Jiddu Nityananda

Other names:

Nitya

Nitya Krishnamurti

Nityananda

Date of birth:

01 Jan 1898

Precise DOB unknown:

City of birth:

Madanapalle

Country of birth:

India

Date of death:

01 Jan 1925

Precise date of death unknown:

Date of 1st arrival in Britain:

01 Mar 1911

Precise 1st arrival date unknown:

Dates of time spent in Britain:

Intermittently from 1911 until his death in 1925.

Location:

On first arrival, lived with Annie Besant and the Brights at 82 Drayton Gardens, South Kensington.

Moved around a lot in London, staying at the homes of various Theosophists including Countess De La Warr's home, Old Lodge, in Ashdown Forest; a flat belonging to Muriel De La Warr at Robert Street, Adelphi; and the house of Mary Dodge on West Side Common.

About:

Nityananda (Nitya) was the younger brother of Krishnamurti [1], the Theosophist leader. He was 'discovered' along with his brother by C. W. Leadbeater [2] in 1910 and brought to England in 1911 by Annie Besant [3] for his education.

Nityananda passed the London Matriculation after WW1 and began to read for the Bar. He suffered from tuberculosis and died in 1925. Mary Lutyens, the daughter of Edwin [4] and Emily [5], recalls her infatuation and crush on Nitya as a young girl.

Connections:

George Arundale [6] (tutor), Harold Baillie-Weaver, Annie Besant [3], Esther Bright, Muriel de La Warr, C. R. Jinarajadasa [7] (tutor), Jiddu Krishnamurti, C. W. Leadbeater [2], Edwin Lutyens [4], Emily Lutyens [5], Mary Lutyens, Rajagopal.

Network:

Jiddu Krishnamurti [8]

Organizations:

Theosophical Society [9]

Secondary works:

Bright, Esther, Old Memories and Letters of Annie Besant (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1936)

Lutyens, Mary, To Be Young: Some Chapters of Autobiography (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959)

Lutyens, Emily, Candles in the Sun (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957)