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The following is correspondence
between K and Rajagopal which led to the utter
surrender of K's legal defence in the action brought
against him by Rajagopal, and it is clear that
he allowed the case to collapse rather than to
have his adultery and abortions revealed in open
court.
My dear Rajagopal,
As it will not be possible for
me to speak to you face to face, I am compelled
to write to you this letter. If you like you may
show it to your trustees or, if you want, I will
send them a copy . For the first few years after
the brother's death you were considerate. You
did look after K and the things you were supposed
to do. But at Eerde you began to quarrel with
me over little things. For example you said that
you did all the work and I just mooned about.
It slowly began this antagonism, jealousy, your
manoeuvring people and K. We used to travel together
but then you would send me off on different routes
to America and India to save money while you would
go more directly in greater convenience. The quarrels,
the bullying went on for many years. I could have
complained to Dr Besant, who was still alive,
and you would have been promptly sent back to
India, but as K is not the complaining type, we
carried on. You were always depressed in the mornings,
low, irritable, quarrelsome. In the afternoons,
after lunch, you were fairly active. It was slowly
mounting, your complete contempt, suspicion and
the secrets which you kept to yourself about the
books, the money and so on. You also kept a secret
account you told me no one knew about. So it went
on, the quarrels, calling me names. You often
told me that they should have chosen you, because
you had the brains and I was good-looking but
more or less an idiot. That was your general attitude
toward K.
Rajagopal, bear this in mind:
I was never frightened of you. I hated scenes,
small or big, so I would avoid them at any cost.
In India and Europe you were treated as a secretary,
which you loathed and you used to attack me as
though I were responsible for it. It all became
so ugly, brutal and I submitted to all this rubbish.
I have not talked about you and the lady. Only
after the case began and you brought that into
it that I had to tell trustees here of all the
ugliness you made of it. You used to tell people
though KWINC had plenty of money, there were no
funds for K's travels. You would then ask different
amounts for the same ticket from several people,
always asking them to keep it secret.
A month before this, in April,
1985, K had put on tape another, much longer letter
which was likewise never sent. Below are some
extracts from it:
I am writing this to you, Rajagopal, because you
refuse to see me. During the Eerde days we began
to quarrel. Not me-you-I am not the quarrelling
type. You were a great bully, right from the beginning,
since the brother died. It began very gently at
first, mildly, then the bullying became stronger
and stronger I couldn't see anyone without telling
you whom I saw and then you would be bullying
me by saying: "Why are you seeing that person
and so on. There was nobody to supervise what
you were doing. In India you told them" give
money and don't ask what I am doing with it. It's
none of your business". You told them if
they wanted to know how it was spent you would
see to it that I did not come back to India. You
became like a tyrant which is really quite astonishing
how you began and how you have ended. You have
done the most terrible things. You really wanted
to kill the whole thing, the teachings, not physically
because that would be murder, and you would be
too frightened to do that, but you tried every
way-because you are a jealous person. Obviously
you are very jealous. You might not like to listen
to all this, or read all this, but you have to
be told directly how I look at all this after
all these years. And I couldn't, me, I couldn't
spend $10 without explaining to you every cent
how I spent it. You also told people in Holland
long before I broke with you, and in England,
that you were a very wealthy man. I couldn't believe
my ears; I was really appalled, how you could
become a wealthy man. Because we both started
poor. I never wanted money; I have no money now,
I don't want it, except I have a few clothes and
good shoes and ties, otherwise, I have really
nothing. And you, after all these years, by some
extraordinary cunning means have got millions.
The rest of this nine-page letter
is about much later events, dealing with what
led up to K's total break with Rajagopal in 1968
and the sebsequent lawsuits. Two years after the
writ was served on K by Rajagopal, 17 May, 1983,
K dictated that letter to Mary Zimbalist which
was never sent, passages of which have already
been quoted. Below are the final paragraphs from
it:
You must have schemed for years,
concealing, and deceiving everyone. I am sure
from what I have known of you that you have not
let your friends who call themselves trustees,
know all your manoeuvring to get the properties
for yourself Probably you have told them adverse
things about me. What you have you hold on to.
What you have was not given to you. It was given
to the Teachings out of generosity, devotion,
and you have exploited those who have sacrificed;
you have exploited me and you have the further
audacity to blackmail me.
You brought something into the case that had nothingding
to do with it for the purpose of blackmail. I
call you a blackmailer and others have said you
are an embezzler, to which you say nothing. Naturally.
This morning Mr Bee brought me a letter with a
statement for me to sign personally. In that letter
there is again the threat that is tantamount to
blackmail. Look, Rajagopal, I am really not frightened
of your going to court so kindly do not use that
threat any more. You who claim to be a Brahmin
have sunk so low that you betrayed everything
for your own personal power, secret manoeuvring
and egotistic jealousy. This is all I have to
say. This letter is not written in any spirit
of vengeance or to hurt your vanity. It is written
to point out what a deep abyss there is between
you and anything sacred and decent. If there were
any sense of honesty, fairness you would return
everything, behave like a decent, honourable man
and become a real Brahmin.
Commentary on the above by Daemon Silk, Director
GMAF.
It is an historical fact that K
was a profoundly bourgeois man with pretensions
and leanings toward the upper classes in Europe
and the landed and monied classes in the USA.
By dissolving the Order of the Star he merely
exchanged one set of funders for another and gained
considerable kudos for being a man alone traversing
a pathless land.
He was, later in his career, notoriously
close to and friendly with the corrupt and vile
Indian political despot Indira Gandhi at a time
she was suppressing the Indian masses and bestowing
illegal patronage on her sons and heirs.
K was never functionally in his
career supportive of the Indian underclass or
working class from which he sprang as the son
of an impoverished father and was cosseted throughout
his career by the likes of Miss Dodge, Lady Emily
Lutyens, Annie Besant et al who further provided
layers of protections between K and society at
large.
The publication of the distasteful
but revealing correspondence and documentation
originating this message thread simply reveals
K's fear of engagement with issues he knew did
not reveal him in a favourable light. He disingenuously
attempts to place all the responsibility for his
traumas on Rajagopal, despite the facts proving
otherwise as they would have been if revealed
in open court if the litigation between them had
proceeded and not been stopped when K capitulated.
All K had to do was to fire Rajagopal
when the first occasion of their incompatibility
arose, instead of behaving as a coward would and
putting up with what he describes later as an
abusive and bullying relationship with Rajagopal.
It is inconceivable that a person who claimed
the elevated consciousness K did could manifest
the dysfunctional and neurotic behaviour of a
battered but addicted spouse in relation to Rajagopal.
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