The story of Krishnamurti is one of the most fascinating stories in the last 2,000 years. The reason I say this is that it was 2000 years ago that Jesus was overshadowed by the Lord Maitreya, the Planetary Christ. It was Krishnamurti’s destiny for approximately 20 years of his life to be the next initiate to perform this service for the Lord Maitreya again, 2000 years after the life of Jesus.
As fate would have it, he chose not to do this after going through all the training and guidance of C.W. Leadbeater, Annie Besant and the Theosophical Society. He chose to follow his own path separate from this function and separate from the Theosophical Society. His story is a fascinating one and I bring it to you now in its essential nature.
Krishnamurti was born on May 11, 1895, in Madanapalle India. He was born into a strictly vegetarian Brahmin family. Interestingly enough, his father was a worshiper of Krishna and a member of the Theosophical Society. His mother had a psychic premonition that her eighth child, Krishnamurti, was to be remarkable in some way and insisted that he be born in the puja (prayer and meditation) room. On his birth, an astrologer did his horoscope and said that he was destined to be a great man. As Krishnamurti grew there developed a great bond between his younger brother Nitya and himself. Krishnamurti seemed to be more of a right brain child and Nitya more bright and clever and more of a left brain child. Even as a youth he had some clairvoyant abilities for he often saw a dead girl at a special place in his garden.
It was in 1909 that Krishnamurti’s father had moved to the Theosophical complex in India to take a job and brought Krishnamurti and his brothers with him. When Charles Leadbeater first saw Krishna, he said that he had one of the most wonderful aura’s he had even seen, without a particle of selfishness in it. He predicted that Krishnamurti would one day become a great spiritual teacher. This amazed one of the Theosophical teachers, because having worked with Krishnamurti on his homework, he considered him particularly stupid.
Leadbeater began to meet with Krishnamurti and clairvoyantly write down all his past lives. The name Leadbeater gave Krishnamurti throughout all his past lives was "Alcyone". It was Leadbeater who went on to predict that Krishnamurti would be the next great world teacher who would be the initiate through which the Lord Maitreya would use for His reappearance into the world.
This blew people’s minds, because, not only was Krishnamurti not very bright, but he was scrawny, undernourished, covered with mosquito bites, lice in his eyebrows, crooked teeth, and not very attractive physically. The people in the Theosophical Society who knew Krishnamurti at this young age would have predicted that he was the least likely to have any kind of spiritual mission at all. Leadbeater was adamant in his belief, however.
Krishnamurti was in such bad shape on all levels that even Krishnamurti admitted later in his life that, had Leadbeater not discovered him, he would have certainly died.
Leadbeater said that the Master Kuthumi had directed him to train Krishnamurti for his future destiny. Leadbeater had actually chosen another boy for this great mission by the name of Hubert, from Chicago, who was fourteen years old at the time, but changed his mind about him after meeting Krishnamurti.
Krishnamurti refused to do anything without his brother Nitya, so they began to be trained together. Four tutors were provided to the boys as well as Leadbeater. Krishnamurti had a bad habit of staring off into space and leaving his mouth open, and no matter how many times reminded not to do this, he still would. One day Leadbeater slapped him on the chin and Krishnamurti finally stopped, however, later in life he said their relation-ship was never the same after this.
Shortly after this, Leadbeater took Krishnamurti and Nitya in their astral bodies while they physically slept, to the house of Master Kuthumi in Tibet where they were initiated at that time. It was at this time that they were placed on the "Path of Probation", the first initiatory step before the path of initiation.
For the next five months, Leadbeater took Krishnamurti every night for fifteen minutes to Kuthumi’s house for instruction. Every morning Krishnamurti would write down what he remembered. This later became his famous first book called, "At the Feet of the Master", which, in reality are channelings of the Master Kuthumi.
It was later that year that Krishnamurti first met Annie Besant, the President of the Theosophical Society and was the beginning of an undying love between them.
Leadbeater received guidance from Master Kuthumi that he was going to accept Krishnamurti as his disciple and requested that Krishnamurti, Annie Besant and Leadbeater all be present in their astral bodies the following night. Leadbeater and Krishna remained out of their bodies for two nights and a day, coming back only occasionally for some warm milk.
