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QUESTION: BHAGWAN, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR
SPEAKING WITH US TONIGHT. A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, YOU
ADOPTED A VOW OF SILENCE. RECENTLY, YOU HAVE DECIDED TO
SPEAK OUT TO YOUR SUPPORTERS AND THEN TO US HERE TODAY. WHY
HAVE YOU DECIDED TO SPEAK OUT NOW?
ANSWER: I live spontaneously. I never decide anything beforehand. I keep
tomorrow open. If I feel like speaking, I speak. If I feel like being silent, then
there is no other way than to be silent. And I never ask myself why, because no
why is answerable. All answers are arbitrary. So I simply go on floating with the
river, never asking where it is going, why it is going, where it is going to end.
And this is my basic approach to life: a total letgo.
Q: WAS THERE A REASON THAT YOU DECIDED TO ADOPT THE VOW OF
SILENCE IN THE FIRST PLACE, OR WAS THERE ALSO NO REASON?
A: There is never any reason. I don’t live by reason. I simply allow things to
happen. I don’t know why I became silent. I don’t know why I started to speak
again, but I enjoyed being silent and I’m enjoying being out of silence again. I
don’t know about tomorrow. I may be silent, I may be speaking. I may not be
here at all.
Q: WHEN YOU WENT BEFORE THE IMMIGRATION SERVICE FOR A VISA
AS A RELIGIOUS LEADER, THE COMMENT WAS MADE BY THE OFFICIALS
OF THE SERVICE THAT HOW COULD YOU BE A RELIGIOUS LEADER IF
YOU DIDN’T SPEAK? DID THAT HAVE ANY INFLUENCE ON YOU AT ALL?