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Part IX : World Tour 1985-1986 Cyprus overnight
On 14 November 1985, immediately after his trial, Osho leaves
from Portland airport in a private jet to Delhi. However he has
to remain in Cyprus overnight where he stays in a beachfront hotel.
Three religions—communism, Christianity and Islam—are
covering almost the whole earth. You cannot enter Russia, you
cannot enter China, you cannot enter other communist countries;
you cannot enter Mohammedan countries….
While I was coming back to India, I had to stay the whole night
in Cyprus because Saudi Arabia would not allow me to fly over
the country because it was some religious day. I said, "My
flying over the sky has nothing to do with your religious day.
You can celebrate, you can…. You must not be celebrating
in the sky, you must be celebrating on the earth." But no,
nobody can pass over the country.
And lately I have been informed, particularly because I was there
in a chartered plane…. If somebody else had been there,
they may have allowed them. I would have been flying thousands
of feet above, but I had to wait for twelve hours in Cyprus till
their religious festival was over, and then they let me move.
So the world is full of crude, unintelligent, idiotic ideologies.
It is difficult to turn the wheel of truth. But on the other hand,
for the first time, the youth of the world is no longer interested
in the past. It has lost its roots in the past. It has no respect
for the past because it can see clearly that the past has been
ugly, barbarous; and what man has done to man is intolerable.
And tomorrow this new mind, the new generation, is going to be
powerful everywhere. This generation is open to the future, and
there is every possibility that the new generation will be able
to understand what I am saying without any difficulty.
So there is no need to be worried about the old generation. One
of its legs is almost in the grave—I just have to wait in
Cyprus for twelve hours more and the whole old generation will
have gone into the grave!
But the wheel is going to move. light33
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