Bhagwan: The God that Failed by Hugh Milne

Author:Hugh Milne
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Visionary Craniosacral Work LLC
Published: 2019-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

DEATH OF A PRINCE AND LAST DAYS IN POONA

The samurai who had jumped up on the stage during the attack was called Kirti, otherwise Prince Welf of Hanover, the cousin of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. Although he did not speak much about his past, it had not been without adventure. He had arrived at the ashram with his wife and daughter several months before the attack, but this was not his first visit to the East. On a previous expedition he had stood off a band of dacoits — organised robbers — in Nepal.

Kirti was six foot four, willowy thin, with an aristocratic bearing and countenance. Part of his training as a prince had been in the martial art of Taekwondo, in which he had a black belt. He impressed me with his self-contained authority, discipline and composure, and when he let slip about his training in martial arts, I immediately applied for his transfer to the samurai, which Laxmi approved. Kirti, however, was not at all sure about it. He was enjoying a quiet life watering the ashram vegetable garden, and told me that after his gruelling years training at a dojo in Thailand he found karate distasteful: "Every time I hear a karate shout it turns my stomach."

At one point Kirti had unsuccessfully tried to renounce his royal title. He had succeeded in obtaining passports for himself and his wife without the customary and embarrassing 'Prince' and 'Princess' on them, but the German authorities rescinded the passports, saying that the titles could not be renounced.

Kirti had been educated with Charles at Gordonstoun, the spartan Scottish boarding school. Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma had driven Prince Charles and Prince Welf to school together on their first day, and they had become friends.

In 1980 Charles visited Bombay, and Kirti went to meet his cousin. As usual, Charles had an impossibly packed official schedule, and Kirti had been allowed only a five-minute audience with him. An usher announced his full title, and in went Kirti in his red sannyasi robes. It was the first time Charles had seen him dressed like this, and said that while he would have liked to visit the ashram himself, as the future royal head of the Church of England there was no way that he could visit such a controversial place.

In the five minutes that Charles and Kirti were together, Charles confided: "You know, since Uncle Louis was killed I have had nobody to turn to for real advice, no one. You are so lucky, Welf, that you have your guru. I wish I had your freedom to go and see a man like that. It's the eyes of these men that are so fascinating, you can see it in their pictures." In the correspondence that had passed between them before Kirti met Charles in Bombay, Charles had asked Kirti if he could arrange for him to ask Bhagwan a question. Charles now wrote his question, and Kirti slipped it into his pocket. Charles walked his cousin to the door, and they parted company.

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