"Why is he afraid? The fear shows many things. In fact AIDS has been brought into the world by the monks of all the religions who preach celibacy. Celibacy automatically leads people into perversion. If he is really interested he should get a certificate, not only for himself, but for all the priests of his great temple in Puri. And most are bound to be found to be homosexuals, because celibacy is such an unnatural imposition that it is bound to turn your life-energy into some kind of perversion.

"Just today one priest in Pune has been found to have AIDS. But as all priests are cunning, he entered his blood in somebody else's name, with somebody else's address. But, by the way, the National Institute of Biology recognized one person and that was the priest. Forty-six other persons are also suffering from AIDS, and that is not the final limit, but all forty-six persons entered their names wrongly, addresses wrongly and the Institute is at a loss where to find them.

"I am not at all worried about being arrested. On the condition that all the priests and monks of India are tested and can prove that they don't suffer from AIDS, I am willing to remain my whole life in a prison. I say it with absolute certainty, because I know the psychology of homosexuals. AIDS is the ultimate outcome of thousands of years of celibacy being forced on people in the name of religion. In India there will be more people suffering from AIDS than in any other country, among the priests, monks and Jaina bhikkhus.

"If the government has courage enough, I will risk my whole life remaining in prisonbut all these people should be checked. This is the only campus, not only in India, but in the whole world, where you cannot enter without a certificate proving AIDS-negative. In what way is this old idiot saying that I have brought AIDS to India?

"Secondly, he goes on insisting that the untouchables need not go to temples because they are 'God's only beloved people.' If the beloved ones cannot enter into a temple, either God is wrong, or his love is a fallacy, a strategy."