"There was nobody home!" - Lulu

Brockwood Park school

That was the time before his 49th birthday, UG had moved into Saanen in Switzerland before the Calamity (Enlightenment). He continued to attend a few last lectures of Jiddu Krishnamurti,  turned out they were some of his final encounters with JK.

Lulu and Edward Ani, the Jewish couple were regulars at JK's 'circus' tent and spent their summers in Saanen. Lulu, an intellectual with a keen mind incidentally is among the very few   like Barry to have interacted with UG, before and after Calamity. The couple finds a mention in several places in the fabulous book, 'The Biology of Enlightenment',  the transcript of UG's recorded conversations post  'enlightenment '. The book is a great tribute, a work of  love and devotion by Dr. Mukunda Rao.

Once when I visited the couple at Burgess Hill near London,. energetic Eddie drove us all to the Downs and beyond up to the English Channel. En route, Lulu and Eddie shared their relationship with both Krishnamurtis. 

Lulu then narrated her maiden encounter with UG, a fascinating account!

Lulu was present on that day at JK's tent. His talk revolved around the theme of children and education. Those were the days before JK established his world renowned schools at Brockwood Park, Rishi Valley etc. Lulu and Eddie's daughter was  to study at Brockwood Park later.

On that day in the tent, as JK  elaborated on the kind of education system and schools that could create flowers out of children, suddenly there was a commotion at the back of the tent.Someone at the back stood up and cried out loud denouncing the talk as an exercise in futility, arguing that such a thing made no sense whatsoever!

  Not just that, after making his point, loud and clear, the protestor defiantly walked out of the tent to the utter shock and surprise of many  JKites in the audience. Lulu, quite a maverick herself was  surprised and  wondered at the guts of the man. She wasted no time, got up and promptly followed him out of the tent! She couldn't wait to find out who it was that dared to lock horns with JK, the World Teacher! She caught up with UG , found out that he lived near by in a chalet.  UG sounded unusual but was very cordial and open for any meetings and discussions.

Lulu and Eddie started meeting both JK and UG during their subsequent visits to Saanen.

 After het first encounter with UG in JK's tent , Lulu met UG during the following summer. By then UG had been hit by the 'Calamity' .This literally triggered off mind shattering physiological processes, blasting his every nerve cell, dislodging the 'thought structure' and  wiping out his 'autobiographical self'.  'He' was completely blown out! 

 To Lulu, at the time, UG appeared like someone who had been hit by a bolt of lightning! She dramatised how UG looked, tapping her forehead with her knuckles, she explained , " There was nobody home!" indicating that the 'self' or 'entity' called 'UG Krishnamurti' had been completely wiped out of the system!  

UG personally reiterated this well known fact once when I got an opportunity to drive him from Bombay to Lonavala, the only time I ever got to be his chauffeur! Getting into the car he said, " I can count only the three of you here! Yourself  and the two ladies (Melissa and Trisha), there is no one here ( pointing to himself )!" 

For UG, the ghost of the 'self' or 'ego' had been exorcised once and for all during Calamity ! The mutation finished 'him' completely and irrevocably! Then on, he aptly began describing himself as a 'biological freak'!