Do you wish that the politics in Oregon would be different, in the treatment of you and your followers?

"I don't wish anything, I simply live my life. If that changes somebody, it is his problem. If it changes the politics of Oregon, that is the Oregonian's problem. I am not trying to change anything. I'm not interested in interfering in other people's lives; neither do I want that they should interfere in my life. To me the individual, individuality, is the highest value. I respect the individual. I don't want to be interfered with, nor am I interested in interfering in anybody's life. And that's what politics is – continuously interfering into everybody's life.

"I am not a politician; my people have nothing to do with politics. In fact they have gathered around me to live their lives as joyously and peacefully as possible. They have not gathered around me to create a revolution in the world, change the world, make it a classless society or this and that. We are not interested in all that garbage at all. Tomorrow is always uncertain; even the next moment has no guarantee. We have only this moment to live.

"The politician is a fool. He is destroying his life and he is destroying other people's lives. Everybody should live his life, should sing his song and let everybody else be himself. That will be a really human world. So I do not wish to do anything; I simply live, and my people want to live with me. They love me, they rejoice with me. For them, I am their whole world; for me, they are my whole world. Beyond the red clothes, nothing exists."

Osho,
I don't know a whole lot about Rajneeshism as a religion. Can you explain to me whether you consider yourself to be God, a prophet, a wise man, a teacher? How do you think of yourself or your followers?

"I am not a God – I am not that stupid. Only a stupid God can create this world, this mess, this madhouse. Certainly I am not that idiotic. And I don't think God can be idiotic, so the only answer will be that there is no God."