Mati

    I went to Pune in March 1988. And as soon as I came into the ashram I just knew that this was it. The first time I saw Osho in discourse I just laughed and cried. Avirbhava was giving sannyas at that time and when I went to the office I was laughing and crying. She didn’t do the usual interview because there was nothing to say.
    For the next seven years I kept coming and going between Pune and Canada. After a while I started to work in the darkroom. At the time it was in a very small barn by the stream where the Pyramids are now. Osho would come out for discourse and then immediately after, the guys would come in the darkroom with the film and develop it and then I’d get to print all the pictures. And the magic was to see Osho come out of the darkness – there was this white light coming out on paper. I knew it was the photography process but for me it was magic.
    The only problem I had there was that I used to print Osho very white because all I could see was white light. A few times people came up to me and said, you have to remember that he’s Indian – he needs to be darker than that.

(excerpted from Mati's article in Osho Pulse)

Ma Deva Mati, Canadian