Krishnaji forsook his Messiah ... and if you
look into it you can see, understand why. This is about forgiveness, but it is about the Wisdom. The one who was forsaken was of course
the Christ. Jiddu tried and no one in his
Right Mind can blame him. As is pointed out, he aligned with the Devas, with the
airy element and with a different line of approach than was needed by the Christ. For this choice he cannot be faulted, yet the comparison with Master J. falls short ... at this juncture.
So Jiddu dissolved the Order of the Star, and
set sail across his Pathless Land. He forsook the same Masters as the Christ, the Buddha and
the Theosophical Mahatmas who had long known this Brother on the Way.
You may all pretend, or you may not know, but let's call a thing what it is. Geoffrey Hodson spoke out of utmost respect, deepest reverence, for the bold sacrifice made by Krishnaji on the Inner Planes. This should be apparent. Let's not scapegoat a pedophile or two who appears on the radar, lest we toss all of
centuries of Catholicism right out the window alongside it [
him, CWL]. The fact that Leadbeater was trained by the Mahatmas is indisputable for some of us. His clairvoyance was of high order, taking him into the mental and perhaps beyond. I challenge you - any of you - to tell me about such landscapes ... and
chart them in a series of brief discourses [CWL made many of these, but he also wrote books like
The Masters and the Path and
The Inner Life]. Take the time to read these, realize some of the
Inner contacts which this man - and plenty of us - have had, and set envy aside. The glamours fall away, we learn a thing or two about how it is
that the Great Ones achieve ... a better Day.
Jiddu was - or became - an Arhat. He was under the direct training and influence of
the Christ. A man can shuffle that around in his head as many ways as he likes, but if you set the crap aside for a second, it's that simple. I can't imagine what stress he must have been under. I cannot begin to fathom it. It is beside the point that we can look
here and there, even find and attribute the presumed causes or influences behind JK's downfall. But I know, one man may as readily throw out the
Mahatmas as Krishnamurti did ... it will do no good for the rest of us. We are as aware of them as realities as you are of ~ parsley, of parakeets, of petunias. And so we must account for it all.
I just think there is so much in his contribution that if a person dwell on the negative, the greater of the contribution is missed. A
High Initiate, if all I say is true, nevertheless somehow
did not quite fit ... or fulfil some higher purpose. Big deal. I think people are apt to mistake the superhuman for the Perfect. There are so many fine gradations in between, and then there are the
Perfect Masters who still become more so, and all the better expressed, every year, every day of their lives. I don't think
unending Perfection has much meaning for most of us.
Let's talk about Perfection first. Let's speak about some of those Ideals ol' Krishaji was speaking of, starting with
At the Feet of the Master ... and remember, if they're taught then there's a Teacher, and if there's a Teacher then there's a student ... and
where there are students there is a Community
... and pretty soon I gotta go lookin' for Buddhas again to kill.
I can't stand it!
