Testimonial letter from Sw Paritosh

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 Paritosh (J. P. Hübner). It is "Exhibit A-2130" 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.

Hannoversche Allgemeine J.P. Hübner ,Tannenweg 10 3015 Wennigsen 1 Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack GmbH & Co Bemeroder Straße 58 3000 Hannover-Kirchrode Redaktion Swami Paritosh Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack GmbH & Co., Postfach 209, 3000 Hannover 1 To whom it may concern Ihre Zeichen Ihre Nachricht vom Unsere Zeichen Telefon (Direktwahl) (05 11)5 15- 3000 Hannover After I graduated from College, where I majored in journalism, I started to work in a daily paper in Hannover, Germany, as a cup-reporter and junior-editor. After two years became an editor. I have worked since 1967 in varies fields: as policereporter, courtreporter, featurewriter and columnist. In the past years I have mainly worked as an editor. As to Mr. Bhagwans influnce on my work I can say that I simply try constantly to be aware of what I am doing instead of doing a routine-job. I came in contact with Mr. Bhagwans religious teaching trough a number of books (published lectures) by him - which friends of mine had suggested to read. Aside from being enlightend Mr. Bhagwan is also the most educated and humerous person surely of my lifetime. With love, [signed] (Swami Paritosh)

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