Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01319)

Dear Friends, 
 
This is about the death of a  young man who said the truth about the booklet ?At the Feet of the Master?.  
 
The episode is narrated by the ex-international secretary of the Adyar Society,  Ernest Wood.     
 
In 1910-1911, Mr.  Subrahmanyam was  a distinguished young Adyar Theosophist when he personally witnessed a conversation between the boy  Jiddu Krishnamurti and his father; and he later  reported it to his close friend Ernest Wood.   
 
The  topic was the real  authorship of  ?At The Feet of the Master?, and Wood  writes, referring to Subrahmanyam:    
 
?He said that when questioned by his  father in his presence Krishnamurti had said in Telugu: ?The book is not mine; they fathered it on me?. 
 
As soon as the  all-powerful Mrs. Annie Besant knew about that,  she called Subrahmanyam to her. She told him that  it was absolutely ?not possible? that Krishnamurti had said such a thing;   and, in Wood?s words, Besant  ?presented him with the alternative  of recantation  or banishment from Adyar?.   
 
That  was a deep lesson about  the  real meaning of the expression  ?liberty of  thought? in Adyar in those days.   
 
In spite of all pressure, Subrahmanyam stood  firm and  did not recant.  He had to leave Adyar.  He returned to his native town, and Wood tells us that he ?died there shortly afterwards, while still himself little more than a boy?. (1)  
 
As to ?At the Feet of the Master?, it  was never included among Krishnamurti?s works.  Krishnamurti Foundations do not sell it. 
 
Yet its ?authorship? is still nominally ascribed to ?Alcyone?, a word which is the fancy name that Leadbeater created for Krishnamurti in his phantasy-book ?The Lives  of Alcyone?.   As we know, ?The Lives  of Alcyone? is  now  abandoned and ?forgotten?  by Adyar TPH,  because  its content is, let?s say, far worse than useless.  
 
Thus we see that Subrahmanyam was heavily punished by Besant for speaking the truth in a Society whose motto is ?there is no religion higher than truth?. 
 
May the good Karma Law work  its way well.  And may those all who plant harvest according to the One Good  Law of Justice and Equilibrium!  
 
Best  regards,    Carlos. 
 
 
NOTE: 
 
(1)  ?Is This Theosophy??, Ernest Wood,    London: Rider & Co., Paternost House, E.C., reprinted by Kessinger Publishing,LLC, 318 pp., see p.  163. 
 
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