Testimonial letter from Ma Anand Suniti
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 Suniti. It is "Exhibit A-1952" 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 one page.
 Rajneeshpuram TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Since I have been a sannyasin, this is now for more than 5 years, I realize, how much my life completely changed. I been working for many years as a secretary for different companies. The way how I worked in it, I came in the morning, did what I had to do and left. Through my love with Bhagwan, through his teaching, something got changed. The first time in my life I come in real contact with people. I reach with my heart the person next to me and also receive the other one. More and more I become aware that I worked for so many years like a machine, not being aware of myself, not being aware of the others. I feel now having more responsibility for myself in my worship what means that mistakes getting much more less, because I care for my work and I like to give my best. During the festival the worship became very intense, so much work we needed to do. But through our each other loving and caring, we got much more and much better done, than if we would worked outside, without Him. This place is so different and so incredible beautiful and it is, because He is here. His silence is bringing me so deeply in contact with myself that my own love brings awareness and life in my worshipping. His teaching brings out to give much more, I feel I’m able to give and give and there is no end. Doing more hours is fun. Especially the worship here is with so much love, that each moment we do is so incredible beautiful Bhagwan’s teachings are giving all of us the capacity for doing more things we normally wouldn't do, because we risk more, we taking more responsibility for us for others. I’m thankful for all his teachings. To know He is a very outstanding person for exceptional abilities. Sincerely, |
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