Press Conferences ~ 09

event type	interview
date & time	17 Nov 1985 am
location	Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Delhi
language	English
audio	Available, duration 1h 3min. Quality: good. Here is only the talk with Osho, beginning incomplete: missing first question addressed to him (Q17) and first sentence of the answer to it.
online audio	free download from OshoWorld
video	Available, duration 1h 20min. Quality: reasonably. The video contains scenes from the airport, Osho coming into the arrival hall, a car ride to a hotel, and the press conference with Ma Prem Hasya. From 26:15 Osho arriving at the press conference. From 27:24 Osho starts speaking. Osho talking is not complete, at 1:20 the last words are Q42: "Are there any cases against you in India?" "No." (The audio has 10min more Osho talking.)
online video
see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1985 first edition : Press Conferences (1994 on CD-ROM) other editions, translations and links
online text	find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle	PRESS09

notes

This press conference is missing on the CD-ROM, but available on audio and video. There are two versions of videos and they are incomplete (cuts in middle), to be checked.

synopsis

Interview. Announcements unknown, beginning of recording is missing.

Osho has just arrived on Delhi airport from the United States. The video contains first scenes from the airport, with sannyasins and friends waiting for the plane, people holding up welcome boards, lots of press.

From 6:35, Osho coming into the arrival hall, having trouble going through the crowd.

From 7:28 a car ride with many cars to a hotel.

From 8:35 Osho arriving at the hotel.

From 10:31 there is a press conference with Ma Prem Hasya. (Question 1-16)

From 26:15 Osho arriving at the press conference.

From 27:24 Osho starts speaking. On video Osho talking is not complete.

The press conference starts with Ma Prem Hasya speaking and answering questions.

Question 1

(missing)

Question 2

Could you tell us exactly what his physical condition is today? You said he has been tortured…

Question 3

What do you mean by contagious?

Question 4

Where was this, which prison?

Question 5

What are you going to do now? What are your plans now, for the movement…?

Question 6

No, for Rajneesh, for the commune, for the movement, for communism, where will he go?

Question 7

Where?

Question 8

Can you tell me where exactly in the Himalayas is going?

Question 9

When you say Himalayas, will it be only in India or in Nepal?

Question 10

He will not meet any of his devotees also when you say he will be, his privacy will be guarded.

Question 11

For how long?

Question 12

When you say the movement is going on, I mean you're implying that the movement is going on, but he is withdrawing from it. Is that correct or?

Question 13

When does he leave Delhi for his retreat?

Question 14

His residence will it be something... (video incomplete)?

Question 15

Will that be in Kulu Manali?

Question 16

... taxation or other matters?

Then a man:

Can I interrupt? Bhagwan will be available for a very short while. Okay. And (inaudible) kindly keep your questions to the minimum and he's very tired and very (inaudible). And try please to (inaudible)...

A woman:

Friends, you are requested to take his nominate time. And soon you will be free. Very lovely. Thank you.

(Then after about 25 minutes Osho arrives.)

Question 17

Can we start? Bhagwan, what are your future plans in India?

Osho: "First I would like to speak (inaudible), then you ask questions.

First thing I want to say to you is good morning India. It is my motherland. Although poor but highly rich as far as the inner world of man is concerned. This is the only land left in the whole world which can still recognize evolution of consciousness and the ultimate goal of the buddhahood and enlightenment. ..."

Question 18

Which place were you, Bhagwan? Which room are you talking at this moment? I don’t understand. You went to the jail after bail, is it okay? And then you were left in a waiting room or in your own cell?

Question 19

This was in Portland?

Question 20

Not North Carolina?

Question 21

How? It did not go.

Question 22

Is it a fine or is it... hard cash?

Question 23

It means you have been acquitted or you are still in bail?

Question 24

What are your future plans?

Question 25

Can we come and meet you there sometime?

Question 26

The press would be welcome?

Question 27

Where are you going in the Himalayas and when are you going?

Question 28

What do you plan to do about your ashram at Oregon, your Rajneesh ashram there?

Question 29

You will continue the commune in Poona?

Question 30

Why you don’t also establish a commune in Himalayas? Do you apprehend a similar fate?

Question 31

Would you be visiting these communes?

Question 32

In effect, will it mean that you will be withdrawing yourself from all the activities around the world?

Question 33

Who will administer the Rajneesh International and the Rajneesh Foundation in Oregon, what is their future? Because you will not be directly linked with them, and who will administer them?

Question 34

Will you allow yourself to become a prisoner of any of your disciples again as was the charge on you, as you charged in some of your disciples?

Question 35

You had split with some of your disciples, one of them ran away to Germany. And then you charge that she has kept you up this much, and she has misused your name, and that is why you no longer want these communes. So will you allow this to happen again to you by other disciples?

Question 36

One of the charges against you at Oregon was that you conducted sham marriages or fake marriages so that the foreigners could remain in America, for which you pleaded guilty. Is it true or false?

Question 37

Why did you plead guilty then?

Question 38

You just told that no faith against you. And there is a fine of 4.000 or 100.000 in that order. Could we take it that even if there is no preassignment of the person, American government is confident in a good fine, without proving any guilt or charge? How is it possible? I don't think it is very convenient.

Question 39

Look, it goes against the very principles of irrefutence. That unless there is a case against you, unless there is a charge against you, unless it is true, you cannot be fined. So the fine has been made there. That's how I wanted to know whether...

Question 40

As a saint, are you ready to forgive them? Will you forgive all of them?

Question 41

That means you are speaking with anger rather than with compassion and love?

Question 42

Are there any cases against you in India?

Question 43

Bhagwan, what were the circumstances under which you left the country?

Question 44

Bhagwan, you just made one of the first open and pointed public attacks on the way we use legal and administrative system functions. And we also call upon you colleagues to support us, and now I think colleague, because you said there's no longer enough in order to expose the hypocrisy, which is functioning in the name of democracy. Now will you carry on your crusade for justice within United States for your followers and justice from the United States to the rest of the world?

Question 45

You said that the United States should be shut up forever. What do you mean by that?

Question 46

But you talk of simplicity doesn’t go with your actual lifestyle. This is the contradiction people always notice in you. You live in a five star hotel, you have millions of dollars and Rolls Royces, and you talk of simple life and simple values. Don't you notice the contradiction? You don't have a presser but you have diamonds.

Question 47

How do you describe this dress of yours? Describe this dress of yours, please. Is it Turkish dress? You will call it a toga?

Question 48

A gown? And the cap is Turkish?

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