Press Conferences ~ 04

event type	interview
date & time	24 Sep 1985 pm
location	Rajneesh Mandir, Rajneeshpuram
language	English
audio	Available, duration 1h 43min. Quality: good.
online audio	free download from OshoWorld
video	Available, duration 1h 46min. Quality: good.
online video
see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1985 first edition : Press Conferences (1994 on CD-ROM) other editions, translations and links
online text	find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle	PRESS04

notes: There were 2 interviews this evening, this was the second, late at night. The first is The Last Testament (Vol 3) ~ 03. See Talk:Osho Timeline 1985.

synopsis: Interview. Announcements by Ma Prem Isabel : Jim Hyde from Channel Two (questions 1-2); Scott Miller, KGW-TV, Portland (q.3-7); Sw Anand Subhuti, The Rajneesh Times (q.8); Walden Kirsch, KGW-TV, Portland (q.9-18); Sw Anand Videha for "Latin-America Courier", Italy (q.19-23); Ma Viren for "Loto-Payo" (L'Europeo; [editor: CD-ROM is uncertain on it and says "Leuropayon?"]), Italy (q.24-25).

At first there is Osho's statement and then questions.

Question 1 : Jim Hyde, Channel Two

How would you convince the people who will see and here this videotape that you are telling the truth and Sheela is lying?

Question 2

Would you rather the investigators, who've been invited, go away now? Have you given up on the system?

Question 3 : Scott Miller, KGW-TV, Portland

The person who is being investigated is not usually allowed to record or videotape those interviews and certainly, these investigations never occur in front of the press. Why should you be different?

Question 4

Are you saying that you have the authority to tell the investigators how to investigate? Or to tell the investigators who to arrest?

Question 5

You said that you won't talk under certain conditions, are you still recommending that your sannyasins cooperate with the law enforcement agencies?

Question 6

Do you want them to keep cooperating?

Question 7

Tomorrow, do you want your sannyasins to keep talking to the investigators?

Question 8 : Sw Anand Subhuti, The Rajneesh Times

Sorry. Do you think the FBI could have been waiting for a series of counter-allegations from Sheela?

Question 9 : Walden Kirsch, KGW-TV, Portland

Good evening. We have been meeting like this for a week now....

Question 10

Each time the stories that we hear become more and more extravagant. Right now as we speak, there are a certain number of sannyasins here in this room, who don't believe what you're saying.

Question 11

You say in various ways that you ask your sannyasins not to believe you. You ask them to trust in you but not to believe you.

Question 12

Why should they believe the facts which you've been laying out for the past week?

Question 13

Why should they believe you now?

Question 14

Why should they believe your version and not the other version when you tell your followers not to believe the words you say?

Question 15

Have you told any lies the past week? Have you told any lies at all?

Question 16

It sounds as though a showdown is inevitable between you and the criminal investigators here. At this point you are telling your followers not to speak to anybody unless they speak with you first. Is that correct?

Question 17

You said a moment ago that none of your sannyasins should grant any interviews to any investigators unless those investigators have taken your interview first.

Question 18

And until your interview happens you're ordering your sannyasins to speak to none of these investigators.

Question 19 : Sw Anand Videha for "Latin-America Courier", Italy

Osho, we had a watergate one week ago, now we have a double watergate. Who do you suspect is behind the attorney general? Any guess?

Question 20

You say that Sheela stolen forty-three million dollars. There is any real proof that has happen and why the European commune did not take direct action with Interpol in this case?

Question 21

You mean the last husband?

Question 22

But till now there is no direct action towards Sheela for the forty-three million dollars stolen in Europe with Interpol there?

Question 23

You say your name has been used to do all these criminal acts. You think you can file, or you will file Sheela directly for using your name for this?

Question 24 : Ma Viren for "Loto-Payo" (L'Europeo), Italy

Osho, you said few days ago that the government maybe wants this part of Oregon, this desert, for nuclear experiments. Would this enough reason for they to conspirate against the commune?

Question 25

But this is true in absolute, it is not true as far as power is concerned. I mean they always win!

(source:CD-ROM)