The Inward Revolution ~ 11
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| event type | interview |
| date & time | 12 Mar 1972 pm |
| location | Bombay |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 0h 25min. Quality: good. Questions were voiced over. The audio has missing parts compared to the book (under revision). |
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| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | ESO12 |
- notes
- Description of this chapter in The Inward Revolution (1973) #11: "Text of an interview with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh by visitors from abroad, on March 12, 1972 in Bombay, India." Chapter title: "The Crisis of Western Rationality and Eastern Irrationality"
In The Psychology of the Esoteric (1978) #12 ** : the chapter title is: "Balancing the Rational and the Irrational".
- synopsis
- Reader of the questions: unknown (voiced over).
- Question 1
- To what factors do you attribute the Western youth revolt, and why are so many young people from the West now becoming interested in Eastern philosophy and religion?
- Question 2
- But supposing the tree you were mentioning is just next to a wall, is just growing next to a wall. A wall is there, and the tree grows there. So its branches cannot grow in all directions because the wall is there. The wall can be society, its existing conditions. In that case, how can the tree grow when there is a wall next to it?
- Question 3
- But suppose the tree is also basically handicapped; for example, because of biological conditions: if he is the son of a person who was a sick man or some such reason. Then he cannot change — not because he doesn't want to, but because he cannot.
- Question 4
- But how can one know what are the right goals to aspire to in life if everything is to be accepted?
- Question 5
- How can a religion come to be rational?
- Question 6
- Didn't Buddha have a rational type of mind?
- Question 7
- When you talk about people regressing, are you just comparing them with some image of what is socially acceptable that has been created by the society?
- Question 8
- Aren't a lot of the problems of the Western mind the result of the sin-and-guilt concept in Christianity?
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