at Adyar and
do the work of Assistant Correspondence
Secretary of the Esoteric Section.
The plaintiff had at the
time very great respect and veneration for the defendant,
whom he regarded as his spiritual preceptress and whom
he credited with more than human attributes, and he agreed
to serve her as the Assistant Correspondence Secretary with—
out receiving from her any remuneration
whatever.
The
plaintiff
accordingly took up his abode at Adyar
along
with his second and third sons, J. Krishnamurti and J.
Nityananda, who are respectively aged
17 and
14.
The
boys
were
receiving
their
education
in
the
Penathoor
Subramanyam High School at Mylapore, Madras.
But as
Mr.
R.
B.
Clarke
and
Mr.
C.
W.
Leadbeater
of the
Theosophical Society undertook their education, and as the
boys were
not making
much progress in their studies,
the plaintiff stOpped them from school and put them under
their charge at Adyar.
In or about December 1909 the
defendant, who is frequently on tour in connection with her
theosophical work, returned to India and promised to help
undertake the future education of the boys.
Accordingly the
plaintiff stopped the boys from school altogether and kept
them with himself at Adyar.
4. About the beginning of 1910 the defendant requested
the plaintiff to give a letter constituting her the guardian
of the boys; and after some persuasion both on the part
of the defendant and Sir S. Subramania Iyer, for whom the
plaintiff had great respect, the plaintiff gave such letter,
especially as the defendant had assured the plaintiff that
the only reason for asking the letter was that after the
plaintiffs lifetime his relations might give trouble~ to the
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