Testimonial letter from Sw Anand Veeren
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 Anand Veeren. It is "Exhibit A-809" 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.O. Box 10 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN My name is Anand Veeren, born in 1947 in Odessa, U.S.S.R. I have an equivalent of B.S. in Electronics. I cam to US in 1976. My occupation is electronics, computers, and telecommunication. I have done practically all that could be done in above areas, starting from repair, maintenance, development, was involved in manufacturing and numerous other aspects of electronics technology. I view Bhagwan as a person who contributed to my life by providing radically different outlook on life. He is definitely a religious teacher and leader as far as I am concerned. As of his work, it is not surprising to me at all that at this particular time he has chosen to be silent, without talking to each individual disciple. He has done all this during a number of years and in numerous cases has stated that an ultimate communication between the Master and disciple happens only in silence. The words are the hindrance on this stage. To the best of my knowledge he directs all major religious activities and communicates verbally with his personal secretary on daily basis. As of religious ceremonies, his presence has an immense significance of the religious leader. His daily rides provide continuous contact between Him and people and helps to bring people together, fills them up with joy and love. He therefore is an example of being who has arrived at a state of harmony and total understanding of earthly life, to all of his disciples or anyone else who is looking for it. There is no question of Him being a Religious Leader and Teacher. It is so. I have been studying esoteric movements, such as Christianity, Yoga, Buddhism and others. As far as I am concerned He is as good of a teacher as anyone else, I have been introduced to, to say the least. My understanding is that he is a man of exceptional abilities just because of an amount and quality of people He attracted and continues attracting. At the same time He has contributed to understanding of all the major world’s religious movements, Philosophy, Psychology, Arts, Science, education, environment and numerous other areas. He helped to enlarge the view on all these subjects and contributed in clarity and understanding of areas concern. It is suggested to study His books to understand His views directly. [signed] |
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