It shows how different followers claim to have the right teaching 28 years after the death of the founder of the religion. Same happened with Jesus.

It is not good to be a child of a parent who is busy chasing his own tail, spiritually.

Don’t know what that makes me? Perhaps you can enlighten?

Living in a commune would be hard even for an adult who has no spiritual inclination.
Sannyasins function in a different way from ordinary people. If you talk too much, people avoid you because you are “sucking energy”. This never happens in the outside world.

I remember my first time in a commune, 25 years old…. it was hard, I found people’s behaviour weird and inexplicable. There were no explanations. If you are depressed, every member of the community avoids you, because you are “bringing down the energy.” Sometimes people are violent verbally, they shout at you, for insignificant things, in the name of “zen hits”.
Real talk.

I found a commune a pretty lonely place. If you are in the right positive space, everybody is your friend, but if you are in a negative mood, people avoid you, it feels lonely.

I can only imagine how hard would be for a child to deal with these things.

In the end, the child is the parent’s responsibility. They decided to have those children! Why should it be my responsibility or anywhere else’s?

I had experience in several communes with children who lived there, long or short term, and they were quite lonely and bored.

It is lonely, because everyone is meditating and focused on himself. Everyone lives in their aloneness.

Maybe it’s different in a hippie commune, where people don’t meditate, children are happy there: but in a commune full of meditators, everyone is focused on himself, so if you are not a meditator — you feel alone because nobody gives you attention: their attention is focused on their meditation.

Osho had this idealistic view that “the children will be taken care of by the commune”.

In reality, nobody gives a hoot.
The parents had them, it’s their responsibility.

Sometimes you can arrange 2-3 people who can take care of all the children in the commune as a group.
Do you think they will give those kids the same love and attention their mother would? I don’t think so.

Children under 12 need their parent’s attention constantly.

Children over 12 need their own space and not to be stifled by their parents.

I would recommend communes for children over 12, if the child is under 12 the mother needs to be there for him, available at all times, in the commune.

Communal living is hard even if you are an adult – let alone a child.

Maybe a hippie commune where nobody meditates, and everyone is socializing, a child might feel happy.
But meditation communes are for meditators only.

In rare cases where children have a precocious interest in meditation, if they feel happy in such commune, then it’s good. But these are rare exceptions.

Can we see your awakened face, dear Vijay*?!
*(Vijay means victory)