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J.
Krishnamurti
(1895-1986, India)
Biography Excerpt:
Jiddu Krishnamurti was born in Madanapalle, a small village in South India. His parents were middle-class Brahmins. The boy’s father was a District Magistrate and member of the Theosophical Society. His loving mother cared for him and his brother Nitya until her death when Krishnamurti was 10. At this time his father retired from the government and worked for the Theosophical Society in Madras. There Krishnamurti was discovered by C.W. Leadbeater and Mrs. Annie Besant, the head of the society. Believing he was to be the vehicle for the World Teacher, Lord Maitreya, Leadbeater took on the task of educating the boy, teaching him appropriate behavior and making him a fit instrument for his later work.
Enlightenment Story Excerpt:
Well, since August 3rd, I meditated regularly
for about thirty minutes every morning. I could, to my astonishment, concentrate
with considerable ease, and within a few days I began to see dearly where
I had failed and where I was failing. Immediately I set about, consciously,
to annihilate the wrong accumulations of the past years. With the same
deliberation I set about to find out ways and means to achieve my aim.
First I realized that I had to harmonize all my other bodies with the Buddhic
plane [the highest plane of consciousness] and to bring about this happy
combination I had to find out what my ego wanted on the Buddhic plane.
To harmonize the various bodies I had to keep them vibrating at the same
rate as the Buddhic, and to do this I had to find out what was the vital
interest of the Buddhic. With ease which rather astonished me I found the
main interest on that high plane was to serve the Lord Maitreya and the
Masters. With that idea clear in my physical mind I had to direct and control
the other bodies to act and to think the same as on the noble and spiritual
plane. During that period of less than three weeks, I concentrated to keep
in mind the image of the Lord Maitrcya throughout the entire day, and I
found no difficulty in doing this. I found that I was getting calmer and
more serene. My whole outlook on life was changed.