Bunte, Offenburg, West Germany

Boy, would my one-year-old daughter love you! It’s quite an entrance, a lot of fun.
This is my very first interview. I’m glad that it could be with you. I’m usually hiding behind a camera.
The first few questions I have were given to me by Bunte editors directly and they were sent here, and then I have a few questions of my own.

Okay.

Osho,
Since when have you been aware of the dangers of AIDS?

It was going to happen some day. It is something to do with how life functions. Life functions through polarities. The opposite poles create the tension for life. Life is a tension, death is a relaxation.

It is just like positive electricity and negative electricity: if both are not functioning together there will not be any electricity. So in existence, opposites are really not opposites but complementaries. The same is the case with bioenergy: man and woman are positive and negative poles. Their meeting is the meeting of positive and negative energy. It is creative of life.

So even before AIDS became known, I was aware that homosexuality is spreading fast. Sooner or later something very dangerous is going to happen, because homosexuality means there is no tension; man and man are the same poles. They can only create death, not life.

I have always been telling people to move in their natural, biological sex relationships – man to woman. But about AIDS I became aware just last year, that that of which I was always afraid has come. It was bound to come sooner or later. It is a by-product of homosexuality. And homosexuality is a religious disease: if anybody is responsible for it, it is the founders of all the religions. They have committed this crime, perhaps unknowingly, because first they told people that celibacy is something spiritual, which is sheer nonsense.

Celibacy is impossible. Nobody has ever been a celibate, unless he was impotent. But the most surprising thing is that the impotent people have not contributed anything to human progress, evolution. They have never been creative; they are just hollow, they have no potency to create.