Testimonial letter from Sw Dhyan Muktesh
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 Dhyan Muktesh (Martin Basler). It is "Exhibit A-1927" 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.
 Scherz 4 th July 83 To whom it may concern After a vocational training as a goldsmith I got into a formation as a teacher. Further on I did a special training to become on educator for social handicapped children. In this job I have been working for 13 Years. 5 years ago I tokk courses of Paramahansa Yogananda. About in this time I heard the first time of Bhagwan. It was through my brother I heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. I read a book of Him and at the very moment I was very affected of His language an the beauty of His person. Up to now there was no occasion for me to see Bhagwan physically - neither in Poona nor in the USA. From the people around Him and from the communities I have come to know Ifeel very strong this kind of Life energy I like so much. In my opinion the way of living and working together as it is realised now in Rajneeshpuram or in smaller Communes in Europe is the most persuaded possibility of try-out a new consciousness and a new understanding of our world - and the problems of it. Sincerly yours |
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