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complex, or to go criminal -- find some shortcut to become rich and be powerful. And that's what happened to Sheela.
And particularly because she was a woman, it is even more obvious. Because women have been kept out of power, out of positions for centuries.
In the commune my effort was that this should not be the case. The women should be given equal opportunity. In fact, more opportunity than men to compensate. And for three and half years I was in silence, in isolation, and she had all the power, so it is very human.
She was from a poor family, she was just a waitress in a hotel when she had come to me. She had never seen so much money -- three hundred million dollars suddenly can make anybody mad.
Q: SO IT WAS JUST TOO BIG A TEMPTATION?
A: Yes, it was too big a temptation and she could not tolerate. She could not manage.
So I am not angry at her at all. I simply feel compassion.
Q: WOULD YOU WELCOME HER BACK IF SHE CAME....?
A: Certainly, if she comes she is welcome. Because I can understand human weakness and human weaknesses should not be punished. They should be understood and they should be helped to be cured.
And she had immense power because five thousand sannyasins were there under her and one million sannyasins around the world were under her because I was in isolation and she was my secretary and she was the only communication between me and the sannyasins.
Seeing so many people under her power she got suddenly an unconscious urge to remain in this power forever.
Now the only problem for her was if I start speaking again that will be the end of her whole power trip. So she was afraid, she wanted to kill my personal physician for the simple reason so she can plant her own personal physician for me, who can keep me alive but not healthy enough to be active again in the commune -- a simple logical thing.
She was persuading me that I should not start speaking because it will endanger my health.
I said to her, that "I have always lived spontaneously... the moment I wanted not to speak I stopped speaking. Now I want to speak. Tomorrow morning I will start speaking.
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