Testimonial letter from Kanta Advani

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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 Mrs Kanta Advani. It is "Exhibit A-548" 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.

6, Sunder Nagar
New Delhi, 20.7.83

TO WHOM-SO-EVER IT MAY CONCERN

I first heard Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s tapes in Bombay in January 1977 at a friend’s house. After that I continued to borrow his tapes and books from various friends. In Nairobi in January 1977, I met an old friend called Mrs Krishna Arya, whom I had known since 1950, when she was a student at the London School of Economics and I was studying for my Law at the Lincon’s Inn in London. She had been a disciple of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh the same year.

But it was not until October 1980 that I had the good fortune to go to Poona and see and hear Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in person. Needless to say, I went, I saw and I was conquered.

I felt if the whole world could listen only 1/100 of his teachings there would be no more world wars. He is not a RELIGIOUS teacher in the normal sense of the word, because he teaches no religion. But he teaches you to be truly RELIGIOUS by repeating all the great religions of the world and not only blindly following or acclaiming yours to be the best.

If he is in USA he will be available to many more people in this world than if he was anywhere else. He has often said that spirituality is a luxury of the rich and they only can be truly RELIGIOUS. There is no other place for a Master like him excepting USA, which is a great Nation in the world. If it wishes to remain so and not destroy itself with its own techno --logy it must make room for a true SATGURU- the real Master.

[signed]
( Mrs Kanta Advani )


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