Testimonial letter from Ma Sarito
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 Sarito. It is "Exhibit A-2578" 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 Sarito To whom it may concern. I am 25 years old and living in Toscana, Italy, in a commune of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. My first contact with this spiritual Master was in 1980, while travelling through India. All my life I have been searching - searching for humanity, for inner and outer peace, for a living alive. In the political movement I was fighting for human life, for a different consciousness in the people. In my profession as a social pedagogist I was working with schizophrenic people and my goal was to reintegrate them into reality. After many years spent working in these movements I was quite frustrated. Nothing had really changed. In 1980 in the commune of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in Poona for the first time I felt the people there were really alive. Through this they had an inner peace I had always been searching for. I discovered that the change had to begin in myself. Through Bhagwan’s teachings and the inner growth program of His commune (meditations, work and groups) I learnt to get to know myself and to be honest with myself and with others. Now since three years I am a disciple of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. I visited many of His communes, I have been in Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, where He is living and working, twice. Specially in His presence I feel what it means to be with a spiritual Master. In complete silence I experience His energy transforming my whole being. I feel that Bhagwan is a spiritual Master who can help the whole humanity to live in peace, and for this I feel very thankful to Him. [signed] |
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