The Last Testament (Vol 1) ~ 27
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event type | interview |
date & time | 13 Aug 1985 pm |
location | Jesus Grove, Rajneeshpuram |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 31min. Quality: good. Live music after the interview. |
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shorttitle | LAST127 |
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- Interview. Announcements by Ma Anand Sheela : Illustrated Weekly of India.
- CD-ROM on this chapter: Interview with Illustrated Weekly of India, Bombay, India.
- Question 1
- For about three and a half years, you kept a maun. And after that, you gave it up. Why did you choose to take a maun? Why did you choose to give it up?
- Question 2
- But what is the difference between being addicted to your words and being addicted to you?
- Question 3
- One may draw sustenance from his love for you; some may draw sustenance from their love for what you are saying. Why do you think one kind of lover is less important than the other and needs to be dropped off?
- Question 4
- But does a master choose his flock?... He leads his own life and by his example, people follow him. How does it matter to him who follows him?
- Question 5
- Only this morning in your discourse, you said that you are not a simple man, you are extraordinary man.
- Question 6
- But you hardly interact with them.
- Question 7
- But it is hardly a one-to-one communion with anyone.
- Question 8
- In India you were perhaps in closer touch on a day-to-day level with people.
- Question 9
- But you are slowly withdrawing yourself?
- Question 10
- But you have this gorgeous feminine mafia in between.
- Question 11
- You speak of freedom of all kinds: intellectual, emotional, sexual. How can you yourself live such a rigid, boring, dull, disciplined life?
- Question 12
- But surely the most comfortable and the most luxurious is not necessarily the best way to live one's life.
- Question 13
- It's said you are the guru for the rich.
- Question 14
- But how do you combine your own levels of comfort at every point... with the principles of community living which your own people follow?
- Question 15
- They have basic norms of community living which they follow, which may be self-imposed, or structured by the commune.
- Question 16
- How do you combine this highly individualistic philosophy of yours with the ground rules of the commune?
- Question 17
- This could be extremely dangerous if a farmer wanted to be a doctor...
- Question 18
- But he must know the land use laws.
- Question 19
- You will not find such prosperous and well-kept sannyasins anywhere, for that matter.
- Question 20
- I was actually prevented from seeing your house.
- Question 21
- The Oregonians don't think so....
- Question 22
- Then why the sub-machine guns?
- Question 23
- What is that "our thing?"
- Question 24
- That can be very dangerous.
- Question 25
- It's a sad comment if an attractive person is walking naked and no one looks around.
- Question 26
- But here you have total freedom to hug each other, you also give total freedom to hit each other. And that could be dangerous....
- Question 27
- In other words, you believe that if Hitler had a jewish girlfriend to make love to, he wouldn't have committed violence on the Jewish population?
- Question 28
- What do you mean he did well? You would support what he did?
- Question 29
- But you don't either -- you attacked Mother Teresa recently.
- Question 30
- But you are selectively using that verse. The full verse is: Blessed are the poor for they shall inherit the earth. So those who inherit the earth can never be poor, so he was using the word poor purely metaphorically.
- Question 31
- There are two versions -- the King James version says the earth.
- Question 32
- But that's purely a sexual preference.
- Question 33
- You mean a man like you who believes in free sex, you would object to people exercising a sexual preference?
- Question 34
- But you were a celibate at twenty-one. Why can't they be?
- Question 35
- Your Bible says that.
- Question 36
- Of sexuality?
- Question 37
- Where do you draw the line between sexual perversion and sexual experimentation?
- Question 38
- So would you, like Rousseau, talk in terms of going back to nature, to the wild?
- Question 39
- Do you think that if the nations of the world did not invest such a large part of their money, of their gross national product in nuclear arsenals, they would have used it more meaningfully? They would have found some alternative means of creating a situation of terror in the world?
- Question 40
- It is born out of the desire to conquer, to rule.
- Question 41
- M.A.D. -- mutually assured destruction.
- Question 42
- Then why are you investing in missile silos?
- Question 43
- The rumor that you are shifting to Australia, are they right? Do you have any such plans whatsoever?
- Question 44
- When is that?
- Question 45
- How do you stay in touch with them? Or how do they stay in touch with you?
- Question 46
- If rumors are to be believed, on the 5th of September, you are starting a new program which will possible have something to do with AIDS?
- Question 47
- Why is this particular affliction so important that you keep talking about it everywhere?
- Question 48
- Neither has cancer.
- Question 49
- But it has spread beyond the gays.
- Question 50
- But to stop kissing is like saying that you don't shave because you might get a nick in your cheek with the blade which might give you tetanus.
- Question 51
- Then how do you stop kissing? That's exactly what I'm saying.
- Question 52
- Of foreplay? Hardly any.
- Question 53
- I'll ask you those questions separately, perhaps!
- Question 54
- They don't know what they are missing....
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