Testimonial letter from Sw Shanti Pujans
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 Shanti Pujans (Norbert Bednarek). It is "Exhibit A-2381" 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.
 Norbert Bednarek To Whom It May Concern, I am an automotive engineer. I studied mechanical engineering at the University of Aachen, West Germany and received a degree as a Dipl. Inj. During my study which included many different kinds of sciences I suddenly realized that science does not satisfy me because there was something missing; it was not complete. I did not know what it was I was looking for. That was the point where I got to know Bhagwan Shree Rjaneesh, a person with extraordinary abilities in many fields. For years he was talking about the things I was looking for. He showed me the way to connect science with religion. All this made me become a disciple of this extraordinary man and I see more and more scientists of many countries in the free world being fascinated by this extraordinary religious teacher. [signed] |
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