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Part IX : World Tour - Litigation against Osho
6th to 23rd December Osho stops interviews because of litigation
against him.
You had stopped giving interviews in the last fifteen days?
Yes, for fifteen days I had to stop, because everywhere is so
much ugliness. All over the world we talk about freedom of thinking
and freedom of expression, but nowhere it is allowed. As I landed
in Delhi after America, I gave my first press conference. In that
press conference I have not said anything about any religion because
it was not the context. Still from far away Bengal a summons has
come I have hurt their religious feelings, so I have to appear
before the court in January. Second summons have come and third
we are informed is coming. So my people thought that it will be
better before we establish…
Right now we don't have even a single legal person, so they
suggested that for ten, fifteen days I should wait. Our legal
persons are coming, and then they can take care of all these cases.
These are harassment cases and it is very easy to put a case against
anybody that you have hurt my religious feeling… last506
In America there are international, private security agencies.
I have the best international security agency working for me to
inform me about all the secrets that is going on in governments
against me or for me. Now from America I have received the information
that: 'India is finished for you because Indian politicians are
under too much pressure by the American politicians. And if you
don't believe us you can try to check their confidential file.'
And one of the friends who had the approach managed to check the
file and they were right.
The American government is trying to tell them that I should
not be directly attacked because that becomes a difficult matter
to arrange…they have seen, they attacked me directly and
they have seen how they became a target of world news media and
lost immense prestige. "Don't attack me directly," that
is their suggestion, "but don't allow foreigners to be here…"
so that I cannot work. Because I have trained my four thousand,
five thousand people for every work…
So now the American government pressure on Indian government is
that `I should not be attacked directly but I should not be allowed
my trained people to live with me, so the whole work can be destroyed.'
last508
I have been informed by very intimate sources to the government
that first they don't want any foreigners to be here, so anybody
who wants to be here cannot get a visa. The people who had come
with me, they gave only a standing ticket for three weeks and
they will not extend it into visa. It is against their policy;
their policy is to increase as much tourism as possible. And through
me they can increase their tourism to thousands.
In America every year at least fifty thousand people were coming
from all over the world, so to cut all the foreigners from me
who are accustomed to do my work—printing, editing, filming,
making houses, making roads. In these four years we have trained
all kinds of skills. So those people particularly who have been
in American commune should not be allowed. And that's what they
have been doing; they are not allowing them.
Left alone to myself I cannot create a commune. With Indians it
is very difficult to create that kind of thing. last506
Even being in my own country I feel helpless. The people who
have been taking care of me: my physician, my caretaker, my washer
woman, my cleaners, my typists, they all have been thrown out
of the country.
The president of the international sannyas movement had been
given six month visa, just with one entry. She tried hard, she
is a woman of immense creative intelligence. Perhaps she has made
the best film that has ever been made, "Godfather."
Her film has received more awards than any film ever. And these
bureaucrats will not give her a second entry. She said, "It
is useless, because I am the president of the movement and I will
have to come and go to talk to Osho about problems," but
they are not willing to give her a second entry.
She is stuck in Nepal. She had sent a message that, "They
are not giving me a second entry."
One man, for one month, the secretary of the sannyas movement
has been waiting in Delhi to see the prime minister to make our
situation clear to him, that "You need not be afraid, we
are not going to do anything that can harm your country. Whatever
we propose will be beneficial. It cannot be in any way harmful."
But for one month he has not been able to see the prime minister.
He has been given at least twelve times appointments and at the
exact moment the appointment is cancelled.
Now how to work in such conditions? last509
The Indian government wanted me to stay in India, but with conditions.
One: no foreign disciple should be allowed to come to see me.
Two: no news media should be allowed to interview me. Three: I
will not go out of the country. If I fulfilled these three conditions
then I could stay in the country.
I said, "Why don't you simply shoot me? These conditions
are just to kill me!" And I had to leave the country because…there
are many sannyasins in high posts in the government who informed
me that I should leave immediately because they were going to
confiscate my passport so I could not get out of the country.
I had not enough time, they said, to get a visa, to go to another
country. Moreover they had informed all the embassies in Delhi
that nobody should give me a visa to their country. So the only
country that was available was Nepal, because no visa is needed—that
is a treaty between India and Nepal. psycho23
I loved the place where I stayed in Kulu Manali for the simple
reason that the river passing by was so full of rocks…day
in, day out, there was music, there was dance. But as you know
about me, even in my own country I am a foreigner. The government
to which Kulu Manali belongs started freaking out. They had made
a law that a man who is not born in their state cannot purchase
any land—just to prevent me. But I needed a vast land for
my commune, and it is as retarded a part of the country as you
can conceive—uneducated, poor, completely in the grip of
the politicians.
You will be surprised that the day I left Kulu Manali, the arrangement
was that they were going to arrest me on a very fictitious, absurd
account. To them it may have looked like very solid ground….
As I left Kulu Manali, just within one hour the arrest warrant
reached the place I had been living in. The arrest warrant was
hilarious—and makes me feel about our experts that they
are donkeys loaded with knowledge.
The reason for arrest was that I had paid four hundred thousand
dollars in fines in America, so I have to pay tax and I have to
explain from where I got the money. I have never paid any fine
anywhere in the world. I don't know even the names of the people
who paid the fine. Even my jailer was surprised, because they
were not expecting it, knowing perfectly well that I don't have
a single cent to pay. And imposing four hundred thousand dollars…it
is nearabout sixty lakh rupees. From where am I going to pay it?
But I am not a man who worries about anything. Not for a single
moment did the idea even arise in me that this could be a strategy—to
keep me in jail until the fine was paid.
And I never think of the tomorrow. Today is too beautiful and
too fulfilling—who cares about tomorrows which never come?…
I left Kulu Manali just one hour before—I was still at the
airport when they reached the hut where I had been living near
the river. And now again the Indian government is continuously
sending letters saying that I have to pay taxes. It is such a
stupid and illogical step—in logic they call it infinite
regression—if I pay the tax, then I have to pay tax on the
money that I am paying as tax. Naturally…where is it going
to end? Whenever I pay tax, I owned that money—on that money
I have to pay the tax again. And it will go on infinitely. Either
you stop at the first step or there is no way to stop. And they
know perfectly well that I don't have any money, I don't have
any possessions. Everything the people who love me allow me to
use, belongs to them.
But governments are always stupid. In fact, if you are not stupid
you are not qualified to be in the government. Can't they see
the point? If somebody else has paid the fine, and I don't even
know their names, how can I be asked to pay tax?
But the same foolishness prevails over the whole world in all
the bureaucracies. It seems the moment they become bureaucrats
their minds stop functioning. mani14
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