Re: Theos-World J. Krishnamurti and beautiful Rosalind Rajagopal
Jun 13, 2008 07:04 PM
by mkr777
I recall reading the passage you have quoted.
There are two things I am interested in. While we are interested in his
life, what is more important is not anyone else's life but my life. It does
not matter from whom or where ideas and information comes to me, if they are
helpful to me.
Secondly, we tend to look at all facts from our limited and distorted
perspective. I think a clear cut example was when H S Olcott was chosen to
launch TS, he was a man of the world (he says so in a letter to AO Hume), &
not a vegetarian and a smoker.
If anyone is looking for a celibate, vegetarian, non-smoker householder
leading a clean life, there were tens of thousands to choose from. But,
there were some other more important personal qualities in him that made him
the best choice in the world to launch the TS. (This is confirmed by
Masters, who founded the modern theosophical movement). Even, the greatest
of Hindu Religious reformers, Shri Shankaracharya was considered by some as
a illegitimate child and when his mother died, the village folks would not
provide fire to cremate her.
So let us pause and think carefully and perhaps suspend our judgment, since
all we see is from a very limited perspective.
mkr
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Cass Silva <silva_cass@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks Ramadoss
> My sentiments exactly are reflected in this paragraph
>
> "So-called holy men
> have maintained that you cannot come near God if you indulge in sex,
> therefore they push it aside although they are eaten up with it. But
> by
> denying sexuality they put out their eyes and cut out their tongues for
> they
> deny the whole beauty of the earth. They have starved their hearts
> and minds; they are dehydrated human beings; they have banished beauty
> because beauty is associated with woman." And again: "I think we should
> understand what love and chastity are. The vow of chastity is not
> chastity
> at all, for below the words the craving goes on and trying to suppress it
> in
> different ways, religious and otherwise, is a form of ugliness which, in
> its
> very essence, is unchaste. The chastity of the monk, with his vows
> and
> denials, is essentially worldliness which is unchaste. All forms of
> resistance build a wall of separateness which turns life into a
> battlefield;
> and so life becomes not chaste at all." And yet again: "To deny sex is
> another form of brutality; it is there, it is a fact. When we are
> intellectual slaves, endlessly repeating what others have said, when we are
> following, obeying, imitating, then a whole avenue of life is closed; when
> action is merely a mechanical repetition and not a free movement, then
> there
> is no release; when there is this incessant urge to fulfil, to be, then we
> are emotionally thwarted, there is a blockage. So sex becomes the one
> issue
> which is our very own, which is not second-hand. And in the act of
> sex
> there is a forgetting of oneself, one's problems and one's fears. In
> that
> act there is no self at all."
>
> In answer to a question he was asked at a public meeting, "Is
> it possible
> for a man and a woman to live together, to have sex and children, without
> all the turmoil, bitterness and conflict in such a relationship?" K said,
> "Can't you fall in love and not have a possessive relationship? I
> love
> someone and she loves me and we get married-that is all perfectly
> straightforward and simple, in that there is no conflict at all. (When we
> say we get married I might just as well say we decide to live together.)
> Can't one have that without the other? Without the tail, as it were,
> necessarily following? Can't two people be in love and both be so
> intelligent and so sensitive that there is freedom and an absence of a
> centre that makes conflict? Conflict is not in the feeling of being
> in
> love. The feeling of being in love is utterly without conflict.
> There is
> no loss of energy in being in love. The loss of energy Is in the
> tail-jealousy, possessiveness, suspicion, doubt, the fear of losing that
> love, the constant demand for reassurance and security. Surely it
> must be
> possible to function in a sexual relationship with someone you love without
> the nightmare which usually follows. Of course it is."
>
> --- On Fri, 6/13/08, mkr777@gmail.com <mkr777%40gmail.com> <
> mkr777@gmail.com <mkr777%40gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> From: mkr777@gmail.com <mkr777%40gmail.com> <mkr777@gmail.com<mkr777%40gmail.com>
> >
> Subject: Re: Theos-World J. Krishnamurti and beautiful Rosalind Rajagopal
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com <theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Friday, June 13, 2008, 10:10 PM
>
> I posted a msg on K which may be of interest. Here is the link.
>
> http://www.theos- l.com/archives/ 199701/tl00737. html
>
> mkr
>
> On 6/13/08, Anand <AnandGholap@ gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > These passages are taken from this webpage.
