'Even though Ma's life story remains the same, the storyteller is different and that makes a huge difference,' she says. With this book, Sandhi hoped to fill the gaps. This soon became a hotbed of many controversies, leading to her incarceration. Appointing her as his personal secretary, Osho made only one request: He wanted his 'Seela' to find him a new paradise she found him his promised land several continents away at a ranch in Oregon, US. But it was only sometime after her husband, who suffered from Hodgkin's disease, passed on, that she began basking in Osho's glow. Sheela was already drawing a lot of attention for her ingenious ways of raising funds for the ashram. They'd soon join Osho in his Pune Ashram, together with the liberated folk, indulging in free love and sex, unrestrained by their naked bodies, alongside meditation. They became part of Osho's experimental cult, first spending a few tumultuous weeks at a flat in Breach Candy, which the couple shared with other sannyasins whose sexual appetite, left them aghast. The couple, rechristened Ma Anand Sheela and Swami Prem Chinmaya, abandoned hearth and family to be with Osho. She wrote to Marc about her encounter with the man who had swept her off her feet curious, he decided to join her. At the time, Sheela was happily married to Marc Silverman, an American of Jewish descent, and like most of her siblings, had settled in the US. While Sheela was enchanted by Osho as a young girl, it was only seven years later in 1971, when she met the man, now elevated to Bhagwan Rajneesh, again during a visit to Bombay, that she knew she wanted to serve him. I haven't heard one story of Rajneesh without the mention of Sheela.' To me they are as much as two sides of the same coin.
'They are inseparable, and go hand in hand. The identities of Sheela and Rajneesh are dependent on each other, feels Sandhu.
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