A closer look
Leaders of the Theosophical Society spent years grooming a young Indian boy named Jiddu Krishnamurti, fully believing they had discovered the mystical reincarnation of the World Teacher who would bring ultimate spiritual salvation to humanity. They built a massive international organization around him, complete with wealthy donors, sprawling estates, and thousands of devoted followers waiting for him to step into his role as the ultimate magical messiah. In nineteen twenty-nine, after years of preparation and hype, Krishnamurti stood before his massive organization and simply dissolved it, loudly declaring that truth is a pathless land and firing himself from the job of being a god. It is honestly the ultimate anti-work power move to be handed a multi-million dollar cult on a silver platter and decide you would rather just be a regular guy who gives mildly annoying philosophical lectures instead. The crushing disappointment of middle-aged occultists realizing their newly appointed god just wanted to be a freelance philosopher is an unparalleled historical comedy
