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Part VII : The New Commune in Kutch, Gujarat
In September 1977, arrangements are made to move in December
to Kutch, Gujarat, where the New Commune is being set up. Osho
talks about his vision for the New Commune.
Kutch is part of Gujarat. Kutch is desert, dry. And the palace
in Kutch… The father of the present Maharajah, had the same
problem with allergies, so experts have explored all over Kutch,
where the palace should be made, so it was exactly made as if
for me. The palace was in such a place that the place was cool,
dry, and immensely beautiful. And since the maharajah died, nobody
has lived in that palace. And it was big enough for my commune;
seven-hundred acres, and almost one thousand people could live,
immediately, and then we could create more and we could purchase
more, because Kutch is almost empty—nobody lives there.
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The architect who has been to start work on the new commune
in Kutch has returned and says: It seems a little paradise.
It is! And you have to make it one. Much has to be done there.
We have to make it a paradise—small, but a paradise. It
has to be converted into an oasis. The world is turning into a
desert. People are losing all that is beautiful, all that is valuable.
Values are disappearing. Man is becoming very very barren. If
this continues then after one century love will become just absurd;
the word will not mean anything. And that is the very heart! The
day love disappears, all disappears—freedom and dignity
and all. The day love disappears, man is a machine. It is only
love that keeps man as something above being a machine.
Mathematics can be done by the computer, logic can be done by
the computer…and far more efficiently than by man. Only
love cannot be done by the computer. So that is the only quality
that can save. That is the only thing that is more in man than
in a machine.
We have to create a love oasis...justdo26
This whole experiment is to bring a kind of Buddhahood into
the world. This commune is not an ordinary commune. This is an
experiment to provoke god. You may not be aware of what is going
to happen. You may be aware only of your problems—you may
have come to me only to solve your problems. That is secondary;
I am cooking up something else! (laughter) I am trying to create
a space where god can descend more and more. This commune will
become a connection. The world has lost connection; god is no
more a reality. The connection is broken, and god can only be
through the connection. God may be there, we are here, but there
is no bridge so how do we know? This commune is an experiment
to create the bridge…. justdo19
Feel happy that you are becoming part of this great milieu.
Each sannyasin has to contribute much, because we are trying to
materialise a great dream, a dream in which East and West can
meet, a dream in which all religions can meet, a dream in which
the earth can become our home—undivided, without conflict
and war, without nations and races and colour divisions.
Sannyas is a vision of a new world. Rightly understood it contains
all that is beautiful from the past and all that is going to be
beautiful in the future. It is a turning point. So be glad that
you are also becoming part of something which is almost impossible
but which still can happen. tongue10
I would like my whole commune to live in as much comfort as
possible. The commune has to become a model—a model for
the whole world. My sannyasins are to live in every possible joy:
physical, psychological, spiritual. The joys of the body and the
joys of the mind and the joys of the spirit—all have to
be lived in such a harmony that a new man is born out of that
harmony.
That's why I say: Be scientific, be aesthetic, and be religious.
Out of these three dimensions, out of the meeting of these three
rivers, the fourth will be created. And the fourth is my way.
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