Theos-Talk Archives (February 2011 Message tt00121)

The other reference I have seen about Master Narayan (aka Rishi Agastya) was
Geoffrey Hodson's discussions with Shri Shankaracharya of the Conjeevaram
Mutt near Chennai.

HPB had commented that many of the heads of the Mutts established by Shri
Shankaracharya are Initiates and I think that may have been the motivation
for Hodson to make the inquiry.

Obviously, some of the spiritual leaders in South India have some knowledge
of this Master, but they do not talk about it publicly and who knows where
He is currently living.

Hodson's account may have been discussed before on theos-talk; but I have
the complete text of what Hodson wrote and will try to post soon.

MKR



On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Govert Schuller <schuller@FKCegizD5xyOv0LRwENtFTlIth-T6WuEDiFr4i4T0lOt5MkJLz10u9sTjPsExsFDwWudnYV2Qf5sA78VVw.yahoo.invalid>wrote:

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> Naperville, February 27, 2011
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> Recently the following communication was published by Theosophical History:
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> "Communication: Jean Overton Fuller's Response to Govert Schuller Regarding
> the Krishnamurti-Scott-Anrias Issue."
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> In the summer of 2006 I discussed with some Theosophical friends the paper
> on Narayan on which I was working then (1). As we knew that Jean was getting
> frail we came to the conclusion that it would be fair to send her my draft
> in order for her to be able to respond if she so wished. At that moment the
> basic argument of the paper, i.e. that Narayan could not be identified with
> Nagaratnaswami, was already fully formulated and argued. She promptly sent
> me a rejoinder dated August 12, 2006, with the request to have it published
> with the paper.
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> Continued:
> http://www.alpheus.org/html/communications/scott_anrias/Fuller2.htm
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> 1. [Editor's Note: The article appeared in Theosophical History, Vol. XIV,
> No. 1-2 (Jan.-Apr. 2008): 11-46.]
> See: http://www.alpheus.org/html/articles/scott_anrias/NarayanArticle.htm
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> Summary:
> The focus is on a relatively unknown Theosophical master who was known to
> H.P. Blavatsky and H.S. Olcott under the name of Narayan. Around 1910 some
> Theosophists in Adyar thought they had met this master in the person of a
> blind yogi named Nagaratnaswami in the little village of Tiruvallam about 70
> miles west from Madras. Almost a 100 years later Jean Overton Fuller in her
> biography on Krishnamurti revived this claim in the context of an extended
> and open discussion she and I conducted about the Theosophical writers Cyril
> Scott and David Anrias, who both provided very critical Theosophical
> assessments of Krishnamurti.
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