Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-10
ACTION TOMORROW
TO RAISE MESSIAH
Krishnamurti, Indian Protege
of Dr.. Annie Besant, to
Be Proclaimed.

BY Cable 20 The Star and New York World
LONDON, January DIR. Annie
Besant, head of the Order Of the star
of the East ana president of the
Theosophical Society, will proclaim
her young Indian protege. J. krish-
namurti, 10 be the new Messiah. at
Adyar, India, Monday, it was re-
ported here today.
Intense excitement has been aroused
in the Madras district Of India by
news Of DIR. Besant's intentions, par
ticularly as at his first public ap-
pearance in the Indian world. at the
meeting at Gokhale Hall. Madras,
December l.. krishnamurti was any
thing but flattering in his criticisms
of his native audience
He described the wretched Condi-
lions Of Indian life which he assert
ed had brought disgrace to India and
TO her culture throughout the civilized
world. He said:
You GO TO 4 temple and the first
thing you see is squalor, untidiness
and lack OF spirituality"
Attitude Toward Prayer.
Then referring to daily worship and
prayers, he continue:
our first instinct is to get ii over
quickly, humble something which the
priest has taught, not understanding
Il word OF it. but getting it over in
order 20 reach in time our office. school
or college. Why do we do it at all?
We are afraid we will miss something
If we don't. What do we find at home?
Neither cleanliness nor tidineSS nor
comfort. Why do we tolerate it?
Why don't You break up the house?
think that revolt is a virtue.
But you don't think so merely to
conform to general ideas, and the re
suit is that India as civilization has
stopped.
india doesn't progress. We look
half European. half Indian. If there
is cry for swaraj thome rule). we put
on only an outside garb of swaraj
and inside have foreign stuff
Finally, after referring to serious
defects Of the whole social system in
India, kriShnamurti concluded:
why do YOU and l admit certain
horrors in India and yet fail to get up
and shake the whole system? Be
cause we aren't interested in our coun-
try"
At a big conference of the Order of
The Star of the East at Ommen, Hol-
land. last August, when DR.. Besant
prophesied the temperance of the
Messiah in the body of krishnamurti,
good many speakers dealt with the
personality, beliefs and utteranceS of
that young Indian. Among them was
Bishop" James Wedgewood of the
Liberal Catholic Church. which is
closely affiliated with the order and
with the TheosophiCal Society. He is
among the II disciples of the Messiah
named by DR.. Besant.
At that meeting. speaking of kriSh-
namurti as the coming Messiah. he
said: we may say that when the
world teacher comes again, he Will
certainly proclaim a message. He will
try and shake peoples from the CON
ventionalities of the day. He will prob
ably destroy, to a certain extent, the
say SO in all reverence. in so far as
they check free expression of the life.
But surely he will also found in
situations through which the powers
that he wishes to pour upon his
people, not only when he is upon
earth but for succeeding generations
In future, may flow
Lady Emily Lutyens. daughter of
the Earl of Lytton and wife of Sir
Edward Lutyens, the famous British
architect who designed the London
Cenotaph. talked to the conference
about krishnamurti, with whom she
is we'll acquainted. She said:
All the years | have known him,
never for one second have l faltered
I'm my belief in the great destiny which
is his. Now, the first great thing on
which he is insisting. over and over
again, is that we should realize that
as servants of the Master we must
become a spiritual aristocracy of the
world