Testimonial letter from Ma Anand Gerda

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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 Ma Anand Gerda (Gerda Rupp). It is "Exhibit A-2431" 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.

Gerda Rupp
Ma Anand Gerda
Gersthoferstrasse 9
1180 Vienna
Austria
Vienna, 3. Aug. 1983

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

I am working in the Radio- and Televisionstation in Vienna since 23 years (advertising).

1980 I went to Poona to see Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Since this time my life has changed.

Bhagwan gives so much love to me that my heart is overflowing. Love is his religion. On each place where sannyasins (his disciple) are living you can feel his love and the love of his disciple to him. In his present it is easy to enjoy what ever you are doing. It is beautiful to live and to work with other sannyasins. Its possible to see and to know people in another way. Bhagwan helps us to be ourself. Love is happening. All people need so much love and it is great to have a living Master, to be with him, to learn to live and to be. I love him and need him.

I wish all people to know him.
With much fun
[signed]


(Please note: We assume that the above letter is still copyrighted, but we regard its historical interest to constitute a Fair Use exception for publication in this wiki.)