Indeed, as Parmartha states here, he did fly straight up to Kulu Manali after arriving in Delhi and giving this interview. There, up in the mountains, Osho rested and gave other press interviews which are collected in the book ‘Light On The Path’.

There had been plans for a new commune up in Manali but this never materialised. Osho ended up travelling up to Kathmandu in Nepal where he continued giving his talks and press interviews.

In Nepal, he spoke of buying an island in the Pacific that Marlon Brando was trying to sell, the connection presumably came through Hasya who knew Brando personally through her collaboration with her ex-husband Albert S. Ruddy in the production of ‘The Godfather’ movie.
I wonder why that deal with the island never materialised.

Osho spoke about the possibility of building a new commune on that place , an atoll, which was actually a group of twelve small islands in the South Pacific, that could be expanded with the use of houseboats and floating gardens.

“In my conception we can, for the first time, manage anarchism and communism both together. Just remove currency within the commune, and without any enforcement, without forcing people to be equal, we have brought a classless society. They will remain unequal; they will remain unique; they will remain themselves. And the commune’s function is to fulfill their needs. Their needs are different: somebody who plays on a flute needs a flute, and somebody who wants to play on a guitar needs a guitar.

In every dimension people should remain themselves, but the dignity of humanity will be equal because they have equal opportunity – and no government, because government is not needed.
There can be only a functional organization, just like the post office. Nobody knows who is the head postmaster of India – there is no need and the post office is working perfectly well. It is a functional organization. The railways – now, who knows who is the chief of the board of the railways? It is a functional organization. So we can have functional organizations without having any government.

There will be no need for any visas for anybody to come for as long as he wants to stay; there will be no need for any passport. At least we can create one place in the world where no nationality is recognized, no religion is recognized, no political boundaries are recognized. And perhaps that may give the idea to other people, that it is possible – and these are the same human beings, they have come from us. Just an absolutely clear-cut model is needed.

So there is no need to be worried. It is only a question of a few weeks..And soon we will have our own place, and I will call all my people to start working. And we can absorb as many people as we want, because we are not thinking of making houses, we are thinking of making houseboats. Then the ocean is unlimited; then there is no problem about it. Why bother about land? Just a small piece of land will be enough for the functional things – the hotel, the airport. Otherwise we can go on spreading on the ocean…

Man has not tried to live…otherwise water can be a far more beautiful place to live. Freedom to move – otherwise you become attached to the house, to the land. And I know of methods in Japan: they float gardens on the water. They mix straw with earth and float it, and then you can put any seeds on it; you can have roses and you can have all kinds of flowers. Japan has tried floating gardens for thousands of years; it is a perfect science.”

Osho: ‘Light On The Path‘, Chapter 3: ‘Now my commune exists all over the world‘.
27 December 1985 pm, in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Osho stated that ‘for the first time we can manage anarchism and communism together’ – although in fact in 1929, anarcho-communism had been achieved in Korea by the Korean Anarchist Federation in Manchuria (KAFM) and the Korean Anarcho-Communist Federation (KACF), with help from anarchist general and independence activist Kim Chwa-chin, which lasted until 1931, when Imperial Japan assassinated Kim and invaded from the south, while the Chinese Nationalists invaded from the north, resulting in the creation of Manchukuo, a puppet state of the Empire of Japan.

Also during the Spanish Revolution within the Spanish Civil War in 1936, Through the efforts of Spanish anarchists anarcho-communism existed in most of Aragon, parts of the Levante and Andalusia as well as in the stronghold of anarchist Catalonia before being crushed in 1939 by the combined forces of the Francoist Nationalists (the regime that won the war).

Anarcho-communist currents also appeared during the English Civil War and the French Revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries, respectively. Gerrard Winstanley, who was part of the radical Diggers movement in England, wrote in his 1649 pamphlet ‘ The New Law of Righteousness’ that there “shall be no buying or selling, no fairs nor markets, but the whole earth shall be a common treasury for every man” and “there shall be none Lord over others, but every one shall be a Lord of himself”.

