Sorabji J. Padshah
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Sorabji Jamaspji Padshah (1856-1927) was the editor of the Indian Spectator. He accompanied the Founders to Ceylon on their first trip. Col Olcott wrote that he was "a brilliant young Farsi, whose devotion to the Society and ourselves personally has never weakened nor wavered for a single day".[1]
Between 1881 and 1882 he received a letter from Master K.H., who wrote:
Your spirit is undoubtedly most closely akin to and largly vivified by that of poetry, and your intellectual instinct pierces easily into all the mysteries and abysses of nature, often giving a beautiful form, verity and harmony to your verse, as far as I am able to judge of English poetry.[2]
Actually, in one of his letters to Mr. Sinnett the Master asked him to examine one of Mr. Padshah's poems and give him (the Master) his opinion on its merits.[3]
On August 27, 1881, he published in The Bombay Gazette , a statement entitled "The Theosophists and The Occult World" vouching for the existence of the Masters of the Wisdom claiming he had seen "more than one of them" and that he was a disciple of Master K.H.[4]
According to [[ fter a few years he lost interest in the Theosophical Society.
Theost y1941 v63 December p226 - obituary - BJ Padshah -- HV
Writings
- Theost y1880 v1 February p112 - Sonnets (vf) -- SJP (? Sorabji Jamaspji Padshah)
- Theost y1880 v1 February p113 - An Indian Patriot's Prayer -- An Indian Patriot
- Theost y1880 v1 March p135 - Zoroaster
- Theost y1881 v2 April p141 - Shelley - An Aryan thinker
- Theost y1881 v2 August p230 - The "Occult World" & the "Spiritualist" (3) -- SJ Padshah
- Theost y1881 v2 August p245 - To the Himalayan Brothers (vf) -- Sohrabji J Padshah
- Theost y1881 v3 Nov+ p3 - Bombay (Branch) TS [notice of lecture delivered by Sohrabji J Padshah]
- Theost y1882 v4 Oct+ p4 - Hymn to Bramh -- SJ Padshah
Notes
- ↑ Henry Steel Olcott, Old Diary Leaves Second Series (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1974), 22.
- ↑ Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa, Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom Second Series No. 77 (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1977), 149.
- ↑ Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence No. 21 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), ???.
- ↑ Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa, Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom Second Series No. 77 (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1977), 149.