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-- just the way it goes everywhere around the world. If Russians go on piling up nuclear weapons -- they are afraid of America, America goes on piling nuclear weapons afraid of Russia, and it seems there is no end to it.
And that's what was happening. She created hostility through her statements. Those people created hostility through their statements. And it became a very tense situation.
So if you had felt it, it was not that the commune was going to harm anybody; the commune was simply trying to defend itself. But whether you are trying to defend yourself or harm anybody, there is a atmosphere which can -- any sensitive person can feel. But even I would not prevent it, seeing that if they are having guns. And if I stop my people having guns.... Then tomorrow these people can be killed and I will be responsible.
Q:* BUT YOU AND I KNOW VERY WELL THAT GUNS NEVER SOLVED ANY PROBLEMS.
A:* They never solved any problem, but no guns have also never solved any problem. Just remember it, have no guns solved any problem.
Q:* IT DEPENDS HOW ONE LOOKS AT IT.
A:* No, never; not a single problem has been solved by guns, not a single problem has been solved by no guns. In fact, no problem has been solved.
Q:* I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO IS BHAGWAN RAJNEESH?
A:* I am. (Inaudible) I am exactly what I am, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD WAGNER FROM CBS NIGHTWATCH.
Q: DO YOU ENJOY THE ATTENTION OF ALL OF US, ALL WE REPORTERS WHO COME HERE OR WOULD YOU RATHER WE DIDN'T COME AND ASK YOU THINGS?
A:* No, I love it.
Q:* WHAT IS THE SITUATION HERE NOW? SHEELA AND THE GANG ARE GONE. WHAT IS THE MOOD? WHAT IS THE FEELING AT RAJNEESHPURAM NOW?
A:* Of great rejoicing, as if they have come out of a concentration camp. They are feeling free, unburdened. And for the first time it seems that the commune is a place of absolute freedom, love and joy.
Q:* WHICH IT IS MEANT TO BE, RIGHT?
A:* Which it is meant to be; which Sheela and her gang had destroyed.
Q:* BHAGWAN, HOW WERE THEY ABLE TO DO THAT? HOW COULD THEY DISTORT THE AIM OF THE COMMUNE?
A:* Because I was silent.
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