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The enigmatic Krishnamurti (1895–1986) was a slender, striking thirteen-year-old with penetrating eyes when Theosophists found him on a beach in South India and proclaimed him an avatar. “The Divine Spirit has descended once more on a man,” declared Annie Besant. They educated him in England and prepared him to lead their Order of the Star of the East. In his early twenties, following World War I, he was sent out as the World Teacher. In 1922, seeking a warm, dry climate for his younger brother, who had tuberculosis, he moved to Ojai, California. Although his brother died three years later, the scenic town near Santa Barbara became Krishnamurti’s home in the U.S., where he lived until his death at age ninety.