Testimonial letter from Ma Paritosh Devagarbha

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 Paritosh Devagarbha. It is "Exhibit A-2519" 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.

Arnhem August 3 th. To whom it may concern, I,m a sannyasin for half a year now and I’m living in the center in Arnhem. My life has totally changed since I heard from Bhagwan. Before thet time I was depressed and agressive most of the time, because of my past. Bhagwan learns me how to deal with this. This was so important to me-reading His books- that I began to meditate in the center. This also helped me. I met sannyasins and I felt so good being with them. They are so kind and loving to each other and to other people and all because of Bhagwan, There was no doubt of my becoming a sannyasin. I feel much better now and I am sure that I can make more friends with my joy then with my depressions. I saw Bhagwan for the first time this year and I’m very glad I got that chance to see Him. It was great to be in Rajneeshpuram. I wonder why people all over the world can’t live like sannyasins do in Rajneeshpuram. We just had the luck to meet Bhagwan, I think. I work in a library and we have nine books from Bhagwan Himself. We also have a few other books written by people who love Bhagwan also. In this village are no other sannyasins, but still people read His books. So I think that Bhagwan is important to other people too. With love, Ma Paritosh Devagarbha

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