Testimonial letter from Sw Dhyan Pravana

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 Pravana (Manzoli Gastone). It is "Exhibit A-2610" 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.

To whom it may concern. My legal name is MANZOLI GASTONE, and my sannyas name is SWAMI DHYAN PRAVANA. I’m 56 years old and I’m a pensioner? I took my sannyas on December 1980 and I met Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh on 1979. Thanks to the meditation of my beloved Master BHagwan Shree Rajneesh and of his Buddhafield my inner being constantly developes towards love, brother hood , awareness, enjoy. MANZOLI GASTOBE - Via Bagaro 67 44100 FERRARA ITALY Ferrara, 26/07/ 83 [signed]

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