Testimonial letter from Sw Veet Sanskara

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 Veet Sanskara (Takami Ikeda). It is "Exhibit A-2651" 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.

August 4th, 1983 Takami Ikeda Swami Veet Sanskara 733-18 Kokura Kasuga-city Fukuoka-ken, 816 JAPAN. To Whom it May Concern, I became one of Bhagwan’s disciples on December 15, 1981. While reading one of Bhagwan’s books, I felt as if I had been struck with a Zen stick. I became a sannyasin because I felt that my path in life, was simply to become a drop of Bhagwan. This piont of view means, that T believe that Bhagwan is working on people through His silence. His books, videos and tapes are used as His tools. Faithfully yours Takami Ikeda. [signed]

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