Testimonial letter from Phulchand C. Bagmar
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 Phulchand C. Bagmar. It is "Exhibit A-2061" 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.
 P. C. Bagmar TO WHOMSOEVER IT MAY CONCERN I Phulchand Bagmar age 46 years residing at 99/2 Yerawada, Pune-6 do hereby state as under: that I met Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in 1963 and listening his discourses, reading his books and practising his meditation techniques since then. There is a great change in my life because of his teachings. My life has become joyful and peaceful. I am more tranquil and have deep feeling for others. My possessiveness has also become less and less and friendly attitude for everybody has increased.In my profession my clients also feel a change in me to a greater extent. This I attribute to the teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and meditation techniques taught by him. According to me he is the real world teacher today on the earth and has a tremendous capacity to bring the desirable changes in the lives of human beings. [signed] |
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