> > http://www.alpheus. org/html/ articles/ thopv/kandwt. html
> >
> > Here are the passages.
> > ------------ --------- ---------
> > Radha Rajagopal Sloss
> >
> > Radha Rajagopal Sloss dropped a little bomb in the Krishnamurti
> > circles in 1991 by alleging that her mother, Rosalind Rajagopal, the
> > wife of Krishnamurti' s former friend, manager and publisher,
> > Desikacharya Rajagopal, had a secret love affair with Krishnamurti
> > from 1932 until approximately 1957. This revelation, now admitted to
> > be true by the Krishnamurti Foundation of America, might have done
> > irreparable damage to Krishnamurti' s image as a celibate, but as
> > physical love is not contradictory to his teachings, the disclosure
> > will probably soon be considered irrelevant.
> > More important and possibly damaging is Sloss' allegation about
> > Krishnamurti' s involvement in the termination of Rosalind's third
> > pregnancy by Krishnamurti and the observations of Sloss and others
> > about his behavior in the Krishnamurti- Rajagopal feud over funds,
> real
> > estate, and archives. According to Sloss the real cause of the fight
> > was Krishnamurti' s fear about "what would happen to his public image
> > if letters and statements in his own handwriting should ever come to
> > light. He wished to acquire control over these archives by whatever
> > means necessary." (75) This alleged obsession drove Krishnamurti to
> > maligning Rajagopal, and to instigating a lawsuit accusing Rajagopal
> > of mismanaging funds. (76) Some, who were close to both men, and had
> > knowledge of the case, tried, in vain, to mend fences. Sloss
> > reproduced their letters with their observations: "One day, history
> > will reveal everything; but the division in Krishnamurti himself will
> > cast a very dark shadow on all he has said or written. Because the
> > first thing the readers will say, is: `If he cannot live it, who
> can?'"
> > This last statement was echoed in another letter: "It has been obvious
> > to me Krishnaji is not living his own teaching, that he has been
> > making war." An explanation for this was offered by Sloss, which is
> > similar to Nethercot's view of Krishnamurti: "Krishna was more than
> > one person." She does not elaborate the statement, but rather
> > illustrates it. She wrote that within a short time-span Rosalind, who
> > also tried to mediate between Krishnamurti and Rajagopal, experienced
> > Krishnamurti first as "absolutely impervious to her words, withdrawn
> > and haughty" and ten days later as "loving and appeared willing to
> > talk" and wanting to "try to straighten things out." She found talking
> > to "two Krishnas," a "strange and unsettling experience."
> > Krishnamurti' s reaction to criticism of a perceived dichotomy between
> > his words and his deeds can be found in conversations he had with
> > trustees of the Krishnamurti Foundation of America in 1972. According
> > to a booklet published by the same foundation, he made it clear in
> > these conversations, that "the desire for consistency between the
> > teacher and the teachings simply mirrors the conditioning of the
> > questioner." Questioning the relationship between a teacher and his
> > teachings from the point of view of a hypothetical
> > "man in the street," Krishnamurti said: "I'm not interested in what
> > the Buddha was when he was a young man, whether he had sex, no sex,
> > drugs or no drugs. I'm not interested. What I am interested in is what
> > he is saying?"
> > "Just... share into his teaching so that I can lead a different kind
> > of life... I am only interested in the teaching. Nothing else--who you
> > are, who you're not. Whether you're real or honest. It is my life that
> > I am concerned with, not with your life..." Coming back to addressing
> > the person to whom he was talking directly, he said: "How do you know
> > he is honest or dishonest?" "How do you know whether what he is saying
> > is out of his own life or he is inventing? Inventing in the big sense?
> > Or he's leading a double life?" "I would say `Please, leave the
> > personality alone.'"
> >
> > The question might arise whether Krishnamurti was sincere in this
> > conversation or was applying preventive damage-control. As we have
> > seen, Krishnamurti' s reaction to such a question would probably be
> > challenging the questioner about his own conditioning, and dismissing
> > the issue as irrelevant. To this answer the same skepticism about
> > Krishnamurti' s sincerity might be rejoined. This locks the discussion
> > in a solid stalemate, which is anyway the logical conclusion of a
> > reciprocated ad hominem argument.
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