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HE WAS A VEGETARIAN...?
A: He was a vegetarian..
Q: BUT HE WAS NOT NONVIOLENT, AS MAHATMA GANDHI WAS.
A: Mahatma Gandhi was also not nonviolent. Just wait a bit; let me finish with Adolf Hitler. He was a vegetarian. He was an early riser in the morning, going early back to sleep. He remained a bachelor almost his whole life -- only three hours before he died, he married. He was not a drunkard, he was not a smoker. He was a puritan in every possible way, and he lived a life of discipline, just as a saint lives in a monastery.
You ask me if Gandhi was nonviolent. That was a political strategy -- but he was not nonviolent. He had declared that after India became independent, armies would be dissolved. But when India became independent and he was asked about armies being dissolved, he remained silent. He was really a cunning man. His secretary said that it was his day of silence.
Q: MAY I DRAW BACK YOUR ATTENTION TO ADOLF HITLER: IS IT TRUE THAT YOU HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN COMMON WITH HITLER? THERE WAS A JOKE RELATED BY MA ANAND SHEELA -- I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT'S TRUE. YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE TOLD THE JOKE OF A TIGER WHO STUCK HIS NOSE INTO THE ASS OF ANOTHER TIGER AND WHEN HE WAS ASKED WHY HE DID THAT, HE SAID, "WELL I JUST ATE A JEW AND I WANT TO GET RID OF THAT BAD TASTE. " IS THAT TRUE? IS THAT PROPERLY RELATED, THAT JOKE?
A: It will be good if you don't bring Sheela or anybody in between me and you. Be direct.
Q: DID YOU TELL THIS JOKE? IS THAT YOUR JOKE?
A: I cannot remember. For thirty-three years I have been speaking constantly, two hours in the morning, two hours in the evening. Perhaps there is no single individual alive who has spoken as much as I have spoken. So, ask the question!
Q: DO YOU LIKE JEWS OR DON'T YOU LIKE JEWS?
A: I love them -- what is the question of liking? I have among my sannyasins more Jews than anybody else. Almost forty percent of my sannyasins are Jews.
Q: FROM ISRAEL, OR AMERICAN JEWS?
A: From America, from Israel, from Europe, from Germany.
Q: THAT MEANS YOU DON'T HAVE ANY NATIONAL, ANY RACIAL PREJUDICES?
A: I don't
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