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Part VII : Osho’s First Rolls Royce
In December 1979, for the first time, a Rolls Royce conveys
Osho to Buddha Hall for his discourse.
You ask: What is so funny about Your driving to discourse in a
Rolls Royce?
There is a long story behind it! I was driving…I was coming
in an Impala, and people like you started writing letters to me
saying that, "This is a plumber's car!"
I told Laxmi, "Change it!" So she bought a Buick—and
people started writing to me that "This is a pimp's car!"
So I told Laxmi, "Change it!" So she was bargaining
for a Lincoln Continental. And people wrote to me, "This
is good—this is a president's car!"
I said, "That is worse—worse than being driven in a
plumber's or a pimp's car!" So I told Laxmi, "Now, for
a poor man like me, only a Rolls Royce will do!"
Now, please don't make any objection to it…because coming
from Lao Tzu to Buddha Hall, a helicopter won't do. Don't create
troubles for me! dh0702
I have been suffering because my sickness is not something that
I can say I am cured of. It is allergy, so it can erupt any moment….
Dust can create it, perfume—most dangerous. And there are
a few things which I should not eat—any things which have
acids. So if I just avoid them…. And in the commune everybody
is aware of my trouble, so nobody will use perfume, nobody will
come close to me if he has been smoking. Nobody will come to me
if he has been perspiring, because any smell is enough to provoke
it. And what it does is it starts breathing trouble; my breathing
becomes abnormal, difficult.
And then coughing starts. Then the coughing will continue at
least for two hours to six hours. It is a problem in the night;
then I cannot sleep. So this disease is such that I can never
say I am cured. And I can never say that I am sick; only once
in a while when something happens I am sick for a few hours. Otherwise
I am perfectly okay.
The second problem I had was my back. So my people have arranged
for that too, because no medical treatment was helping. In India
we had called experts from England who had worked their whole
life only on backs, but they also said that, "This is strange."
I knew that they would not help and I told them that, "The
problem is, it is not a sudden thing—somebody slips and
falls down and the back comes out. Then you can fix it. My problem
is that I have been sitting in this kind of chair for almost thirty
years. The chair changes but the shape remains exactly the same.
So the back has got a certain curve, and if that curve is disturbed,
then I am in trouble."
I cannot sit on your chair. It is more comfortable, but my back
will not fit with it. I can use only one car. I have used all
the cars, the best in the world; the seat of just one car, one
of the models of Rolls Royce, the Silver Spur, fits with me perfectly.
It is not their costliest car; their costliest is the Corniche,
then the Carmargue. And then the third is the Silver Spur. So
I tried a Corniche—they didn't work, my trouble started.
But with the Silver Spur it has settled completely. last224
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