Testimonial letter from Sw Amano Ivano

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 Sw Amano Ivano. It is "Exhibit A-2580" 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.

Swami Amano Ivano Miasto Rajneesh Neo-Sannyas Commune 53010 Frosini (Siena) Italy Miasto, July 30, 1983 To whom it may concern. Meeting Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh has been very beneficial to my life in many ways. It helped me to reach a greater balance in the various components of my personality, and, through the practice of His meditation techniques, a greater fulfillment in all gestures of everyday life, working, eating, relating to other people etc. My life has become more intense. My first approach to Him was through His books, which helped me to go through a time of confusion and depression and to come out of it awakened to a desire to live lite as totally as possible. Later I decided to give up former life to become part of His community Miasto Rajneesh, where I have been living presently for over two years. Here working and meditating 1 realize how my relationship to Bhagwan becomes ever more important to me, and how it helps me, beyond the inevitable stress of strenuous activity, to constantly find again my inner centre. It was hard for me to intellectually understand how the silent presence which is now Bhagwan could influence my me. Only direct experience of it, especially the experience of sitting silently with Him during the Celebration in Rajneeshpuram, made it clear to me that, mysteriously, the miracle happens. (Swami Amano Ivano) [signed]

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