Testimonial letter from Ma Divyam Anurati
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 Divyam Anurati. It is "Exhibit A-2569" 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.
 MA DIVYAM ANURATI - MIASTO RAJNEESH Neo-Sannyas Commune To whom it may concern: I am a 25 year old sannyasin and I am living in a neo-sannyas commune in Italy. After a long period of trying to solve my personal problems, I visited Poona to make some therapeutic groups. I became a disciple of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in March 1981. Back in Germany there was not a big change of my life on the outside. I went back to my hometown and finished my studies. But the meditations of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh became part of my daily life and I felt that more and more joy, happiness, inner freedom and responsability for myself was arising. I am happy that I had the possibility to visit Rajneeshpuram this year and to see Bhagwan again. To stay with him in silence let me feel the eternity and the beauty of life. For this kind of feeling no words are needed - it cannot be expressed in words. The town of Rajneeshpuram is like an oasis in the desert. It is the place which gives many people the chance to meet Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. As the last festival in July 1983 was showing many people are interested to visit Bhagwan in order to stay with him in silence and to get something very very deep which can change the quality of the daily life. Faithfully, |
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