This and other differences, in particular Steiner's vocal rejection of Leadbeater and Besant's claim that Jiddu Krishnamurti was the vehicle of a new Maitreya, or world teacher, led to a formal split in 1912 / 13, when Steiner and the majority of members of the German section of the Theosophical Society broke off to form a new group, the Anthroposophical Society.

The Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti stayed at the Carrington in the 1920s when he was under the tutelage of the Theosophical Society.

The castle was used by the famous philosopher and spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti, of whom Baron Philip van Pallandt was an avid follower, from about 1924 to just before the start of the Second World War.

Jiddu Krishnamurti ( May 11, 1895 – February 17, 1986 ) was an Indian writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects.

Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then colonial India.

Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on 11 May 1895 in the small town of Madanapalle in Madras Presidency ( Chittoor District in Andhra Pradesh ).

Krishnamurti was fond of his mother Sanjeevamma, who died when he was ten.

In memoirs written when he was eighteen years old, Krishnamurti described psychic experiences, such as " seeing " his sister, who had died in 1904, and his mother, who had died in 1905.

Leadbeater had noticed Krishnamurti, who frequented the same beach on the Adyar river, and was amazed by the " most wonderful aura he had ever seen, without a particle of selfishness in it.

Following his " discovery ," Krishnamurti was nurtured by members of the Theosophical Society in Adyar.

Despite his history of problems with schoolwork and concerns about his capacities and physical condition, the fourteen-year-old Krishnamurti was able to speak and write competently in English within six months.

His father, who had initially assented to Besant's legal guardianship of Krishnamurti, was pushed into the background by the swirl of attention around his son.

Krishnamurti was named as its head, with senior Theosophists assigned various other positions.

Mary Lutyens, a biographer and friend of Krishnamurti, says that there was a time when he believed that he was to become the World Teacher after correct spiritual and secular guidance and education.

At the same time, Leadbeater assumed the role of guide in a parallel, mystical instruction of Krishnamurti ; the existence and progress of this instruction was at the time known only to a select few.

While he showed a natural aptitude in sports, Krishnamurti always had problems with formal schooling and was not academically inclined.

" However, as he was growing up, Krishnamurti showed signs of adolescent rebellion and emotional instability, chafing at the regimen imposed on him, visibly uncomfortable with the publicity surrounding him, and occasionally expressing doubts about the future prescribed for him.

It was thought that the area's climate would be beneficial to Nitya, who had been diagnosed with tuberculosis ; Nitya's ailing health would become a concern for Krishnamurti.

It was at Ojai in August and September 1922 that Krishnamurti went through an intense, " life-changing " experience.

According to Lutyens, it is evident from his notebook that this experience of otherness was “ with him almost continuously ” during his life and gave him “ a sense of being protected .” Krishnamurti describes it in his notebook as typically following an acute experience of the process, for example, on awakening the next day:

As news of these mystical experiences spread, rumors concerning the messianic status of Krishnamurti reached fever pitch as the 1925 Theosophical Society Convention was planned, on the 50th anniversary of its founding.

The Lutyens ' marriage quickly deteriorated, with Lady Emily becoming interested in theosophy, Eastern religions and a fascination — emotional and philosophical — with Jiddu Krishnamurti.

As a result of poor living conditions, Krishnamurti and his brothers were soon undernourished and infested with lice.

During this time, Krishnamurti had developed a strong bond with Annie Besant and came to view her as a surrogate mother.

Krishnamurti in England in 1911 with his brother Nitya and the Theosophists Annie Besant and George Arundale

The initial events happened in two distinct phases: first a three-day spiritual experience followed, two weeks later, by a longer-lasting condition that Krishnamurti and those around him would refer to as the process ; this condition would recur, at frequent intervals and with varying intensity, until his death.

According to witnesses, it started on 17 August 1922, with Krishnamurti complaining of sharp pain at the nape of his neck.

