Vee told me the story that when she was 13 her mother took her along to a Transcendental Meditation group in her hometown of Alzenau, Germany. She liked it very much and from that point got the idea in her head that she wanted to be "enlightened".
At 20 she heard about Rajneesh and soon made her way to Pune, India. For the next 20 years or so she was involved in the Osho world. She was very dedicated and worked hard to get enlightened.
When she was 40, about 10 years after Osho died, she was working hard in her career and had 'given up on teachers'. Some friends mentioned a man called UG, who was visiting Köln. "You should meet him, he is very different from Osho."
Reluctantly, she went along one afternoon for the visit. At the top of several flights of stairs in an old building they entered a small apartment. Sitting there in front of about 10 people was a small, older man. She sat down, waited and watched, and listened to the rather uninteresting chat. After an hour she left, feeling slightly disappointed. "Is that it?" she asked her friends.
The next day there was the chance to see UG again, but she was not very enthusiastic. She felt that it was not the time to be searching out another teacher. Finally she decided to visit once more.
She entered the little flat again and this day UG looked up at her and smiled. "But where did you go yesterday? We missed saying good-bye to you!" he said. At this unexpected remark, Vee got tears in her eyes. She had no idea that he had the slightest interest in her presence the day before.
"There was something about UG which was so direct and affecting. He was so casual that you would almost forget that he was such an extraordinary person. But then he would say something which seemed to be only for you, as if you were the only one who could hear it. This would have such a strong effect. There is no real way to describe it, but it would change your whole life."
Vee spent the next 6 years visiting UG whenever she could, in Europe, India and California.
The above photo was taken in Vallecrosia, Italy, not long before UG's death in 2007. Vee also died in 2011. On the table next to her bed in her last days was just one photo, of UG.
