Whatsoever we do,
the earth is going to die; now it is old. Many things will happen which will
help it to die: the population explosion will help, atomic research will help,
pollution will help, chaotic trend, revolutions, rebellions will help;
everything will help this earth to die.
Man going to the moon is a very symbolic act.
Whenever some planet dies, life tries to go somewhere else.
It happens only then, never before. Whenever some planet is going to die, life
begins to try to go somewhere else, to be replanted somewhere else. Still
scientists are not able to find out from where life came to this earth; there
seems to be no reason how it can come up suddenly. It must have come from
somewhere else. It is possible that some old earth dying, some ancient planet
dying, and its sun.... Even one man and one woman transplanted to this earth
would create the whole thing. It may have been Adam and Eve coming from some
other planet which was dying; and two are enough to create millions. It is felt
deeply that this earth is going to die soon; that is why there is so much
search to go beyond this earth -- to the moon, to Mars, or to somewhere,
somewhere to find a home again. Life is just going to die here. Neither
politicians can help us, not pacifists.
This earth is going to die.
Everything born is bound to die some time. And for the earth, one thousand, two
thousand years are nothing. So it may continue, but it is just on the verge.
Every symptom shows that it is just on the verge. So one earth may be born,
another may die. One world may be born. When I say world, I don't mean total,
because there are many, many worlds. Our world consists of the solar system:
this sun and the family of this sun. We don't know.
Out there are other worlds; there are many universes ....
OshO
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