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Why are the dates of historical figures like Christ kept while Krishna's are not?

The dates of mystics are not preserved by their essence but by the minds of their record-keepers; while Christ's birth is fixed in time, Krishna's timelessness transcends such confines, allowing the message to shine beyond the limitations of biography.

— Osho
According to Osho, dates endure or vanish not by the mystics but by their record-keepers. Jesus and Krishna spoke from timelessness; neither kept accounts. Western disciples, time-bound, fixed Christ’s birth; Indian seers, honoring the impersonal and eternal, intentionally erased dates and authorship, letting the message outshine biography. Thus Krishna’s chronology dissolves by design, not deficiency.

Because followers wrote the stories: in the West they stamped dates on a timeless teacher; in India they skipped dates to show the teaching and the divine, not a birthday, mattered.

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