The Man Who Rejected Societal Identities: Remembering Jiddu Krishnamurthi

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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1518674704497","data":"On this day in 1986, 90-year old Jiddu Krishnamurthi, born in Madras in May, 1895, passed away due to cancer. <\/p>His legacy, however, endures on as strong as ever. <\/p>In a time when people were obsessed with finding Gods and spirituality in their lives, Jiddu Krishnamurthi, a young man at the time unsure of his place in the world, was being groomed to be a World Teacher, a notion he rejected before renouncing his religion, caste and creed and travel the world, giving speeches and being an all around awesome person. He renounced all organized religions and ideologies in 1929, saying that religions, with their prescribed teachings and worship services, retarded self-awareness. In that spirit, he carried his message to audiences in many countries.  <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1518674972386","data":"5a85272cd0a2b"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1518674974056","data":"When Jiddu Krishnamurti was a teen-ager, he became the protege of Annie Besant, president of the Theosophist Society. It was Mrs. Besant, who was highly visible in India as a political and social reformer, who hailed the boy as the chosen vehicle of what she called the Great Teacher or World Teacher.<\/p>The reference was to a messianic Buddha figure in Hindu mythology. To further the cause, Mrs. Besant in 1911 founded the World Order of the Star of the East, with Mr. Krishnamurti at its head.<\/p>He was privately educated in England and at the Sorbonne in Paris, and Mrs. Besant traveled with him in Europe and in the United States. His early visits to New York in the 1920's became choice items for the city's many tabloids, which feasted on the fervor of Mrs. Besant's followers and their notion of the new Messiah.<\/p>By the mid-1920's, Mrs. Besant issued public disclaimers noting that she and the Order of the Star had never made such claims. The World Teacher, she insisted, had spoken through the body of his disciple Jesus 2,000 years ago and had made Mr. Krishnamurti his ''vehicle'' this time. <\/p>It came as a surprise then that he decided to dissolve the organisation in 1929, rejecting the notion of being a cult leader or a religious messiah, choosing instead to dedicate his life to true and unequivocal freedom of people around the world, the first step of which was rejecting all organised religion. <\/p>Jiddu Krishnamurthi might not be the first person to renounce their religion and societal identities in order to preach the fact that humans were all born equal, but he sure made it famous. I often wonder what he would think of social movements of the 21st century. <\/p>Some questions are simply not meant to be answered, I guess. <\/p>Here's to the man who rejected organised religion, social condition and politics in a quest to be free of the shackles and also lead fellow human beings into an age of being truly and unequivocally free.  <\/p>"}]

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