Testimonial letter from Ma Yoga Rabiya

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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 Yoga Rabiya (Rebecca M. Jackson). It is "Exhibit A-738" 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 2 pages.

To Whom It May Concern

Music has always been my life - music and helping people of all ages to experience its depth. However, it was not until I met my Master, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, that its true power of transforming and healing was revealed. Before that, it remained a glorious theory which only a few were even able to enjoy.

Music is indeed the bridge between body and spirit. All of the meditations devised by the genius of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh involve music and motion in proportions only a Master knows how to prescribe. From the beginning; however, it has always been His silence which is the catalyst of transformation. He often said that His words were only the means to lead us into silence, to provoke the music of our inner Buddha, to coax His awakening.

Through music and movement body and mind are helped to release their tensions and relax into a receptive state. At this point, one sees in a new way, one sees what meditation is - a deep relaxation into oneself... into silence, a deep allowing of the unknown to enter...in silence. And out of this silence comes all that is true, good and beautiful. Out of this silence comes the ability to move in the world, performing whatever tasks are needed, in a new way. You are, for the first time, present totally in your responses, and this totality transforms all into the divine.

This is the gift of the Master, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, to the world: the gift of His transforming silence, out of which comes love and life abundant for all who are thirsty. (And who is not thirsty? To be human is to thirst.) This has always been the gift of the Buddhas, of the Christs - their very existence is the gift... Out of the silent being of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh comes the art and science of living and the techniques by which this may be realized.

One has only to examine the preparations and successes of the First and Second Annual World Celebrations held at Rajneeshpuram to see action in non-action. All of us working unheard of hours with a joy and efficiency hitherto unknown, producing all the necessities for the Festivials in unimagined beauty. We are renewed by His loving energy as we work, as we live. If a division is needed between the spiritual and the practical, one need only to look at Rajneeshpuram, a place of worship, work and love made visible - made one - the expression of Rajneesh.

Only with a genius - and that is the natural being of a Master: one who is intelligence, one who is heart, one who is love, one who is the very music himself - just by being in His silence one learns to hear the real music.

Sometimes when one listens in harmony with Bach, Mozart and the composer giants, this may occur to some degree. Only with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, a Master, is another dimension added - that of meditation. One falls effortlessly into meditation, which is that space humans constantly seek through music, through art, through science, through whatever avenue is open to them - this is the home that we long for.

Music prepares the heart, dance stills the body and one drops into the deep silence which is His being, which is my being and your being, which is the All, God, the Unnameable, the ineffable Unknowable, which is Consciousness, Awareness Bliss, Love.

[signed]
Ma Yoga Rabiya
Buddhaghosha Temple
7/24/83


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