Testimonial letter from Ma Veet Yamini
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 Veet Yamini (Miss Hiroko Kurosu). It is "Exhibit A-2665" 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.
 [Date cut off, off-edge of photocopy] To Whom it May Concern, I lived in society because I didn’t have enough courage to become an outsider. I kept tring to escape from myself, because I felt I would never beable to fit into society. While I was walking on such paths I began to suffer from a terrible neurosis. I needed a lot of help from many people to be able to start living with myself. During this period I had a desire to drop out from this world. This desire became stronger and stronger and began to develope an interest in meditation and austerities. I felt the existance of something that could not be expressed with words. When I came across Bhagwan’s book entitled " Meditation : The Art of Ectasy ", the word "Meditation" on the back cover started to open everything in me. Finding His books was a great joy for me, I found what I had been searching for. It was a strong encounter for me, I felt that I had always been His disciple so it was easy for me to take sannyas. I had hoped to be given some words from Bhagwan while words were still somethink important to me. However I gradually began to feel that it was futile to communicate by words alone, more was needed and I felt irritated because I could not express myself with words in a satisfactory way. Little by little verbal communication became unnecessary for me I stopped asking so many questions. When I visited Rajneeshpuram I could feel something beyond words and space. I began to be unmasked, all the unwanted things outside of me began to dissappear. May be I am going into this space beyond words. I met Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in the November of 1981 and became His disciple in January of 1982. Regards |
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