KATMANDU, Nepal— Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, ‘ordered to leave his sprawling Oregon commune because of immigration law violations, arrived in Nepal today from New Delhi, but denied he was permanently leaving his homeland.

About 1,000 followers clad in orange robes welcomed him with flowers at the Katmandu Airport and led him off to a posh hotel in the capital of the Himalayan kingdom.

“I have been invited by my followers to spend four weeks in Nepal.”

The guru’s followers said he planned to spend only three weeks in Nepal.

“I have no plans to settle in Nepal,” the 54yearold Rajneesh said.

Ma Ananda Sarita, a spokeswoman for the Rajneesh puram commune in central Oregon, said the guru Thursday left a Himalayan resort in Manali, India, where he had been living since he was ordered to leave the United States in November.

Rajneesh arrived at New Delhi airport in a white Mercedes Benz early today and was greeted by about 200 supporters, He smiled, pressed his hands together in a traditional Indian greeting, but declined to speculate on his future plans.

“He lives from moment to moment, and we really don’t know where he will be going tomorrow,” said one senior aide accompanying him.

Sarita said: “We don’t know why he is going or how long he is going to stay.”

Rajneesh told the Indian Express newspaper last Friday he was fed up with Indian greed and will start a commune on a tropical island near Fiji in the South Pacific, He had said his return to India ‘was a final homecoming, but in the Express interview he indicated he was ready 10 move on.

“The Indian mind is so greedy and materialistic in spite of all the nonsense spoken about spiritualism,” he said.

Since his return, the Indian press has ridiculed the guru for his philosophy of sexual freedom and his wealth. Some members of the guru’s household were ordered out of India last month when their visas expired and reportedly are in Nepal.

Nevertheless, Rajneesh said today in Katmandu “I have no plans to leave India.”

There are two Rajneesh ashrams, or communes, in Nepal, one in Katmandu and the other in the resort town of Pokhara, about 93 miles west of the capital.

Article extracted from this publication >> January 10, 1986