Testimonial letter from Pandit Jasraj

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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 Pandit Jasraj. It is "Exhibit A-554" 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.

Motiram Sangeet Natya Academy
Regd. No. E. 5403
( Registered with the charity Commissioner, BOMBAY )
Rajkamal Building,
138, Shivaji Park,
BOMBAY-400 016.
Phone : 45 62 81
TRUSTEES :
Pandit Jasraj
Shri Kiran Shantaram
Shri Sorabji S. Engineer
Smt. Madhura Jasraj
ADVISORY COUNCIL :
Shri V. Shantaram
Shri S R. Damani M. P.
Shri J. P. Goenka
Maharana Jayavantsingji Ranmalsingji
Pandit Mani Ramji
Shri M. R. Acharekar
Shri Vinaya Chandra Maudgalya
Shri Solibhai Batliwala
Shri Ashok Ranade
Shri Chiranji Lal Saraf
Shri Shyam M. Goswami
Shri Swami Hari Prasadji
Dr. Dharam Vir Bharati
Shri V. O. Somani
Smt Gyanvati Devi
Shri Madhavrai Goswami
Smt. Prafulla Dahanukar
Shri Rudradutta Singhji Waghela
Shri M. L. Vyas
Smt. Sulbha Deshpande
Shri Nandkishore Mittal
Shri S B. Somani
Shri Rajeev Goenka
Shri Deoratan Bagdi
Shri S. K. Somani
Shri Jyoti Kiran
14th July, 1983.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

I have known Bhagwan Acharya Rajneesh for the last ten years. He is a genuine and profound individual, with deep-rooted knowledge in religion and mythology. A spiritual guide who will radiate knowledge to those around.

[signed]
PANDIT JASRAJ


(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.)