UNIVERSITY REFERS TO UNIVERSAL; IT MEANS OPEN.''OSHO''

Q:BELOVED BHAGWAN COULD YOU NOW EXPLAIN: WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY 'SANNYAS'? WHAT IS THE CONCEPT?

Is your open university finished? -- because that is your main thing. First, the

word 'university' itself comes from 'universal'. it means open; it cannot be closed.

For example, no university can call itself Hindu university; that is contradiction

in terms. No university can call itself Mohammedan university; it is a

contradiction in terms. A university has to be open, available to all.

And my idea of openness is multi-dimensional. For example, right now I have

been a teacher in the university. Two years are wasted for a small course that can

be finished in two months. The whole six years which make you a master can

easily be finished in one year. It is one of the capacity of human mind, that the

greatest challenge you give to it, the more powerful and more intense it comes.

Our whole education is lazy. I was surprised because I was expelled from many

colleges when I was a student for the simple reason that I told to the professor of

philosophy that, "Whatever you are teaching can be finished within six months;

there is no need for six years." And he was so annoyed by it he took me to the

principal. And I told to the principal that, "I can accept the challenge -- because

this man had his master's degree thirty years before and all that he is teaching is

all bullshit because it is no more relevant. In thirty years philosophy has gone so

far that he does not know even the names of the latest philosophers; he has not

read a single book. And he is teaching us something which is already out of date.

I can teach within six months, six-years course."

The principal said, "Perhaps you are right -- this is my feeling also, being a

principal for many years -- that our education system is really very lazy. It

simply goes on and on; and finally, even when you become a master, what kind

of mastery you have got?

My university will have... first: drop all that is non-essential -- and there is

ninety percent non-essential which is being unnecessarily fed up into people's

mind. Now, what is the need of Tamerlane, Nardishah, Alexander the Great? In

what way they make you more human? In what way they give you the pride of

being human? They are being taught -- but not Farid, not Nanak, not Buddha.

No.

Once my commune is there there is no problem because I have professors, I

have all kinds of people.

Just as I get the land -- if I decide for an island immediately it starts working.

Things will be...

The university will take at least two years to begin with, but the structure will start immediately. 

So first I want to cut out all that is ugly, because my understanding is: the more

you feed people on ugly things, the more you make them accept the ugly. Slowly they feel that this is how human beings are -- they kill, they murder, they war. They do all these things and this is natural, this is just how human beings are. Why, when you can have Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Kabir and beautiful people...? So these people can feel that there is something greater than they are; and that greater has to be achieved, otherwise they would have failed.