Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00530)

Krishnamurti did not deny the existence of the Mahatmas:

"According to a recently published book by Sunanda Patwardhan, one 
time Achyut Patwardhan - the well known revolutionary Freedom 
Fighter in India had a conversation with Krishnaji -- 
Krishnaji asked "Have you read *Masters on the Path*?" to which 
Achyut said, "Yes. I remember everything." Krishnaji responded "Have 
you noticed something? Their bodies are refined bodies. But it 
sounds like an ordinary person when it is said that he has a beard. 
But it sounds like an ordinary person when it is said that he has a 
beard, he has such-and-such color of eyes. It is to corporealize the 
incorporeal. CWL has distorted the concept of the Masters and 
brought it to the level of idolatry." 

http://www.katinkahesselink.net/arch/corpore.htm

To the question that he never denied there are Masters, he replied 

"What you think of the Master is not what it is. They personalized 
something immense into personalities." When one questioner insisted 
that the belief in Masters was a fundamental part of Theosophy, K 
responded:

"Listen to what he (K) was saying. He says C W Leadbeater and H P 
Blavatsky made Masters into something personal. There was certainly 
a Master here, a Master there, and so on. That was part of 
Theosophy. But they reduced that immensity to this shoddy little 
affair." 
http://www.katinkahesselink.net/arch/krishnaj.htm


Erica Letzerich