"It is just a Rotary Club, changing from one party to another – but you remain the slaves. Whether you choose the Republicans or the Democrats, it makes no difference. Once you have chosen, then for four years in one country, five years in another country, you have given up your democracy. Then the persons you have chosen function in every fascist way.

"This is a direct democracy. If you want to change the name of Rajneesh Mandir to another name, I will be more than happy. But if you don't want to change it, then I am helpless. I am here just as your guest. I cannot go on changing things in your commune.

"So let me ask you: Do you want the name Rajneesh Mandir? Then raise both of your hands and say yes three times!

"(Everyone raises their hands and calls, Yes! Yes! Yes!)

"And who is the person who has asked the question? Please stand up. I would just like to see your beautiful face.

"(There is no response.)

"Don't you have any guts?

"You don't know how this commune functions. Remember, the name can be changed, but with it many other things will be changed too. You will have to do the discourses here; I will not be coming. You will have to guide my people on their spiritual path; I will simply vacate the place for you.

"Whoever has asked this must be feeling deep down that if it was his name, that would have been really nice. It can be. I can persuade my people – although they are against changing it. But they love me, and if I say to them to change it they will do it. But where are you? – because from tomorrow the chair will be empty.

"So don't ask such silly questions. Before you ask anything, think twice. This is not a political assembly, senate, parliament, where you can go on asking all kinds of idiotic questions and waste the time of the whole country for months together. This is not a bureaucracy where files move so slowly.

"I have known one old man – ninety years old – who has been fighting a case for sixty years."