Testimonial letter from Ma Satyam Mridula
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 Satyam Mridula. It is "Exhibit A-2273" 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.
 1st August 1983 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : I was a housewife attending college to get a degree in Linguistics, and feeling an empty meaninglessness about life when a friend handed me "The Tale of The Sands" by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. I read it and two days later the impact of it hit me because I felt it described exactly the situation I was in. I had never heard of Bhagwan, and took him to be a Sufi Master of the past. Then I heard that this Master was ALIVE, and living in Oregon, U.S.A. From that moment on I read everything I could find of His, always discovering that what I needed guidance on was the topic discussed in the books I kept borrowing, buying, ordering etc. as if some very precise guidance was gently given me in this surprising way. I started doing Bhagwan’s meditations and a new life-loving energy flowed from me. I wrote in March 1982 asking if I could visit the ashram, and was told that visitors were not accepted for the time being. When I heard that a Festival was to be held in July, I felt I could not miss the opportunity to be near Bhagwan. I came to the 1982 Festival and became a disciple. I felt such deep love and gratitude for all that happened to me that I wanted to live near Him and find it incredible that this is possible. [signed] |
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