They found the boy in

in 1999 on a beach by the Adjar River in Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu in India.

There is some controversy over the date of his birth. Some say he was

14 when discovered by his own account in some interviews he may have been as young as

nine. The Englishman who first saw him, Charles Ledbeater, described

him as having the most wonderful aura he had ever seen, Ledbeater professed to be clairvoyant.

However, the boy's father and teachers had apparently beaten him regularly,

finding him to be vague and dreamy and believing he was either lazy or intellectually disabled.

He had contracted malaria in 1903 and suffered recurrent bouts of the illness,

so he was sickly and thin and sensitive, but he struck Lead Beater as radiant and possessed of not a particle of selfishness, as he put it.

And his education began in earnest. and his younger brother Nietzsche from whom he was

inseparable were privately tutored from then on and within six months the boy was fluent in both written and spoken English.

His name was Jidu Krishnamurti and his benefactor and tutor Charles Charles Leadbeater, believed he had found the chosen one who would become a vessel for the incarnation of Mitraia, the world teacher and final Buddha,

incarnating to enlighten all of humanity.

His English associate, Annie Bessend,

would come to hold legal guardianship

over the young brothers, taking them away from their family.

Kishnamurti's biographer, Roland Vernon, describes a rigorous program imposed upon the boy which included school subjects,

sport and exercise, meditation and yoga, religious studies,

and instruction in the ways of British high society.

For 20 years, Krishnamurti was educated and groomed to assume his venerated role as the world teacher.

An organization was established around him,

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