Testimonial letter from Narutaka Moriyama
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 Mr Narutaka Moriyama. It is "Exhibit A-864" 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 2 pages.
 Mr Narutaka Moriyama To Whom it May Concern, I am working as the postmaster of special mail in the city of Yao in Osaka Japan. The purpose of my work is to improve the communication system of my country, but more then that, to become a bridge between the administration of the country and the people of the local society. So, our office has melt into the local society and has become knownen and loved by the people. I met Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh five years ago. I am fond of reading, and it was through His books that I came to know Him. While reading His books I felt a deep love for Bhagwan, something that I had never felt before. Since then I have been proud to be His disciple while maintaining my professional duties. Naturally it is beyond my expression to say how precious His loving presents have been to my life, but just looking at my field of work, they are so beautiful. Since I became committed so deeply to Bhagwan, my Post Office has become alive and bright beyond recognition. The staff do not lose their smiles and are offering a beautiful service. Because of this, my office has now gained a little reputation from the people. It is the most popular office in our area. Thus I feel really happy sharing our love with the people and have successfully created a bridge between the administration of the country and the people of the local society. Bhagwan makes as aware of love and bliss through the normal way of living, not through becoming someone special. I would like other people to know this beautiful Bhagwan more and more. Mr Narutaka Moriyama |
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