The New Commune in Kutch, Gujarat



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. last317
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 so the value does not simply disappear. People can come and see love almost visible, tangible. And it is possible. Much work has to be done, so put your whole energy into it. This is your life's opportunity! 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. dh0110
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