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. |
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video | Available, duration 1h 13min. Quality: good. |
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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?
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