Testimonial letter from Ma Satya Karin
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 Satya Karin (Karin Bargheer). It is "Exhibit A-1904" in the Noles collection.
The original letter was handwritten in German, a text transcription has not yet been created. A text version of its translation 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.
The image in the text box links to a pdf file with the original letter, the translation, and a notary statement attesting to the validity of the translation. It has 4 pages.
 translationKarin Bargheer "To Whom It May Concern" My name is Ma Satya Karin, legal name Karin Bargheer, 42 years old. I am a trained potter and have been working as a free-lance artist for six years. I've been teaching my subject for the last six years. I'm a member of a group of women artists known all over Germany. I have taken part in a lot of exhibitions and competitions. I've been Bhagwan's sannyasin for three years and in these three years the artistic has increasingly been crystalized in my work. Before it was useful handicraft, with Bhagwan's help it becomes more. After becoming a sannyasin I got a job in the town Wedel to teach pottery in the Adult Education Centre. Bhagwan is a spiritual teacher who has taught me that God is creativity, and that I can only thank God for my existence if I am creative myself. In the Spring of 1980 I read a book about Bhagwan, flew to Poona in the summer of 1980 and experienced Bhagwan personally. A lot of worries and sadness have disappeared from my life since then. Now Bhagwan's teachings and my creativity fill my life, and I'm now in the position to be a good pottery teacher to my students. My ceramics get bought in spite of the bad economic situation because they have improved so much so that I could employ an apprentice. I now travel to Bhagwan as often as possible to gain even more strength in his presence. Cordial greetings. |
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