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Krishnamurti
One of the lesser-known Ayanamsas used to convert the tropical positions to the sidereal in Indian Astrology. It has a current arc of 22° 21' 50".
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986), an influential spiritual philosopher of the 20th Century, intensely tutored by C. W. Leadbeater, Annie Besant and others of the Theosophical Society, who had believed him to be the next great incarnation of the World Spirit (Maitreya). Increasingly uncomfortable with his role as the Chosen One, he split in 1929 with the Society and dissolved the massive worldwide "Order of the Star" that had been instituted to support him and his work. This led to a crisis in the TS from which it has never fully recovered. Krishnamurti continued to teach, but repudiated the idea that he was a messianic leader or guru, holding that truth was best found by individuals through meditation, rather than following the teachings of others. He received the UN Peace Medal in 1984. See Wikipedia on Krishnamurti.
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