Testimonial letter from Ma Sangit Mitta
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 Sangit Mitta (Luzivone Damaceno Mendes). It is "Exhibit A-1764" 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 3 pages.
 TO WHOM MAY CONCERN My legal name is LUZIVONE DAMACENO MENDES, I'm brasilian, I’m married, and I got three daughters, I work in a Bank and my actress is: Rua T-53 Q.91 L.12 Setor,Bueno -Goi ania -Geias- Brasil. My sannyas name is:MA SANGIT MITTA Aproximately may 1981 my husband was getting together with a group of persons with the purpose of meitating: as he told me they were practicing some new techniques created by an Hindu Master. By that time I was practicing Jazz at a dance school at the same time they were getting together. Then, one day in a store of Natural products I faced the book ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY by BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH. I bought the book and started reading it, and I got profoundly touched by what I was reading. My husband then told me that the techiniques of meditation they were practicing were created by Bhagwan. So, I immediately stop my Jazz classes and started practicing some techniques with them. At that time I already had a taste for meditation, transcenden talism, Indian masters like Ramakrisna, Yogananda, Krisnamurti and all those oriental influences, I had also read books by all those authors and I got wondered with all they say, I felt that they had flourished in me what any other religion in the world hadn't yet dene. But even so, I couldn't follow then, they were beautiful readings but wouldn’t take me no further. Now, experimenting the techniques of meditation created by Bhagwan I immediatly felt in the deep of myself that I had found the way and the person who would send me back to the Divine. Once, when in one of my friends' house I saw the fhoto of that Master I felt such creat identification that my heart even inflated with happiness. Soon after I bought the book "I AM THE GATE", of his authorship, and I couldn't read it so great was the convulsion of cry and laugh that took over myself, I felt myself getting into heavens, and all I always wanted to read or hear was there. BHAGWAN encouraged me, persuaded me, stimulated me, no matter how difficult it was to go in search of myself, understanding human mature and transcending it. So, I bought a few of his books, in which he describes techniques of meditation and I've been practicing then since then, specially the one he most recommends: The Dynamic Meditation. Thus I became a sannyasin in june of 1982, a living-Witness of his work with us, in the practicing of the techniques created by him. Now I see myself in the way of a profund transformation, of a concientization of what I belive I an, of What really is. And the more I practice RAJNEESH'S techniques of meditation and more I get connected to RAJNEESH'S being I feel growing in me an enormous love for all the things, an indiscribable happiness, a profound unification and harmony. Now, BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH'S silence is in my opinion, the liviest strength, the most transcending and actuating power that could ever exist, and magic of all the words in all languagues in the world could never contain it. It's something astounding, inexplicable, and to feel what I feel there's only one way which is getting connected to him to know the creatness of his compassion and his infinite love thrown over ourselves. To conclude with I say that I really feel in hum the most precious good, the balance between everythings, everything getting connected, fusing and interacting in the most perfect harmony. [signed] |
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