Testimonial letter from Ma Shital

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 Shital. It is "Exhibit A-1965" 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.

Ma Shital 204 Hastings Pd Flat 1 North Bondi Sydney, Australia July 25, 1983 To Whom it May Concern: What is happening here in Rajneeshpuram is unparralled in the history of mankind. Through his prescence, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is enabling a group of people to live and work together with such love and cooperation I have never witnessed before. Rajneeshpuram is a unique experiment in living based around the presence of an enlightened master. His love can truly be felt in his people and their work here. To see him on his daily drive is an essential inspiration and reminder to his people of what they are doing - living together in a peaceful, loving, creative and celebrative way. To visit Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh has been of immense inner significance to me and I can only ask that he be allowed to stay so that many others can visit and share this experience. Love, [signed] Ma Shital

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