! I like to worship the portrait of H.P.B.; no one has done
so much good for humanity, especially for India, after Buddha and
Shankaracharya... The T.S. is ours, established for certain purposes by
our Mahatmas; go on and go on, work and work."
     ...I must tell you that the Svamji never knew any of these
informations about the T.S., the West, or H.P.B. before he went up to
the Hills.
     The Svamji showed me his hand where the Mahatma held it with his
two fingers -- there is the white sign of inflammation still existing,
and subsequently the skin was off from that place.
     These are the facts that are revealed to me... It appeared also
that the Svamji is the chela of one of the chelas or grand chelas of a
Mahatma of the Circle.
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Slightly abridged from ~Echoes of the Orient~ vol. III, 431-32.
Although posted before on this list, it has been a while and I am trying
to figure out how to email a WP 5.1 document via the new computer
system.

Nicholas Weeks <> nick.weeks@.att.net <> Los Angeles





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