"A Messiah. None other than a Christ. That is how he was regarded as a young man by one of the world's leading religious organizations, the Theosophical Society. Its leaders brought him from India to England for education in 1911, and were his mentors until 1929. His name is Jiddu Krishnamurti, in honor of a Hindu divinity, like himself born an eighth child."
"At approximately the age Jesus Christ went public, J. Krishnamurti went private. Two years later he emerged and renounced not only his own role as a religious savior but all religions. "One has to go it alone, for they have all failed...eventually one realizes that one cannot depend on anyone, either on the priests, the scientists or the specialists." Among the leading lights in the so-called spiritual revolution, he stands apart."
Jiddu Krishnamurti was identified early as a messianic figure by the Theosophical Society and brought from India to England for formal education in 1911. He later renounced his appointed role and repudiated all religions, asserting that each person must go it alone because priests, scientists, and specialists will ultimately fail. Many regard him as having reached a high level of human enlightenment, and prominent intellectuals praised him even as he refused applause when speaking. He avoided permanent residence, traveling extensively like the Buddha after his own awakening, and spent decades teaching detachment from attachments and traditional authorities.
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