Rukmini arundale biography of william

Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904-1986) was an Indian Theosophist best known as a dancer and educator, and as wife of George S.

Arundale, President of the Theosophical Society based in Adyar, Chennai, India. At the beginning of her career in the Society, she expressed her purpose in these words:

To encourage the living of beautiful lives, of lives so refined and so artistic, so gracious and so compassionate, so true and so noble, so wise and so understanding, that everywhere the beautiful is extolled and ugliness fades away.^[1]

Early years

Rukmini Devi was born on February 29, 1904, into a Brahmin family in the city of Madurai, South India.

Rukmini arundale biography of william

Her father, Sr, A. Nilakanta Sastri of Thiruvisanellur, was an engineer and a respected Sanskrit scholar. His wife, Srimati Seshammal,came from a very cultured family of Thiruvaiyar.^[2] They were "strongly influenced by theosophical ideas to which they had been introduced in 1901.

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