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CHAPTER 3. IN SEARCH OF A LOST TREASUREhe was completely trained for it. Even books were written in his name by Leadbeater. A great book,AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER, is supposed to have been written by him when he was thirteenyears of age – and he himself does not remember! Later on when asked, ”Have you written thisbook?” He said, ”I don’t remember.” The reality is, he never wrote that book. That book – and I havelooked deeply into Leadbeater’s other books – is in the same style. It is the same man, Leadbeater,who has written that book in the name of J. Krishnamurti. It is to prove to the world that it is not anordinary human being, but a divine incarnation – that at the age of thirteen he was writing such agreat book.The book is certainly great, and Leadbeater was a very articulate writer and well-studied man. Hechose J. Krishnamurti and his brother Nityananda just when Krishnamurti was nine years old.Those two boys were playing in the river, near Adyar in Madras, where the headquarters of theTheosophical Movement was. Leadbeater saw those two boys swimming and enjoying in the river,throwing water at each other. And he was certainly a very perceptive man – he could see thatsomething great was possible with these two boys. He found three other boys. They all becamegreat in their own fields.Nityananda died because of too much discipline. He was a very fragile person. They had to wake upat three o’clock, to go through all kinds of rituals, to listen to scriptures, to eat only certain things...One of the great difficulties with Leadbeater was, he was a homosexual. And he abused every child,including J. Krishnamurti. There was a case against Leadbeater in Madras High Court. When thefather of these two children – he was a poor man, a poor clerk whose wife had died and so he wasin trouble about how to manage these two boys and his office... So when Leadbeater proposed theidea that Annie Besant could adopt them, the father was very happy. Annie Besant was a worldfamouswoman.He gave the adoption to Annie Besant, but it was discovered by many people that those smallchildren had been sexually abused by Leadbeater. So the man appealed to the high court: ”I wantmy children to be returned me. They are being homosexually abused by Leadbeater.”To avoid the situation, the judge was ready to return the children because there were witnessesof this abuse. Annie Besant, being a very famous British woman, managed to smuggle all thosechildren to England before the court orders were passed. This was easy for her because India wasunder British rule, and Annie Besant was a powerful woman. So she managed to take the childrenout of the country.Then when the magistrate’s orders were issued, saying that the children should be returned, thechildren were not there.She did not put those children, J. Krishnamurti included, into any state school. This was sucha guarded phenomenon – in a public school he may have started smoking, he may have startedbehaving like ordinary students. He was kept almost a prisoner. Private tutors were teaching him,and all kinds of nonsense – religious, scriptural – was forced upon him.All this created a situation in which he revolted.Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 49 Osho