The Last Testament (Vol 6) ~ 14
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| event type | interview |
| date & time | 13 Aug 1986 pm |
| location | Sumila, Juhu, Bombay |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 1min. Quality: good, but a slight constant noise. Live music before and after the interview. |
| online audio | |
| video | Available, duration 1h 3min. Quality: not so good, constant audio-noise (under revision). |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | LAST614 |
- notes
- For information on the date and naming of this event, see the book's discussion page.
- CD-ROM on this chapter: This discourse will be in the book India: Coming Back Home, which has not been published, as of August 1992.
- synopsis
- Interview. No announcement heard : unidentified Indian woman.
- CD-ROM on this chapter: Interview with press named 'Midday'.
- Question 1
- Good evening, and thank you very much for seeing me. It's a pleasure to see you again in India. I have a few questions here if you could please answer them. You have been granting interviews to journalists at the same time you have been taking your discourses, giving discourses, to your sannyasins. Is there any particular reason for this, Bhagwan?
- Question 2
- I have a supplementary question to this if I may, before I go on to the next one.
- You have spoken about how it is very important to have a free and fearless media and about how you are answering all these questions so that Indian journalists can write about it so that it can go to other people.
- I have submitted a list of questions: important questions in our opinion, which would have been nice if you had answered them because it would have cleared a lot of misconceptions. But I find that these questions have been cancelled from my original questionnaire. I have even been asked not to ask you these questions.
- Question 3
- I'm afraid I'm a journalist first and a lady afterwards so of all these questions, I'll have to ask you one at least. One of the questions that you have cut out is, was asked, more from a genuine concern for your well-being than anything else. This was the question pertaining to the fact that a lot of people in this area are quite upset with what they consider is confusion and commotion. They see that their children will be unduly, let's say, they'll be unduly influenced. Some time ago we had also carried a very beautifully written article by one of your disciples on how she felt on your return. But much of the feedback that we have got has been very violent. They're extremely violent, to the point that we've had to throw all of it out. Now if there is such an undercurrent against you, does that worry you?
- Question 4
- Thank you for answering that one. What do you, you foresee as the future of your sannyas movement? Do you see it as prospering, even when you're not here?
- Question 5
- But there is something that is particularly special about you that binds so many of your sannyasins to you. What is it? How would you describe it?
- Question 6
- Thank you. Just one more question. You have said in an earlier interview that this is not your final resting place... that you'll probably move somewhere else. Have you more or less thought about where you plan on moving? Any particular... not Poona? I think it will be shutting down... Is poona shut?"
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