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over all these poor countries -- that no Western media should be allowed to reach me. That's why the Italian television crew were refused -- because all the Indian embassies have been informed by the Indian government that no news media should reach to me, no sannyasin from outside India should reach to me.
Their whole effort is to isolate me so that the movement suffers and I cannot expose them. To prevent the news media reaching me means I cannot expose them. They are wrong. If the news media cannot reach me, I can reach the news media. I am going around the world. And wherever they can pressurize...
Here, immediately, the American ambassador protested to the king that I should not be allowed to remain in Nepal. In Germany, they pressurized the government to make sure that I could not enter Germany. And they have made a law that I cannot enter Germany. I have never been in Germany! I have not committed any crime in Germany. This is just unprecedented -- that you prevent a person, who has not done anything on your land, from entering your country.
They had to give some reason, and the reason they have shown is so stupid. The reason is because I am not of any help to Germany why should I be allowed to enter? But that should be the case with everybody who enters Germany: whether he is a help to Germany or not. Only for me a special category -- that I am not a help to Germany, so why should I be allowed? Then no tourist should be allowed unless he is a help to Germany.
But one thing that makes me glad is that a single man without any power can frighten the greatest power in the world, can shake it from its very roots.
I will be going around the world. If I cannot enter Germany I will be outside Germany, and my people can come to me. They cannot prevent German sannyasins from coming to me.
I will manage to expose them. There is no need to be angry with them. Just expose them, bring their true face before the world -- that's enough.
Okay?
The Sword and the Lotus
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Don't sow wrong seeds
15 January 1986 pm in
Archive code: 8601155
ShortTitle: SWORD02
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