Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00604)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "kpauljohnson <kpauljohnson@y...>" 
<kpauljohnson@y...> wrote:
> Perhaps the attitude of superiority of Kashmiri and Punjabi light 
> skinned Indians towards darker South Indians might figure into 
HPB's 
> Aryanism. Maybe the readiness of 20th century Indians to accept 
the 
> Kashmiri Nehru-Gandhi dynasty had something to do with this same 
> Aryanism. Yet the dynasty that has been leading the Theosophical 
> movement through most of the 20th century has been South Indian, as 
> was Krishnamurti.

Wasn't Subba Rao of south Indian origin?

> That ignores the crucial, and hidden-in-plain-sight case of Swami 
> Dayananda Sarasvati. (And her mythologizing his disciple Shyamaji 
> Krishnavarma in letters to her aunt in Russia.) But after being 
> publicly *disowned* by the Master she came to India to publicly 
> serve, she was not likely to make the same mistake again. 
> Mythologizing her other and later mentors protected her from any 
such 
> embarrassments down the road.

That is an ingenious theory. What do you make of the fact that she 
concealed her association with P.B. Randolph's organization, while at 
the same time copying from his stuff? I mention this because it was 
while she was still in New York, before the breakup with Dayananda. 
You may remember that the Randolph association is hotly and 
disingenuously denied by Fundamemtalists today, as evidenced by the 
enormous amount of outraged fustian that apeared on this site.

One other point of interest is that Blavatsky identified herself as 
Buddhist while she was still in New York. That suggests she already 
had an Oriental preceptor in addition to Randolph but there is no 
evidence she knew anything of consequence about Buddhism at he time.