The Last Testament (Vol 2) ~ 26

event type	interview
date & time	17 Sep 1985 pm
location	Sanai Grove, Rajneeshpuram
language	English
audio	Available, duration 1h 8min. Quality: good. Live music after the interview.
online audio	free download from OshoWorld purchase from Osho.com
video	Available, duration 1h 13min. Quality: good.
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1985 first edition : The Last Testament (Vol 2) (1994 on CD-ROM) other editions, translations and links
online text	find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle	LAST226

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synopsis

Interview. Announcements by Ma Prem Hasya : Larry Eckenburg(?) from KT-TV, Los Angeles (inaudible)

CD-ROM on this chapter: Interview with Metro Media, Los Angeles, CA.

Question 1

We heard a number of things you said this evening, so I will try not to go over the same material again. This is for a television report, and television reports are short. So if you will help me by making your answers as short as possible, I would appreciate it.

Serious question: You knew Sheela for a long time.

Question 2

How was she able to fool you, do you think?

Question 3

An accident?

Question 4

So she was just by chance, do you think?

Question 5

Do you think, Bhagwan, your life personally was in danger here?

Question 6

Do you believe these things happened, the deception of you and others, for a reason? Why?

Question 7

How can a power struggle occur in a religious setting like this?

Question 8

So none of this you were aware of?

Question 9

Only later, obviously, when people told you?

Question 10

Fifty-five million dollars in debt you mentioned.

Question 11

How do you arrive at that figure?

Question 12

Perhaps now you'll learn where the office is.

Question 13

Sheela called the people of Oregon bigots. Do you agree with her?

Question 14

Do you plan to stay in Oregon?

Question 15

There had been some reports that you own some property in other countries -- Australia for example -- and the possibility of you packing up and leaving and going to that country.

Question 16

Not true? You talked about the Constitution of the United States today. The government of the state of Oregon says that Rajneeshpuram is not a legal city because of the conflict between church and state constitutionally. Do you intend to continue the fight to keep that city as an incorporated city?

Question 17

So you will continue your legal fight?

Question 18

You talked about fascism, and you said that a fascist state had been created here on your own property. How will you change that now?

Question 19

What's different, though?

Question 20

I assume you're going to be your own spokesman from now on?

Question 21

The immigration service had challenged your being in this country legally. Do you continue to tend...?

Question 22

We have heard in Los Angeles reports that several people here have AIDS. Is that true, and if so what are you doing about it?

Question 23

None?

Question 24

What are you doing about the problem here?

Question 25

What are you doing here?

Question 26

Are they in isolation?

Question 27

Do you have a concern that the incidents of the last couple of days that you've found out about could tarnish your work, your group, your organization, in such a way that it would be hard to get new recruits or converts to your organization? Would this make it difficult for you to have new people come in?

Question 28

The attorney general here in Oregon has said that you have a large stockpile of guns here on the property. Is that true, and if so why would you want to have those?

Question 29

You are obviously making an attempt to heal the bad feeling of Oregon and perhaps some other places in the United States against your organization.

Question 30

Do you think that you're going to be able to be successful in....

Question 31

Is that the message you're trying to get....

Question 32

So you would return the city if they will purchase it back?

Question 33

Are you saying that you're no longer interested in participating in elections in Wasco county, for example?

Question 34

But your sannyasins did.

Question 35

But are you suggesting or thinking that your sannyasins will not be interested?

Question 36

And whatever they decide, it would be all right with you?

Question 37

So you've made it clear that this is something that is important, the city remain?

Question 38

And that obviously you will take whatever steps legally are necessary to do that?

Question 39

Bhagwan, I want to thank you very much for talking with us tonight. It's been a pleasure, and we've learned a lot.

When is your next festival? Is it in the summertime you have festivals here? You mentioned it.

Question 40

But isn't the biggest one in the summer?

Question 41

Have you travelled at all outside Oregon in the United States?

Question 42

Do you have more building to do here?

(source:CD-ROM)

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