The Diggers themselves resisted tyranny of the ruling class and of kings, instead operating in a cooperative fashion in order to get work done, manage supplies, and increase economic productivity. Due to the communes established by the Diggers being free from private property, along with economic exchange (all items, goods and services were held collectively), their communes could be called early, functioning communist societies, spread out across the rural lands of England.

Here’s a photo of Marlon Brando’s island in the South Pacific that Osho’s crew were hoping to purchase:

Unfortunate, as that was a rare piece of footage, as I remember the video of Osho sitting very still in his cell and an American television crew commentating that “apparently he doesn’t move around that much.“

Anyway, here’s another video, different but still with a little footage of Osho’s Nightline interview with Ted Koppel in Mecklenberg County Jail:

https://youtu.be/UBzp3RiXj7s

I have not yet found the entire footage of that interview which Osho insisted on giving when he was in jail.

But I have found yet another compilation of rare footage of the end of the Ranch and Osho’s jail time, this one has Osho coming into the Nightline interview with namaste at 2.30 minutes: https://youtu.be/0sUm0J-eq1I

The press interview that Osho gave on that morning in Delhi, after having just a few hours sleep after arriving ]back in India at night from the US, is available to listen to freely as an mp3 on the Oshoworld site – however ], the site is currently down due to maintenance. Meanwhile, until the video is available again, here’s a shot of Osho with Ms. Indu Jain, who sat next to him meditating with him during that press conference:

WHY IT IS SO, MADHU?”
Perhaps SN contributors can provide some tips as to why the world is creating a victim out of you, why there is repulsion?

Do these people around you have no understanding of a woman full with Osho´s energy? Or there is another reality?

And, given those circumstances, there would seem even more reason to avoid media ‘over-kill’, wouldn’t there?

And even if people totally unknown to me (mostly males) spit out when they see me on the streets here the last years or have a massaging grip on their sexual machineries while looking at me, or women of the same area screaming “Allah Akabar” when stalking in a cheap supermarket, or when German neo-fascists here show up bald-headed with a Nazi swastika tattoo, stalking me the moment I leave the house and apartment…or the Turkish mother, the direct neighbour, whom I liked and wanted to become more acquainted with, who declared she is avoiding me for “cultural reasons”; or another one, when former Sannyas friends, like OM, a musician, did ask me last year around that time and totally out of the blue so to say, asked if I now would want to commit suicide…just like this, without giving me a clue why he was asking this…

So you are even more right, because if people don´t have any compassion at all it is truly so unrealistic to expect even a minimum.

And just a very few particles of everyday experiences I have to face for quite some time, Satyadeva, in the city jungle of unconciousnesses.

Experiences which have nothing to do with MY reading some ‘yellow press’ of some Facebook accounts, but very obvious with other people’s dealing with ‘Information-Age’ and going into action.

Btw, when I spoke of compassion in my response I had no idea of limits but meant:
Either compassion (empathy) is there. Or not.

So you teaching other stuff according to that matter, aren’t you? And yes, your approach is truly ‘more realistic’. According at least to street life nowadays. Fatwas unlimited. As a game.

Compassion? None.

Just to give you a little realistic background on everyday affairs I am confronted with – here where I am living.

Madhu

Yes, there you are right, Satyadeva.

Madhu

Easy to forget, we wore uniforms at the time. We were a generation whose parents fought in the second world war, assisted in the second world war.

Our collective and individual psychology must have had so much going on about power and authority, and hierarchy, and conservative organisations, because of the connections of parents and grandparents, and teachers, and uniforms and military organisations of one branch or other.

Given all that, I was suggesting that dwelling upon all the psychopathology of the world via the outpourings of the media – whether “yellow press” or ‘serious broadsheets’, tv or radio, online social media or blog – is not exactly conducive to nurturing one’s well-being.

If that sounds uncaring to you then perhaps you are imposing unrealistic limits on what you understand by “compassion”.

And btw, what exactly do you mean by my “second chapter”?

Satyadeva, just re-read your second chapter again, then you will know. Maybe.

Otherwise, I feel sorry for you, when besides the yellow press or similar stuff there seems to be no variety of quality available.

I wonder about the sources you use to dare to describe the life I am living.

Third point is:
Compassion is not just a word.

Madhu

P.S:
We had this kind of ‘ping-pong’ already happening long ago; enough is enough.