Testimonial letter from Sw Vishnu Chaitanya
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 Vishnu Chaitanya. It is "Exhibit A-2267" 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.
 Sw. Vishnu Chaitanya To Whomsoever it concerns: Beloved Friend. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is a man of acceptional ability. The following points can be considered as I see it: 1. The greatest quality of this personality is to transform a human being. The process of transformation of a human being is very subtle in a way indirect, but very respectful. I have observed many many people and in my own case also, that if somebody is receptive and relax to his approach, he starts becoming beautiful, loving and more graceful. There are countless witnesses that he has brought much happiness and joy in people’s life. He is such a man who is loved by millions of people, because he himself is love incarnated. See him and his people while he passes by. This is a rare quality and ability which a human being can have. He is a human - par-excellence. 2. Presence: Another quality of this personality is his silent presence. During the festival or celebration times, when he just sits silently and responds to the whole energy, the whole phenomena is just incredible, which can’t be explained but felt. 3. He attracts the intellegent: He is an extremely intellegent well read, up-to-date, very modern scientific person. That is why among his sannyasins, you will find maximum therapists and all intellegent people from all the parts of life. 4. The Answer: He is the answer of all existing problems of humanity on this earth. All political, social, personal and other problems are dealt by him very beautifully. Not only has he dealt with them philosophically, but he is very practical, experimental also. People who are running the commune in Rajneeshpuram and other communes around the world according to his vision are feeling it very strongly. These communes and these people should be studied and humanity will find many solutions of existing problems. He is heralding a new man. 5. Capitalistic Approach: This approach is most psychological. And he is in favour of it totally; and how to use it positively, so that the drawbacks of capitalism can be dropped, can be seen around him. 6. A source of attracting and creating wealth: It is very much obvious how much wealth and creative energy he is attracting into this country. 7. A Miraculous Personality: Miracle not in the ordinary sense of the word. The most extraordinary and powerful quality of this person is his work through his presence. Apparently he does not do anything. But he is doing very much through his being. This is paradoxical and hard to understand, but true and a fact. One can very easily see the great, beautiful creativity around him. Dalai Lama of Tibet has said that Bhagwan is the only person who is trying to help humanity in this difficult time. Books and books can be written about the extraordinary and exceptional qualities of this person and still that won't be enough. I am absolutely, totally convinced about Him. [signed] |
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