The Last Testament (Vol 4) ~ 07
event type | interview |
date & time | 19 Nov 1985 9:30 |
location | Manali (HP) |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 0h 59min. Quality: inferior: strong noise. All audio sources: recording seems incomplete (under revision). |
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video | Not available |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | LAST407 |
- notes
- 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.
- Published in India Today magazine, Dec 15, 1985.
- synopsis
- Interview. No announcement heard : unidentified Indian interviewer, man.
- CD-ROM on this chapter: Interview by India Today.
- Question 1
- What does it feel like, coming back to India after four years?
- Question 2
- Has your understanding of the people of America been soured by the hardship that you have had to go through for the past month?
- Question 3
- Are politicians ugly all over the world?
- Question 4
- In the four and a half years of your absence from India, lots of things have changed in this country. What are your comments on the changes that have taken place during your absence?
- Question 5
- In order to do that, what methods do you teach?
- Question 6
- The pill has often been found to be cancer-producing.
- Question 7
- Are you calling for legislative changes?
- Question 8
- One of the methods was forcible sterilization, which was tried in India in 1975, and that gave rise to a political upheaval.
- Question 9
- Now that you're back in India, do you think it's in the area of population control that you're going to apply most of your time and energy?
- Question 10
- Do you say that the paradise you're talking about, your commune in America, was shattered, not for internal reasons, but for external reasons?
- Question 11
- I hope farmers were not prescribing drugs!
- Question 12
- If you created such an ideal situation in your commune, how could people leave? How could people be disloyal to you or to the commune?
- Question 13
- When you talk of politicians, who are the politicians you are talking about?
- Question 14
- Politicians have always been against your communes.
- Question 15
- In your thirty years of constant touring and talking to people, what is it you have achieved? What is your legacy?
- Question 16
- In their terms, what did they achieve?
- Question 17
- Are they so independent that they don't even need you?
- Question 18
- You are now saying that you didn't want to play god, but when you took the name Bhagwan, what was the underlying idea?
- Question 19
- At the commune in America you demonstrated that paradise is possible here and now. Do you think it's possible to demonstrate that it's possible here, even in India, even in a poor country?
- (Note that at least two questions, 20 and 21, are missing on the CD-ROM: the audio is incomplete and break off during answer to q.21)
- Question 22
- What was the problem with Indira Gandhi?
- Question 23
- Indira Gandhi was the prime minister of this country for sixteen years. Does this in any way indicate a change in the status of women in India?
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