Krishna later said that El Morya was there with the three of them and they all went to Lord Maitreya’s house. It was then that Krishna was welcomed officially into the Great White Brotherhood. The next night he was taken to see the Planetary Logos, Sanat Kumara. Krishna described Him, in Mary Lutyen’s book, "Krishnamurti, His Life and Death", in the following manner; "It was the most wonderful experience of all for he is a boy not much older than I am, but the handsomest I have ever seen, all shining and glorious, and when he smiles it is like sunlight. He is strong like the sea, so that nothing can stand against him, and that he is nothing but love, so that I could not be the least afraid of him."
In 1911 Leadbeater and Annie Besant started an organization called the "International Order of the Star", and Krishna (Krishnamurti) became its leader. The purpose of this organization was to prepare the world for the coming of the World Teacher. Krishnamurti’s training was intensified. His clairvoyance had continued into adulthood for on one occasion described seeing nature spirits in the garden.
Meanwhile Leadbeater had compiled all of Krishna’s past lives in a book called, "The Lives of Alcyone". Krishna had been enrolled in a special high school to prepare him to go to London University, however, on three different occasions couldn’t pass his final exams. He finally gave up on college.
In Mary Lutyen’s book, Leadbeater is said to have received a message from Kuthumi for Krishnamurti that stated; "Of you two, we have the highest hopes. Study and widen yourself, and try more and more to bring the mind and brain into subservience to the true self within. Be tolerant of divergencies of view and of method, for each has usually a fragment of truth concealed somewhere within it, even though often times it is distorted almost beyond recognition. Seek for that tiniest gleam of light amid the stygian darkness of each ignorant mind, for by recognizing and fostering it you may help a baby brother."
Krishnamurti had passed the second initiation and was moving strongly towards the third initiation when one night, while sitting under the tree outside, he had a visitation from the Lord Maitreya. One of the women of the Theosophical Society witnessed the event and was greatly moved.
This began a whole strange phase of Krishnamurti’s life where the masters began working on his physical body in trying to electrically get it prepared for inhabitation by the Lord Maitreya. The Masters would come and take Krishna, in his soul body and consciousness, and travel to other dimensions. Krishna’s body was left vacant except for what is referred to as the body elemental. This is like a sub-personality that is very childlike that takes care of the physical vehicle even though the incarnated personality is soul traveling.
While the Masters worked on the physical body to try and electrical rewire it and prepare it for the supremely high vibration of the Lord Maitreya, the physical body and body elemental went through enormous physical pain and suffering. The body elemental would cry and speak like a child while it went through this suffering every night.
This process seemed to go on intermittently for almost two years. The pain was almost unbearable at times. "In essence, Krishnamurti was having major surgery on his metaphysical and spiritual bodies, in a most intensive fashion. Krishna was told by the Masters that it was the first time in the history of the world that such an experiment was being carried out in this manner.
When the process finally stopped he received a message from the Lord Maitreya which stated, "Learn to serve me, for along this path alone you will find me. Forget yourself, for only then am I to be found. Do not look for the Great Ones when they may be very near you. You are like the blind man who seeks sunshine, you are like the hungry man who is offered food and will not eat. The happiness you seek is not far off. It lives in every common stone. I am there if you will only see. I am the helper if you will let me help."
During this period Krishna had an experience that was quoted in Mary Lutyen’s book from Krishnamurti. "On the first day while I was in that state and more conscious of the things around me, I had the first most extraordinary experience. There was a man mending the road. That man was myself. I also could feel and think like the road mender and I could feel the wind passing through the tree, and the little ant on the blade of grass I could feel. The birds, the dust, and the very noise were a part of me. Just then there was a car passing by at some distance. I was the driver, the engine, and the tires. As the car went further away from me, I was going away from myself. I was in everything, or rather everything was in me. I was inanimate and animate, the mountain, the work, and all breathing things. All day long I remained in this happy condition." To show how far this process had gone, Annie Besant announced to the Theosophical Society who seven of the chosen apostles were, of the coming descending Planetary Christ, the Lord Maitreya.
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