Testimonial letter from Sukhendu Das

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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 Sukhendu Das. It is "Exhibit A-164" 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.

Ottawa, Ont.
Canada
July 15th 1983

Testimony

I Sukhendu Das citizen of Canada and North America Here by declare the following statement regarding Bhagawan Shree Rajneesh. I consider Bhagawan Rajneesh as the greatest teacher in Flesh and Blood living in this world today. Through his works I have learnt to love all my fellow human beings. Being treated as a second class citizen by my white brothers and sisters in North America (for I am Indian) it had been hard for me to respect and love my oppressors. Until I became enlightened by following Shree Rajneesh’s teaching’s and philosophy which taught me how to truly love and respect all my fellow creatures including those who discriminate me on the basis of my color, race and religion. I consider this one single effect of his teachings that could be the greatest contribution to mankind.

Shree Rajneesh has successfully brought about a very harmonious understanding between peoples of different faith and background - such people include catholics; jews; protestants; muslims; aetheists and hindus. I have witnessed people of such diverse background who have been following his teachings - Living together in perfect peace and harmony. I hope shree Rajneesh will continue to do his work in North America and hope all peace loving people will give their full support to further his mission in a free society.

[Witness stuff]
[signed]
Sukhendu Das
115 Strathcona Ave.
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1S 1X5


(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.)