Testimonial letter from Nalinkant B. Chitalia

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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 Nalinkant B. Chitalia. It is "Exhibit A-541" 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.

ESTD. 1895
B. K. SOPARIWALA
Dealers in :
HIGH CLASS ANODIZED SHOW BUTTONS. CUTLERY & CRACKERS
Phone : 332446
Specialists in : SHOW BUTTONS & NUT CRACKERS.
243, Masjid Bunder Road
BOMBAY-400 003.
Ref. No.
Date 2-8-19

TO WHOM SO EVER IT MAY CONCERN

I, Nalinkant B. Chitalia, residing at Bombay, do hereby state as follows:-

I had attened some spiritual discourses of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh when He was in India. These days also I hea His taped discourses whenever I have time. I am very much impressed by His unique speech.

For centuries religion has lacked many things viz freedom, laughter, love etc. I am sure that Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is capable enough to teach all that was lacked in religion.

Bhagwan’s people are really loving and sincere. Bhagwan’s unique methods of meditation (New & Traditionals) have transformed many people. He is the hope for to-day’s world.

(Partner)
[signed]
Mr. Nalinkant B. Chitalia.


(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.)