Testimonial letter from Babu Ram Gupta

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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 Babu Ram Gupta. It is "Exhibit A-540" 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.

B. R. GUPTA
Phone - Resi. : 448574
Office : 54749 • 27350
24-A Gidney Park,
Salisbury Park, PUNE-1

TO WHOMSOEVER IT MAY CONCERN

I, Babu Ran Gupta, residing at 24-A Gidney Park, Pune - 411 001 do hereby state as under :

THAT I have been listening the taped discourses of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh for last 2 years. I find that these discourses lead to the real religiousness to anybody who listens them meditatively. My feeling is that Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is preaching the religion which is very much concerned with the human beings of this century. All other traditional religions are based on some sort of superflousness but Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh preaches the religion which is based on understanding and rationalism. He finds beautiful religious quality throughout the old religions but at the same time attacks very severely which is just dead and traditional in such religions. According to me he is the real religious teacher who can lead the humanity to right religious quality. I also feel that for the benefit of human kind at large he should be honoured in each part of the world and be studied minutely so that if one finds something worth for his life will be able to practice the same. I am sure millions and millions people will find light through such studies.

[signed]
( B. R. GUPTA )
Ex-Chairman, Poona
Contractors Coop.
Bank Limited, Poona.


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