The Boy Krishna: The first fourteen years in the life of J. Krishnamurti by Mary Lutyens

Author:Mary Lutyens
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Krishnamurti Foundations
Published: 2014-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

Some more details of Krishna’s childhood have come to light within recent years from a very strange source. As everyone who has read his story will know, he underwent an intense three-day spiritual experience in the summer of 1922 which completely changed his life. At the time he was living alone with Nitya in the Ojai Valley, California, in a cottage lent to him by an American Theosophist, Mrs Mary Gray, close to her own house. Nitya had had a recurrence of the tuberculosis from which he had suffered on and off from the spring of 1921 and the brothers had stopped in California on the way from Sydney to Switzerland, having been advised that the Ojai Valley had just as good a climate as Switzerland for this disease.

They had arrived at Ojai on July 6, 1922, and were to find it a paradise. Not long afterwards an American girl of nineteen, Rosalind Williams, who was staying with Mrs Gray, met them and made immediate friends with them. She had a particularly good influence on Nitya who did what she told him whereas he would become very irritable when Krishna tried to make him rest. Rosalind, with her mother’s consent, stayed on with Mrs Gray and went every day to the cottage as Nitya’s unofficial nurse.

Rosalind was with the brothers when Krishna’s experience took place between August 17th and 20th[5], as was also Mr A P Warrington, General Secretary of the Theosophical society in America, who had first recommended the Ojai Valley to them and who had another cottage in the Valley close by.

It was two weeks after this, on September 3rd, that there started for Krishna what Nitya was to call the ‘process’. This was appalling pain in different parts of the body but mostly in his head and spine which came on regularly at 6.30 every evening and lasted for an hour or so. (There was very little pain with the three day experience.) But little if any of Krishna’s consciousness was there during these sessions and it was what Nitya called ‘the physical elemental’ that was left to bear the pain—that is, the part of the body that controls its instinctive and purely physical actions when the higher consciousness is withdrawn. The physical elemental was said to be at a low stage of evolution and needed constant guidance.

Again it was Nitya, Rosalind and Mr Warrington who were present every evening during the ‘process’, but now Krishna mistook Rosalind for his mother. This nightly occurrence, with variations, went on until the end of December.

Throughout these weeks Nitya, whose life had also been completely changed since the three-day experience in August, kept notes each day of Krishna’s conditions and when the ‘process’ eventually stopped, put his notes together ‘so as to keep a coherent record’ of all that had happened to send to Mrs Besant and Leadbeater. This record runs to forty-seven quarto pages of typescript. Since Nitya could not type someone must have typed it for him, presumably Rosalind’s elder Theosophical sister, but it is signed in Nitya’s writing: ‘Nitya Feb.

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