Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

28 September 1970 pm in
Question 1
CHAPTER 7
Make Work a Celebration
QUESTIONER: YOU SAY THAT MARRIAGE IS IMMORAL. AND HERE IS KRISHNA WHO
PERHAPS GOES FOR THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF MARRIAGES IN HISTORY. IS HE GUILTY
OF ENCOURAGING THE IMMORALITY WHICH MARRIAGE IS?
I say marriage is immoral, but I don’t say marrying is immoral. A man and a woman in love with each
other would like to live together, so a marriage stemming from love will not be immoral. But we are
doing just the contrary; we are trying to squeeze love from marriage, which is not possible. Marriage
is a bondage, and love is freedom. But a couple in love would like to live together, which is natural.
This togetherness will flow from love. Marriage should be the shadow of love and not otherwise.
I don’t say that after the abolition of marriage a man and a woman will not live together. The truth
is, only then will they really live together. At the moment they only seem to be living together, they
really don’t live together. Mere physical togetherness is not togetherness. Living in close proximity
in space is not living together. And just to be coupled in marriage is not really coupling, not true
union.
It is the institution of marriage which I call immoral. The institution of marriage would like love to be
banished from the world. As such, every institution is unnatural: it is against man’s natural feelings
and emotions; it cannot exist without suppressing them. When any two people fall in love with each
other, their love is unique and incomparable; no other two people have ever loved each other the
same way. But when two persons get married, that marriage is very ordinary, commonplace, millions
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