Theosophical Society
THEOSOPHICAL PRAYER
OH HIDDEN LIFE ! VIBRANT IN EVERY ATOM ; OH HIDDEN LIGHT ! SHINNING IN EVERY CREATURE ;
OH HIDDEN LOVE ! EMBRACING ALL IN ONENESS ; MAY EACH WHO FEELS HIMSELF AS ONE WITH
THEE ;KNOW HE IS ALSO ONE WITH EVERY OTHER . OM SHANTHI , SHANTHI , SHANTHI.
- DR. ANNIE BESANT
HOSPET THEOSOPHICAL LODGE (SOCIETY)
“The Theosophical Society is an International Organisation, founded in New York on 17th of November 1875 by a Russian Lady Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and an American Colonel Henry Steel Alcott. The International headquarters of the Theosophical Society is situated in Adyar-Chennai, India.
Hospet Theosophical Lodge (Society), a registered body, came into existence on 10.06.1904 by getting Charter from its mother organisation Indian Section - The Theosophical Society, Varanasi. Branches of the Theosophical Society are called Lodges. Since inception, the society has strived for providing education to the downtrodden community of Hospet and surrounding area apart from propagating Theosophical ideology. Members of the society have also participation in many national movements like Swadesi Movement of Bengal Partition of 1907; Gandhian Movement of 1921; National Education Movement etc,.
The Hospet Theosophical Lodge (Society) further started its endeavours in education (Women Education in particular) in the year 1984-85 by starting 'Smt. Ugamadevi Bhawarlal Nahar Theosophical Women's College’ – UGC granted college, which is affiliated Karnataka State Women University, Bijapur. The Society started Bachelor of Business Management Course, by getting the affiliation of Gulbarga University in the Academic year 1996-97. This course was running as BBM Co-Education under our Women's College. From the academic year 2008-09, BBM Course has been separated from our Women's College by taking the Permission of Karnataka Government and Gulbarga University and named as 'Kumari G. Sudha Shankara Gouda Memorial Theosophical College of Management’ which is now affiliated to Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Bellary from 2010-11. From the year 2015-16 BBM course has been renamed as Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) by the university. And in the year 2004-05, 'Sha Giridharilalji Sheraji Palrecha P.U College for Girls' was started. Since two year we have started Theosophical High School for Girls in both Kannada and English medium.