Small Universe

Krishnamurti was "discovered" by C.W. Leadbeater of the Theosophical Society and hailed as Maitrea, the next great teacher of humanity. In 1925, they expected him to walk on water all the way to Sydney, Austrailia. He didn't. Instead, he disbanded "The Order of the Star," an organization he was to lead as Maitrea. Instead, he spent the rest of his life like Socrates, asking questions.

"Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection."

"So, the questioner wants to know why it is that he cannot go beyond all these superficial wrangles of the mind. For the simple reason that, consciously or unconsciously, the mind is always seeking something, and that very search brings violence, competition, the sense of utter dissatisfaction. It is only when the mind is completely still that there is a possibility of touching the deep waters."

So, ironically, maybe he did turn out to be a great teacher of mankind, just not the way they expected in the Theosophical Society.