Testimonial letter from Ma Ananda Sarita

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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 Ananda Sarita. It is "Exhibit A-689" in the Noles collection.

The original letter was handwritten. The image below links to a pdf file of the original letter. It has 3 pages.

There is still no transcription of the handwritten portion of Sarita's letter but below is the transcription of her citation of Osho's words to her about dancing:

Taken from: Nirvana: The Last Nightmare, Chapter 4
"God is a dancer. He is not a creator in the sense of a painter; he is a creator in the sense of a dancer. Then let me say it in another way. God is not a creator but creativity ... a dynamic energy. The moment you say creator, he is dead. The very word "creator" has a full stop in it. Creativity with an open end, tremendously moving and moving and reaching to higher and higher peaks ...
The animals are a dance of god. The trees are also a dance of god. Humanity is also a dance of god, reaching higher and higher. God is moving faster and faster - more mad, more fast, getting dissolved into his dance. A Buddha or a Jesus is the ultimate of his dance ... where the dancer is so completely drunk and mad that he has become the dance. Thats why I say that if you live life in its dynamism you will come closer to god - because he is still dancing."


(Please note: We assume that the above letter is still copyrighted, but we regard its historical interest to constitute a Fair Use exception for publication in this wiki.)