Testimonial letter from Sw Shunyam Arihanta
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 Shunyam Arihanta. It is "Exhibit A-1717" 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 2 pages.
 Hometree Computer Consultants To Whom it May Concern: I am a Computer Consultant and proprieter of Hometree Computer Consultants. I have been on contract to the University of California at Berkeley for the past four years. Previous to that I worked for the IBM Corporation as a programmer, analyst and manager for over ten years. Included in that tenure I was the Senior Coordinater for the Onboard Computer Software for Space Shuttle's Deorbit and Reentry. My work has been immensely helped by Bhagwan Rajneesh's Meditations. As you can imagine doing Computer work eight hours a day the body is neglected. Bhagwan Rajneesh's meditations bring needed attention to the body, reduces the stress of the daily work and brings a lightness to the heart. The effects were better for me than jogging, basketball and aerobics. I have suggested these meditations to other computer programmers. All those who tried were amazed as to the positive change in their lives. In all my travels around the world both on pleasure and on business, I would take with me a few tapes and a book of Bhagwan Rajneesh. I would constantly be touched by the knowledge of people of other lands of Bhagwan Rajneesh. I came to know of Bhagwan Rajneesh seven years ago while a Manager for IBM. I was attending a course on "Personal Communications" at the University of Houston at Clear Lake to help improve my relations with my 14 employees. One session a cassette tape was played where Bhagwan talked about relating with people. I was as you say "Blown out" by his clarity of bringing out the positive qualities for relating and communicating with people. Nowhere else or from no other teacher had such focus on a subject been shared with me. Since then I regularly listen to his cassettes and videos on subjects of my interest. He is indeed a rare person with exceptional art to teach people. Sincerely, |
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