Encountering Bliss (My Journey through India with Anandamayi Ma)

MELITA MASCHIMANN was at the helm of the affairs in Germany during the Nazi period. She was an active member of the Youth wing of the Party. At the end of the war, she realized that she was supporting a wrong cause, and she openly opposed the movement which was started again immediately after the War. The result was that she was hounded. She escaped to Afghanistan and earned her livelihood there as a journalist for German newspapers. In the summer of 1962, she wanted to return to Germany, but after travelling in India for a fortnight, "A sheer coincidence" brought her to Anandamayi Ma. She cancelled all her travel plans, stayed with Ma, traveled through India with her, and made India her home.