Testimonial letter from Sw Shivam Vimarsh
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 Shivam Vimarsh (Dr. Ulrich Fritsch). It is "Exhibit A-1837" 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.
 Sw. Shivam Vimarsh To whom it may concern. Last week I came home from the 2nd world festival in Rajneeshpuram in Oregon. I am an german dentist with a praxis nearby Heidelberg I am sannyasin since august81 and I unfortunately missed the opportunity to see Bhagwan in Poona so i saw him the first time in Oregon last year. I read many books of him and did many meditationscamps in Germany and in Geetam near Los Angeles. In this Camps and groups i got so much love and good therapie that iI became more and more a lover of this master who created this form of human growth therapia. My wife and my both children became sannyasins also and wie live very happy as a Sannyas family and many people came in my praxis because they know I am a sannyasin and they like this kind of treatment. I feel taht I have an another feeling for love and caring for my patients since I came in tune with this wonderfull master who has the ability to give something to me what i can not declare but what i feel transforming me and my approach to the others around me. Seeing the progress that happens in Rajneeshpuram and seeing Bhagwan so loveable and healthy I left Oregon in a State of deep grace and looking forward very hopefull that something so beautifull will grow more and more and I can see Bhagwan next year again and drinking his energy.All my wishes to you are; let Bhagwan stay at this wonderfull place, let him do his work and give us the opportunity to see him once the year in Rajneeshpuram. [signed] |
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