Testimonial letter from Sw Prabhu Chaitnya

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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 Prabhu Chaitnya (VD Kothari). It is "Exhibit A-934" 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.

KOTHARI & COMPANY
Certified Public Accountants
Proprietor: V D. KOTHARI C.P.A. (Kenya)
Room Nos. 8 & 9 & 11 to 15, 4th Floor
Rajab Manzil, Tom Mboya Street.
Telephone: Office 25919/29722
Residence 582093
P. O. Box 10256
Nairobi
Our Ref:
Your Ref:
Date 15th July, 1983

To Officer in Charge,
Immigration and Naturalization Service
PORTLAND
OREGON
U.S.A

Dear Sir.
Love,
RE: BHAGWAN'S VISA

I am a practicing Accountant in Kenya for last thirty three years I took sanyas of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh around 1976. Since than all my family members of total 7 in number are Bhagwan's Sanayasin and we are running a beautiful centre in most beautiful part of the city of Nairobi a "City under the Sun" .

Inner Bliss is just inexpressible. It is to be experienced, as all description fall short. The taste of it is in experiencing.

I have no words to express my gratitude to this Master of Masters.

Please see that Visa's is given for this stay in your beautiful country.

Yours Truly,
[signed]
SWAMI PRABHU CHAITNYA
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