Testimonial letter from Ma Divyam Shraddha
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 Shraddha (Telênia Maria de Fenna Hill ). It is "Exhibit A-2435" 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.
 Rio de Janeiro, august 4th, 1983 To whom it may concern, I took sannyas in July, 81. Bhagwan had just stopped talking. We were all surprised, sannyasins and non-sannyasins. I was planning to take a trip to India to see and hear the master in december. In august Bhagwan moved. We were astonished. But we kept on meditating. The atmosphere of love was there, the work of the master was there: "Use the red clothes, use the "mala" which is given to you an d meditate one hour daily. Gather with your friends and celebrate." c The work master-disciple with Bhagwan is a comunnion from heart to heart. No need of words! You feel his presence somehow, you feel you’re very close-friends, and that he is taking you by the hand through the woods, through a beautiful path he knows from long. You just trust this old friend. He says he is going to take you to the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen. You love him deeply (and you may hate him also), you trust him (and you fear him sometimes), you go with him. Bhagwan talked for ten years in his ashram in Poona , India. Is that not enough? Ten years trying to talk about things which cannot be comprehended through words... Isn’t that enough time? And even though he has personally stopped talking, there is all kinds of media spreading his words, his image, his energy around the world: video tapes and tapes of discourses and celebrations, newspapers, magazines and over 300 book titles. He is talking, he is just not moving his lips! I have just given my hand to Bhagwan. He is much alive in myself. Bhagwan is my own heart beating his thirst for LIFE because it is LIFE all he is! With his silence, Bhagwan is saying to us: ”Go live your lifes, go and do your own things, whatsoever you have chosen to do. Just bring a new dimension into your days, the dimension of consciousness, alertness, awareness.”
I've been a sannyasin for two years new. I live in Rio de Janeiro and study psychology at the Federal University of Rio. In july, last year, I was in Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, for the FIRST ANNUAL WORLD CELEBRATION. Positively, there is much work and love put on that tired land, trying to bring it into life again. It Is that all we want, work, live, love. We are not asking much, are we? Yours, sincerely |
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