Editing Jiddu Krishnamurti (section)

===Middle years===
From 1930 through 1944 Krishnamurti engaged in speaking tours and in the issue of publications under the auspice of the "''Star Publishing Trust''" (SPT), which he had founded with Desikacharya Rajagopal, a close associate and friend from the ''Order of the Star''.{{efn|Born in India in 1900 and of Brahmin descent, Rajagopal had moved in Krishnamurti's circle since early youth. Although regarded as an excellent editor and organizer, he was also known for his difficult personality and high-handed manner. Upon Nitya's death, he had promised Besant that he would look after Krishnamurti. See Henri Methorst, ''Krishnamurti A Spiritual Revolutionary'', Edwin Publishing House, 2003, ch 12.}} Ojai was the base of operations for the new enterprise, where Krishnamurti, Rajagopal, and Rosalind Williams (who had married Rajagopal in 1927) resided in the house known as ''Arya Vihara'' (meaning ''Realm of the Aryas'', i.e. those noble by righteousness in [[Sanskrit]]). The business and organizational aspects of the SPT were administered chiefly by D. Rajagopal, as Krishnamurti devoted his time to speaking and meditation. The Rajagopals' marriage was not a happy one, and the two became physically estranged after the 1931 birth of their daughter, Radha.<ref>''Lives in the Shadow with J. Krishnamurti'' by Radha Rajagopal Sloss, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1991, ch 12.</ref>  Krishnamurti's friendship with Rosalind became a love affair. According to Radha Rajagopal Sloss, the affair between Krishnamurti and Rosalind began in 1932 and it endured for about twenty-five years.{{efn|The two also shared an interest in education: Krishnamurti helped to raise Radha, and the need to provide her with a suitable educational environment led to the founding of the ''Happy Valley School'' in 1946. The school has since re-established itself as an independent institution operating as the [http://www.besanthill.org/ Besant Hill School Of Happy Valley]. See Sloss, "Lives in the Shadow," ch 19.}}{{efn|Radha's account of the relationship, ''Lives in the Shadow With J. Krishnamurti'', was first published in England by Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd. in 1991, and was soon followed by a rebuttal volume written by Mary Lutyens, ''Krishnamurti and the Rajagopals'', Krishnamurti Foundation of America, 1996, in which she acknowledges the relationship but was never confirmed by Krishnamurti himself.}}{{efn|Mark Lee: I heard it from Erna Lillifelt, who learned it from Krishnaji. Krishnaji has told Mary Zimbalist and Erna Lilliefelt that there was something that Rajagopal had against him. They asked him what it was. And he said "I had sexual relations with that woman". See Padmanabhan Krishna, "A jewel on a silver platter", Ch 8.}} Radha Sloss, daughter of Rajagopal, wrote about the affair in her book ''[[Lives in the Shadow with J. Krishnamurti]]''.

During the 1930s Krishnamurti spoke in Europe, Latin America, India, Australia and the United States. [[George Bernard Shaw]] in his later years was acquainted with Krishnamurti  and declared Krishnamurti to be the "most beautiful human being" he had ever met.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Moody |first=David Edmund |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-lBbBgAAQBAJ&q=jiddu+krishnamurti+schools |title=The Unconditioned Mind: J. Krishnamurti and the Oak Grove School |date=2013-01-07 |publisher=Quest Books |isbn=978-0-8356-3034-4 |language=en}}</ref>  In 1938 he met [[Aldous Huxley]].<ref>Vernon, "Star in the East," p 205.</ref> The two began a close friendship which endured for many years. They held common concerns about the imminent conflict in Europe which they viewed as the outcome of the pernicious influence of nationalism.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.journal.kfionline.org/issue-1/aldous-huxley-and-krishnamurti | title = Journal of the Krishnamurti Schools | access-date = 4 June 2018}}</ref> Krishnamurti's stance on [[World War II]] was often construed as pacifism and even [[subversion]] during a time of patriotic fervor in the United States and for a time he came under the surveillance of the [[FBI]].<ref>Vernon, "Star in the East," p 209.</ref> He did not speak publicly for a period of about four years (between 1940 and 1944). During this time he lived and worked at ''Arya Vihara'', which during the war operated as a largely self-sustaining farm, with its surplus goods donated for relief efforts in Europe.<ref>Vernon, "Star in the East," p 210.</ref> Of the years spent in Ojai during the war he later said: "I think it was a period of no challenge, no demand, no outgoing. I think it was a kind of everything held in; and when I left Ojai it all burst."<ref>Jayakar, "Krishnamurti" p 98.</ref>

Krishnamurti broke the hiatus from public speaking in May 1944 with a series of talks in Ojai. These talks, and subsequent material, were published by "''Krishnamurti Writings Inc.''" (KWINC), the successor organisation to the "''Star Publishing Trust''." This was to be the new central Krishnamurti-related entity worldwide, whose sole purpose was the dissemination of the teaching.<ref>Lutyens, "Fulfillment," Farrar, Straus hardcover, p 59-60. Initially, Krishnamurti (along with Rajagopal and others) was a trustee of KWINC. Eventually he ceased being a trustee, leaving Rajagopal as President–a turn of events that according to Lutyens, constituted ''"... a circumstance that was to have most unhappy consequences."''</ref> He had remained in contact with associates from India, and in the autumn of 1947 embarked on a speaking tour there, attracting a new following of young intellectuals.{{efn|These included former freedom campaigners from the Indian Independence Movement, See Vernon, "Star in the East," p 219.}} On this trip he encountered the Mehta sisters, Pupul and Nandini, who became lifelong associates and confidants. The sisters also attended to Krishnamurti throughout a 1948 recurrence of the "''process''" in [[Ooty|Ootacamund]].<ref>See Jayakar, "Krishnamurti," ch 11 for Pupul Mehta's (later Jayakar) eyewitness account.</ref> In [[Poona]] in 1948, Krishnamurti met [[B. K. S. Iyengar|Iyengar]], who taught him [[Asana|Yoga practices]] every morning for the next three months, then on and off for twenty years.<ref>Elliot Goldberg, ''The Path of Modern Yoga'' (Rochester VT: Inner Traditions 2016), p. 380.</ref>

When Krishnamurti was in India after World War II many prominent personalities came to meet him, including Prime Minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]. In his meetings with Nehru, Krishnamurti elaborated at length on the teachings, saying in one instance, "Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action." Nehru asked, "How does one start?" to which Krishnamurti replied, "Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought."<ref>Jayakar, "Krishnamurti," p 142.</ref>