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Deserted, sick and facing jail
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‚I’m lying there sick and weak. What am I going to do now?‘
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I continued working there. Then, one day, I started to feel really sick.
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And at some point I went to the doctor and they said, ‚You got hepatitis‘.
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This was something that happened to many of us, not from needles, but in the beginning when we came to Poona
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– maybe I have to say, I could stay there for a long time because we had cultural visas for the Indian government
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because we were working at the ashram.
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I had like a three or five year visa or something.
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In the beginning you were taking care not to drink the water, not to open your mouth when you’re taking a shower,
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to brush your teeth with mineral water and then after a while you kind of get less and less careful
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and probably either drank some water or used an unclean glass or something and got hepatitis.
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It was the first time I was really ill in my life. Quite an experience.
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I remember once I was laying in bed on my back and I wanted to lift up my arm to do something and I couldn’t.
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It was amazing, amazing experience. But in that time I got very quiet.
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And while I had hepatitis one day my brother Martin or Raj as was his Osho name, or is his Osho name.
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He came and said, ‚Bhagwan left today. He went to America.‘
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And I’m laying there and I’m thinking, ‚Shit. What am I going to do now?‘
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Because I had escaped from the social work. But by law I was still under the army jurisdiction.
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And the penalty for leaving was the same as deserting. Five years in jail.
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In jail.
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So I’m laying there with the body very weak and thinking, ‚Phew. And now what? I can’t stay in India.
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And I don’t want to. He’s not here. He’s in America. I would like to go and spend more time with him.‘
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But to get a visa for America I would have to go to Germany at the time it was like that.
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And I can’t go to Germany because they are going to put me in jail.
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So then I thought, ‚What am I going to do? What am I going to do?‘
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Then I realized that there was an amnesty in Holland.
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They were allowing German army deserters to stay in Holland
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because they didn’t like the fact that the Germans had been allowed to have an army after World War II.
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So they said, ‚We support you guys. You’re okay.‘
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So I went to Holland for a few weeks. While I was in Holland, I remembered something very funny.
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In the beginning of my stay in Poona, I couldn’t find a place to live. All the places were full.
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And I met somebody who had built a bamboo hut on squatter land next to the big river in Poona.
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There was a whole village. We called it Lao Tzu village.
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Illegally built bamboo huts. And we were all living there. Like you cannot imagine.
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Beautiful huts. These were not … let’s say, like a room like this, but was a hut built with bamboo like this.
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Yeah.
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Like a log house, but made out of bamboo. Very beautiful. And there were lots of creative people …
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who knew how to do that sort of thing. Carpenters, woodworkers. So I lived in one of those bamboo huts.
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One of my bamboo hut buddies
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was somebody from Hamburg who used to be the speaker of the police of the city of Hamburg in his past life.
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And he met him in Poona?
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We were staying in the same bamboo hut. We were friends. He was again 20 some years older than me. Very beautiful man.
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And I said,
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‚Ah, maybe he may have some connection to help me out of my predicament there.‘
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So I wrote to him and asked him to help. And he knew somebody from the agency that I had to talk to.
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So I asked him, ‚Ask the guy‘ – this was about one year and eight months I had been away.
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‚If I can come back to Germany or, you know, I don’t want to go to jail or what I can do.‘
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And the guy said, ‚Okay, you can come back‘.
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Because it’s more than six months, it’s … I don’t know the word in English … ‚verjährt‘ (time-barred). Like out of due.
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Yes, it’s no longer valid.
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It’s no longer valid. ‚You can come in, but you’re going to have to do social work.‘
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So, my best friend from childhood picked me up. From Düsseldorf to Amsterdam is only three hours by car.
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We drove to Germany and then I had an appointment in Cologne with the agency and they said,
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‚Oh what happened at the time? Was that kind of a concerted effort? Did you escape with a few guys because a few of you
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few people were missing and we heard they had gone to India. Was the Bhagwan behind it?‘
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I said, ‚Hey listen, nobody ever told me what to do. It was my … my decision. I decided what I wanted to do and I did that.‘
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There was no involvement at all. Zero.
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And I wasn’t protecting anybody or lying. It was how it was. I decided what I wanted and I did.
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And the guy said, ‚Okay, but now you’re going to have to do your social work. And there’s no way out. You’re going to have to do it.‘
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So, I said okay, ‚I’m ready to do it.‘
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So, I found a job working for the ASB. It’s an organization like the Red Cross.
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Okay.
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(German:) ‚Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund‘
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Okay.
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To drive old or handicapped people or injured people to go shopping, to theatre,
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Sensible.
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to Rock concerts, to whatever.
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I remember once I saw Joe Cocker because of that. I took a boy. For him that was great!
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So I did that for one and a half years.
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For me actually was really good because the first time in my life I couldn’t escape when I didn’t want to do something.
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I couldn’t just get up and leave. Always before I had in the back of my mind, ‚Oh if I don’t like it I just walk out.‘
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So it gave me a nice structure. I knew this one I have to do.
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Just before I finished, I got a letter from Bhagwan’s secretary Sheela.
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Who, by the way, is not living too far away from here. She is in Switzerland right now.
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So I got a letter from her. She had replaced the first secretary that Osho had in Poona, the name was Laxmi whom we all loved.
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She was very popular very beautiful.
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And Sheela was a … okay … power hungry person with all these power issues. Anyway she wrote to me she said,
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‚You know what, we bought this place in Oregon, a big farm and we urgently need help. Can you come?‘
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And I’m like, I can’t believe this! My social work is finishing in two weeks and here I’ve got the invitation. I’m like, ‚Yes, yes Okay!‘
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Two weeks later I get on the plane and I end up in Oregon in the community there,
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where I stayed on and off for about three and a half years.
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This is the year?
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1983. Beginning of 83.
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Transcript: René Vögtli
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