Testimonial letter from Ma Anand Nartan
This letter is one of a remarkable series of over 2650 letters amassed in 1983 to support Osho's attempt to get permanent resident status in the US at the time of the Oregon ranch. The image is reproduced here with the kind permission of The Oregon Historical Society. Information about their collection of these letters and other supporting material -- the "Jeffrey Noles Rajneesh Collection", named for Osho's immigration lawyer Jeffrey Noles, who compiled them in 1983 and donated them to the OHS -- can be found at this page. The wiki is grateful to the OHS for making access available for these documents. For more information and links to all the letters, see Testimonial letters.
This letter is from Ma Anand Nartan (Fujiko N. Nakazawa). It is "Exhibit A-1365" in the Noles collection.
The text version below has been created by optical character recognition (OCR), from the images supplied by OHS. It has not been checked for errors but this process usually results in over 99% correct transcription. Most apparent "errors" are correct transcriptions of typos already in the original. The image on the right in the text box links to a pdf file of the original letter, it has 2 pages.
 MA ANAND NARTAN To Whom It May Concern: To intorduce myself, I am a qualified Architect with a B.A. in Architectural Design. I graduated from Tokyo University in 1969, and then became a staff member of the Institute of Anthropology of Buildings in Kyoto, Japan, until 1975. Also, I studied in the United States as an audit student in the graduate school of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University for two consecutive terms in 1970, then did research on the American Architect, Louis Sullivan, for the Department of Architecture at MIT, for the spring of 1972. Though I have been working most of the time in the theory and history or architecture, my main interest has always been in the field of housing, both individual and mass planning. Yet it was not easy in such a patriachal ccmpetetive society as Japan, to carry out my visions as a woman architect. When I became a disciple of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, really, I could not imagine that the transformation, with the guidance of this spiritual leader, would extend from the inner world to the physical matters of my own field. Personal changes which kept occuring inside myself did free me from all sorts of cultural conditionings of the society I had come from, yet didn’t free the society itself; that's how I was thinking. However, it was not necessary. Something totally extraordinary and new, something which I had only in dreams started to be seen in the sites of Rajneeshpuram under the guidance of my own Master, Bhagwan! Here, the housing coordination has been realized by female quality. Care and consideration which only female quality (I don’t mean just woman, I mean the soft, gentle qualities that every human being carries) were brought out, and are actually designed into all the buildings. My last dream now is to invite all my fellow architects and professors and historians to witness by themselves this proof to what a great spiritual leader can accomplish. I trust in American’s intelligence, not to let any mishandlings happen of this exceptional quality of man, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Yours sincerely, |
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