The Last Testament (Vol 4) ~ 19

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event type interview
date & time 27 Nov 1985 9:30
location Span Resort, Manali (HP)
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 26min. Quality: very inferior: strong noise, from 23 min to 27 min barely audible, from 27 min to 42 min sound is lost (under revision).
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shorttitle LAST419
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Interview. Announcements by Sw Prem Amrito : (name inaudible) of Der Spiegel (inaudible)
CD-ROM on this chapter: Interview by Der Spiegel.
Question 1
Yours has been the classical return of the native. Now that you are back in India, do you think this time you will be able to improve the quality of environment in India?
Question 2
So you're not sure if you would settle in India.
Question 3
Well, you are in the land of the Manu and the Himalayas. Do you feel any regret at the incidents of the past few months, your ignominy in U.S. jails?
Question 4
Do you feel unhappy, or you take it in the stride as others have done, as Buddha has done, as Socrates has done?
Question 5
Do you mean to say that the American bureaucracy and administrators by and large they are fascist?
Question 6
Well, has your movement broken up?
Question 7
Have your supporters deserted you?
Question 8
How has your movement become stronger?
Question 9
It seems to be to me a contradiction in terms. On the one hand you call the Americans or the administration of a bureaucracy fascists.
Question 10
On the other, you say America has helped your movement?
Question 11
But they have a democratic judiciary. They have a democratic judiciary.
Question 12
So you think this diabolical strategy a mixture of force and threat?
Question 13
It seems a little strange that for twelve days you were tortured in the U.S. jails and subjected to all kinds of physical indignities that I read in the newspapers. And then your (inaudible) following in the United States were passive witness to this. They could have appealed to President Reagan and asked him bear some pressure to prevent this. How is it that they couldn't prevent a situation like this?
Question 14
You have said that they wanted to kill you. There was a bomb incident in the jail, you know.
Question 15
Now, in the jail they really wanted to kill you?
Question 16
But was there some other incidents also to establish the fact that they wanted to kill you?
Question 17
So in other words, what I get out is (inaudible) indirect means.
Question 18
Tremendous element of corruption.
Question 19
You could not ask them to switch them off?
Question 20
This amounts to third degree?
Question 21
Do you mean for twelve days you did not get any sleep?
Question 22
But they must have given you a classification -- C class, B class, A class.
Question 23
The jail memo (inaudible) entitles for daily medical checkup. Were you given a daily medical?
Question 24
In interviews to German publications, Ma Anand Sheela has come out with startling statements about you. She said that you take sixty milligrams of valium daily to keep calm, and that you take nitrous oxide, called "laughing gas", to look happy. Is it true?
Question 25
Very nice man too very helpful.
Question 26
So these are false?
Question 27
Sheela also alleges that her break with you came because of your many demands; one of them being two and a half million dollar diamond watch.
Question 28
Yes, but its value is priceless as made by your followers?
Question 29
Ninety-three she said.
Question 30
What did Ma Sheela write to you in her parting letter of September fourteenth -- she wrote a letter to you on September fourteenth, which she calls as a "parting letter." What did she write to you in that letter?
Question 31
What was the nature of her relationship with you?
Question 32
She was not at all spiritual?
Question 33
Why do you want to discourage kissing?
Question 34
So you would suggest your people in the commune, should rub their noses?
Question 35
I see. You mean pre-emptive steps.
Question 36
You have over three hundred books to your name, and only one on sex. And why is it that it is only this one that you are asked about?
Question 37
Is it possible?
Question 38
Playboy would run out of business.
Question 39
What are your plans for the future?


(source:CD-ROM)


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