R. Keshava Pillai
R. Keshava Pillai (also known as "Brother Keshu") was an Inspector of Police at Nellore, in Andhra Pradesh. On May, 1882, a Branch of the Theosophical Society was formed at Nellore and Mr. Keshava Pillai was chosen as Secretary.
Keshava Pillai became a probationary chela of Mahatma K.H., who gave him the Tibetan name Chandra Cusho (also spelled Chundro Cusho or Chunder Cusho). He received several letters from the Mahatma (included in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom Series 2, pp. 115-119) and described the recipient of one of them as follows:
In the year 1882 while I was traveling by railway between the Allahabad and Mogul Sarai stations, a letter fell in the compartment of the railway carriage in which I was sitting. I was alone in the compartment and the carriage was in motion. I had wished that Mahatma K.H. should give me instructions regarding a certain matter about which I was then thinking, and which I opened the letter I found that my thoughts had been answered, and that the letter was in the handwriting of Mahatma K.H., whose writing I know so well. Madame Blavatsky was then in Bombay.[1]
Keshava Pillai did not pass his probation. He later lost interest in the Theosophical Society and had a life of many worldly disappointments.
Notes
- ↑ Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa, Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom Second Series No. 66 (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1977), 118-119.