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).
online audio	free download from OshoWorld.com
video	Not available
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1985 first edition : The Last Testament (Vol 4) (1994 on CD-ROM) other editions, translations and links
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?

(source:CD-ROM)

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