Testimonial letter from Lucinda da Silva
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 Lucinda da Silva. It is "Exhibit A-1313" 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.
 July (?)4, 1983 To Whom it May Concern I, Lucinda da Silva, Brazilian, living at R. General Ribeiro da Costa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Public Relations graduated by the Faculty of Communication of the University of Rio de Janeiro, working for the Brazilian Government for 30 years as an analyst of populations, declare to have known Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh through his several books, and that I utilize his teachings for the betterment of the relationship with the other people that work under my supervision The religiousness of his teachings gave me a new vision of the human being, including myself, gave my work a new relation of love and respect, as well as dignity. My work today is a prayer, and as such, its results show in ,the betterment of the treatment of the wellbeing, in the awareness that God and Religion must guide all acts which involve decisions for the humanity, even if this humanity is represented by one person alone, for he is life itself. His religious teachings contributed to the improvement of the quality of my life. The balance of my inner being has contributed to the better accomplishment of my responsibilities. I came personally to analyze the application of this religiousness in the creation of a community, Rajneeshpuram, and could verify that it is love which commands this construction. It is valid as an example to humanity, as a message of peace, brotherhood and respect towards man. Bhagwan, Master of Masters, preaches a religion which gives the world the door to the solution of its principal crisis, the unlovingness. Bhagwan is life, Bhagwan is compassion, Bhagwan is religion, Bhagwan personifies the Univer(?) itself. [signed] |
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