Core Insight:
According to Osho, the ashram is the very opposite of a varna system. He denounces Manu’s caste ideology as India’s ‘leprosy.’ In his commune, people from all countries and castes forget color and lineage, are ‘dyed in one color’ of consciousness, and perform varied tasks not by birth or hierarchy but by awareness and love. It is a rebellion against stratification, a laboratory of meditation, equality, and human dignity.