Testimonial letter from Sw Premyog

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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 Premyog (Erich Keller). It is "Exhibit A-1077" 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.

Erich Keller
(Swami Premyog)
Diplom-Economist B.A.
Diplom-Designer
8051 Margarethenried 6
Germany-West
Margarethenried, 19.7.83

To whom it may concern

Dear Sirs,

I have attained a degree in industrial management and organisation. I finished the military service and worked after that in some big companys : pharmacy, engineering , insurance. I also studied in my spare time grafic and design and worked in the advertising business. Some years I was painting pictures which I sold. This vzas a new step in my life. I have had some exhibitions and was traveling a lot to get more impressions. In 1981 I read the first book of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and in 1982 I visited a German Ashram and started to do Bhagwans meditations. My life turned immediately into a different direction, started to think positive and enjoyed my life more and more . By being a sannyasin and being with Bhagwan my way of working also changed. I worked more and more intensive than before. When I moved into an Ashram in Germany I left my job. My job there is advertising and organisation of the firms which are parts of center. Since more than one year I am working in this job and it's a totally different way of work. I am living in a commune and share all of my life with the people which are living together with me.

It is quite important for me to let you know that Bhagwan is a very outstanding and extraordinary person in this time. He is bringing us back to our essential feelings and our spirituality . He is also a very intelligent and wise man, who knows a lot about sciences, all religions in the world and psychology. I wish you can take these informations and help people like Bhagwan to stay with us.

Yours sincerely
[signed]


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