How I met two of our closest Friends

Today I would like to tell you about a meeting in 2005 which was the beginning of a very close friendship, a family-like relation to two very lovely people. Maybe you remember that I mentioned a woman whom I had met in a restaurant in Mainz. She came for individual sessions and it really helped her quite a lot. She had had a baby and we had become friends. I had come to visit her before in her home, before, too, and also in 2005 I made a stop at her place. She and her husband had bought a flat in Wiesbaden and I stayed some days with them and their baby.

Whenever we had met, she had mentioned a long-time friend of hers who she thought I should really meet. She always wanted to invite him and had just never found the right time but she was sure that we would like each other – mainly because he was a very spiritual person, enthusiastic about India and especially about Indian music. Now finally, in their new house, it was the right moment for our meeting.

This friend and his wife came to meet and we spent a nice time together, talking about India and Indian music. He was indeed a spiritually interested man and a devoted musician. So we had a good time together but never did I think in that time that we would get such a strong connection to each other.

He told me later, in a talk among friends, that he had been a bit careful, if not to say skeptic, before our first meeting. He had been to India a couple of times and had made experiences with different gurus and different sects, both in India and in Europe. He had practically tried everything that was offered on the spiritual market from the Brahma Kumaris to ISKCON. When our common friend had spoken about me, he thought I would just be another guru. When we met, however he realized that there was something different – that I was not looking for followers.

I, from my part, had meetings like the one with him with many people nearly every day. There were always people who wanted to meet, friends, friends of friends, people whom I knew only a bit or not at all. Many came and with many it was not more than one meeting.

With these two people however, my friend’s friend and his wife, something more happened. From mere acquaintances, they turned to friends. It is not the first meeting that is important, it is what comes after that and especially in times when you experience changes in your life.

In a real friendship, a change of idea and philosophy won’t mean the end of a friendship. These two friends, whom I met in 2005, in the flat of a common friend, have since gone through good and bad times together with me and my family. We have celebrated together and we have cried together. We have talked for hours and we were silent with each other. We developed together, even if we were physically separate from each other. And through all, our love and friendship grew.