The subtlety of the new distinctions on the World Teacher issue was lost on many of his admirers, who were already bewildered or distraught because of the changes in Krishnamurti ’ s outlook, vocabulary and pronouncements – among them Besant and Mary Lutyens ' mother Emily, who had a very close relationship with him.

Krishnamurti resigned from the various trusts and other organizations that were affiliated with the defunct Order of the Star, including the Theosophical Society.

From 1930 through 1944, Krishnamurti engaged in speaking tours and in the issue of publications under the auspice of the " Star Publishing Trust " ( SPT ), which he had founded with Desikacharya Rajagopal, a close associate and friend from the Order of the Star.

Krishnamurti broke the hiatus from public speaking in May 1944 with a series of talks in Ojai.

When in India after World War II, many prominent personalities came to meet with Krishnamurti, including Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

In his meetings with Nehru, Krishnamurti elaborated at length on the teachings, saying in one instance, “ Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things ; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you.

Krishnamurti continued speaking in public lectures, group discussions and with concerned individuals around the world.

Nevertheless, Krishnamurti met and held discussions with, several prominent scientists, including physicists Fritjof Capra and George Sudarshan, biologist Rupert Sheldrake, psychiatrist David Shainbert, as well as psychotherapists representing various theoretical orientations.

In the 1970s, Krishnamurti met several times with then Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, with whom he had far ranging, and in some cases, very serious discussions.

In India, with its long tradition of wandering " holy " men, hermits, and independent religious teachers, Krishnamurti attracted the attention ( and occasionally the unwanted admiration ) of large numbers of people in public lectures and personal interviews.

* 1929 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, tapped to be the messianic " World Teacher ", shocks the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation built to support him.

* Jiddu Krishnamurti, groomed to be a world spiritual teacher by the leadership of the Theosophical Society in the early part of the 20th century, publicly renounced this role in 1929 while also denouncing the concept of gurus, spiritual leaders, and teachers, advocating instead the unmediated and direct investigation of reality.

After the war, Krishnamurti ( again accompanied by Nitya, by then the Organizing Secretary of the Order ) embarked on a series of lectures, meetings and discussions around the world related to his duties as the Head of the OSE.

" Extraordinary " pronouncements of spiritual advancement were made by various parties, disputed by others, and the internal Theosophical politics further alienated Krishnamurti.

The business and organizational aspects of the SPT were administered chiefly by D. Rajagopal, as Krishnamurti devoted his time to speaking and meditation.

These talks, and subsequent material, were published by " Krishnamurti Writings Inc " ( KWINC ), the successor organization to the " Star Publishing Trust.

In another instance he talked of Columbus going through an arduous journey to discover the New World, whereas now, it could easily be reached by jet ; the ultimate implication being that even if Krishnamurti was in some way " special ," in order to arrive at his level of understanding, others didn't need to be.

The Krishnamurti Foundation established by him and his mentor Annie Besant founded in 1928 runs many schools in India & abroad.

Helen Nearing, who had known Krishnamurti in the 1920s, stated, in Loving and Leaving the Good Life, that Krishnamurti's attitudes were conditioned by privilege.

The public revelation was received with surprise and consternation by many, and was also dealt with in a rebuttal volume of biography by Mary Lutyens ( Krishnamurti and the Rajagopals ).

However, by 1925 Krishnamurti had begun to move away from the course expected of him by the leaders of the Theosophical Society in Adyar and by many Theosophists.

A judge in a related custody case in India ( Naranian vs. Besant, regarding the legal guardianship of Jiddu Krishnamurti and his brother Nityananda ) remarked in his ruling that Leadbeater held " immoral ideas " – this prompted Annie Besant to support Leadbeater in a letter regarding the facts of the case and its coverage by The Times of London.

Chopra acknowledges that his thought has been inspired by Jiddu Krishnamurti and others.

This theory has, however, been rejected by some specialists in Uralic languages, and has in recent times also been criticised by other Dravidian linguists like Bhadriraju Krishnamurti.