"And our whole staff has fallen in such love with you that they don't want you to be released. They want you to be here.'

"The head nurse said, 'Tomorrow, we will be looking for you and we will miss you.' People are people. If you just have enough love, you can change their hearts very easily. So this was one of the reasons they could not harm me much.

"The second reason was the freedom, the immense freedom of the press. The whole world press, except India, was focused on me. Every jail where I was, was puzzled about what has happened. Twenty-four hours a day there were telephone calls, thousands of telegrams, hundreds of flowers reaching from all parts of the world. 'If so many people love this man, there must have been some mistake.'

"And the press was continuously around every jail – in their helicopters with their cameras, cameras on the gate, cameras in the trees. They never left me for a single moment in twelve days. And just in my passing from one jail to another – at least I had to come out of the gate – even in those few moments they would ask me, 'Are they harming you? Just one word from you and the whole world will see the real fascist face of America.' Afraid of the press, they could not do much.

"So my health is perfectly good.

Osho,
What is the best way to encourage people in meditation?

"The first thing: for a patient to go to the doctor, you must make him realize that he is sick; otherwise there is no need to go to the doctor.

"So the people you want to encourage into meditation: first you have to make them aware that they are frustrated, perhaps for so long that they have forgotten that they are sad. They cannot remember when they laughed from their very hearts. They have become robots – they do things because they have to be done but there is no joy in doing them.

"They are living an accidental life. Their birth is accidental, their marriage is accidental, their children are accidental, their job is accidental. Their life has no sense of intrinsic growth and direction."