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: very bad recording, lots of noise. Incomplete, missing the first few words and an unknown amount of time at the end.
online audio	free download from OshoWorld.com
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 some 12min more Osho talking, but is not complete either.) (under revision).
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.

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. Both on audio and 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 (inaudible) ?

Question 9

(inaudible) only in India or (inaudible)

Question 10

(inaudible) meeting (inaudible) also when you say (inaudible)

Question 11

For how long?

Question 12

What do you say the movement is going on, are you implying that he is withdrawing from it, is that correct or?

Question 13

When does he leave Delhi (inaudible)?

Question 14

His residence will it be something (inaudible)?

Question 15

Will that be in Kulu Manali ?

Question 16

(inaudible) taxation or (inaudible)?

(Then after about 25 minutes Osho arrives.)

Question 17

What are your future plans in India?

Osho: "First thing I want to say to you is, a good morning to India. It is my motherland. Although poor but highly rich as far as the inner world of men 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 travel, enlightenment. ..."

Question 18

Which place was it, Bhagwan? About which room are you talking at this moment? I don’t understand. You went to the jail after bail and then you were left in a waiting room? I don’t understand.

Question 19

Is that in Portland?

Question 20

Not in Carolina?

Question 21

How? It did not go.

Question 22

Is it fine or is it hard cash?

Question 23

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

Question 24

(inaudible)

Question 25

Can we come and meet you there sometime?

Question 26

The press will be welcome?

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

You continue the community in Poona?

Question 30

Why you don’t also establish a commune in Kulu Manali?

Question 31

Will you be visiting (inaudible)

Question 32

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

Question 33

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

Question 34

(inaudible)

Question 35

You have taken some of your disciples (inaudible) So do you allow this to happen again by other disciples?

Question 36

One of the charges against you is that in Oregon that you conducted sham marriages or fake marriages so that the foreigners could remain in America. And that you pleaded guilty. Is it true or false?

Question 37

Why did you plead guilty then?

Question 38

You just told that… (inaudible)

Question 39

(inaudible)

Question 40

Are you ready to forgive them? Do you forgive all of them?

Question 41

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

Question 42

Are there any cases against you in India?

Question 43

What were the circumstances under which you have left the country?

Question 44

(inaudible) expose the hypocrisy, which is functioning in the name of democracy. Will you carry on your crusade for justice within United States for your followers and justice from the United States for the rest of the world?

Question 45

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

Question 46

But you talk of something that doesn’t go with your actual life style. There is a contradiction that doesn’t go unnoticed. You live in a five star hotel and you have millions of dollars and Rolls Royces. And you talk of simple life and simple values and you don’t think that is a contradiction. You don't have a (inaudible)but you have diamonds.

Question 47

How you describe this dress of yours? Do you call it a toga? A gown?

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