Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01343)

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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