Krishnamurti's secret love affair with his best friend's wife
There were two Krishnamurtis. One was the persona presented to the world through lectures and books; a man without ego who led a sanctified life of celibacy and high moral purity. The other Krishnamurti was a shadowy, self-centered, vain man, capable of sudden angers and enormous cruelty to friends. He was also a habitual liar. Krishna, as his friends called him, freely admitted his compulsive lying. He blamed it on simple fear of having his deceptions detected.
Krishna's closest associate was Raja, whose full Indian name was Desikacharya Rajagopalacharya. A native of India, Raja was as handsome as Krishna, and for almost thirty years a devoted disciple who served as his master's business manager, secretary, literary agent, and editor. It was Krishna's good friend Aldous Huxley who introduced Raja to his editor at Harper and Row, the firm that published Krishna's many books. Krishna had little interest in writing or publishing, but he allowed Raja to cobble books out of his talks and notebooks, and to edit this material into volumes.
Raja's wife Rosalind was a beautiful American Caucasian who grew up in Hollywood, a friend of movie stars, who almost became a professional tennis player. Toward the end of Krishna's life an astonishing revelation came to light. For nearly thirty years, unknown to Raja, Rosalind had been Krishna's mistress! As such, she had undergone a miscarriage and several abortions, all miraculously kept secret from her husband.
Raja forgave his wife and never ceased loving her, but a rift between Raja and Krishna grew steadily wider until finally they became bitter enemies. Twice Krishna unsuccessfully sued Raja for mishandling funds, and Raja in turn sued Krishna for slander. All three lawsuits were finally settled out of court. The two former friends never reconciled.
Rosalind's passion for Krishna cooled when she discovered he was having another secret affair, this time with a shy, beautiful young woman, Nandini Mehta. Raja's passion for Rosalind also dimmed when he fell in love with Annalisa Begha, a Swiss-Italian who was twenty-three years his junior. After he and Rosalind finally obtained a Mexican divorce, Raja and Annalisa married.
You can learn all the sordid details about these surprising events in a splendid biography of Krishna, Lives in the Shadow with J. Krishnamurti (1991), by Radha Rajagopal Sloss, the daughter of Rosalind and Raja. Now married to mathematician James Sloss, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Radha is also the author of India Beyond the Mirror (1988).
A story in Mrs. Sloss's book reveals how little Krishnamurti understood science. America's funniest and nuttiest medical quack was Dr. Albert Abrams. You can read about him in my Fads and Fallacies. Abrams invented a bizarre electrical machine which he claimed could diagnose all ailments from a drop of blood, and could cure terrible diseases by electrical rays. Like the writer and socialist Upton Sinclair, Krishna became convinced that Abrams's machine did everything he claimed it did. He sent Abrams a blood sample, and was told he had cancer in his intestines and left lung, and syphilis in his spine and nose. After being treated for a while by Abrams's machine, Krishna said he felt much better.
Radha likens her father to the Hindu god Vishnu, the preserver, and Krishna to Shiva, the destroyer. "The division between Krishnamurti himself will cast a very dark shadow on all he has said or written," Radha concludes. "Because the first thing the readers will say, is: 'If he cannot live it, who can?'"
After learning about Krishnamurti's secret love affair with his best friend's wife, Bohm felt betrayed. Perhaps this plunged him into his third and final deep depression. Hospitalized, suffering from paranoia and thoughts of suicide, Bohm underwent fourteen episodes of shock therapy before he recovered sufficiently to leave the mental hospital. Earlier triple bypass surgery on his heart had been successful, but his death in 1991, at age 75, was from a massive heart attack. Krishnamurti had died six years earlier, at his home in Ojai, of pancreatic cancer. His body was cremated.
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