Testimonial letter from Ma Satyam Zina
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 Zina (Zina Voltis Gruzman). It is "Exhibit A-340" in the Noles collection.
The original letter was handwritten in Portuguese, 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 5 pages.
 translationZina Voltis Gruzman To Who It May Concern Zina Voltis Gruzman, graduated by the Universidade Fluminense of Me dicine in 1972 (Brasil), specialization in Psychiatry. Having done internship for three months in Children Psychiatry at the National Hospital in Tokyo, Japan (1972). Specializing courses in Clinic Psychiatry at the Brazilian Academy of Military Medicine (1976). Having presented thesis on Parasymbology in the Second Brazilian Convention of Psychiatry (1976), Having worked as assistant therapist at the Course of Somatherapy with Roberto Freire (1978), Having worked as a clinic physhiatrist at several private and government hospitals for 10 years, having been approved in two public bids and having worked the last four years in the First Aid Psychiatry Room at the Central Hospital of the Navy. Also having done therapy based in bio-energetics, bio-dance, gestalt and somatherapy. With specializing courses in homeopathy, oriental medicine. My first contact with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh happened through a workshop which I fortunately participated in 1981. For some years I had been searching for something deeper. All the therapeutic techniques I had known did not satisfy me, they were incomplete. After having participated in this workshop led by a sannyasin therapist (disciple of Bhagwan), a real transformation started to happen in my being. I started then to read religious books, to practice meditations and to participate in other therapeutic groups led by sannyasins (with techniques devised by Bhagwan). Little by little my neurotic defenses were falling, as well as my masks. I started to have a more intimate contact with my essence. Bhagwan, Master of Masters gives us the possibility of dinding the Buddha, God, Love which is within us. He is teaching us the Psychology of the Buddhas. Bhagwan starts where Freud, Jung, Reich, Fritz Perls and others finished. He is a true genius. Besides, words cannot express His grandeur. He is the light which can lighten darkness we are living in this end of the century. He is able to joing Science and Religion; Oriental and Occidental Philosophy; Technology and Pray(?) Work and Meditation; Material and Spiritual Progress. He shows us the best of knowledge of all the history of humanity. And what is more important, he shows us in practice that Love is possible to be lived. When I found Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Iwas sure I had finally found the way of the Truth, which I had always been searching for. I feel really grateful, blissed. My life has changed for the better, a found the joy of living, of loving, of sharing. And as I am transformed, I help others to be transformed. We can note that through my clients and my family. Bhagwan is the catalystic agent to higher our level of consciousness. He does not need anymore to communicate with words. He has transmitted, during several years of daily discourses, all that could be taught. There is nothing more to be added intellectually. How is time to experience, to enjoy His silence which brings us total peace, and to show humanity that it is still possible to live together in a true communion of Love, Truth, Religion and Science. And all this can only be achieved in the presence of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, our Contemporaneous Enlightened Master. July 20, 1983 |
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