Why is the birthplace and time period of Gorakh Nath Ji unknown despite being a supreme enlightened man?

You have placed gorakh nath ji among the four supreme most enlightened men of india. But it is surprising that even the place of birth and period in time of such a great and exalted man are unknown. Why is this?

And these small-small enclosures, these dikes have troubled man too much. In three thousand years five thousand wars have been fought. And previously it was okay if wars fought with bows and arrows went on happening, there was no harm. If a few people died there was no problem. Now, war is total war. Now it is the suicide of all mankind. Now every place can become a Hiroshima -- any day, at any moment... Consider the horror of this war and think of how much energy is going into it. This same energy can fill the entire earth with greenery, can fill it with prosperity. For the first time man can dance absorbed in bliss, can sing songs of ecstasy, can follow the quest of meditation. But this will not happen. Your so called patriots, these nationalists... Nationalism is a great sin. It is due to this nationalism that…

Osho, you have titled this series of talks “Sahaj Yoga.” Do “sahaj” and “yoga” not seem mutually opposed?

Anand Maitreya! They don’t just seem opposed, they are opposed. But no ultimate truth of life can manifest without contradiction. Life is made of opposites—darkness and light, day and night, woman and man, negative electricity and positive electricity, birth and death. The very structure of life is woven of opposites. Hence the opposites are not only opposed; they are complementary to each other. If you have labored hard all day, you will be able to sleep deeply. Labor and rest are opposites, yet only the one who has worked can rest deeply—and the one who has not worked cannot. So the opposites are not only opposed, they complete each other. And only the one who has rested deeply at night can rise in the morning and engage in work again. One who has not rested through the night will not be able to work in the morning. Look closely at…

Question: NEITHER ISNESS NOR NO-ISNESS, NEITHER EMPTINESS NOR FULLNESS, SO UNFATHOMABLE, BEYOND THE SENSES. WITHIN THE CROWN OF THE HEAD A CHILD SPEAKS, HOW SHALL HE BE NAMED? LAUGHING, PLAYING, THE KNACK OF MEDITATION, DAY AND NIGHT SHARING DIVINE KNOWLEDGE. HE LAUGHS, PLAYS, KEEPS MIND UNTROUBLED SUCH UNWAVERING ONE IS ALWAYS WITH GOD. DAY AND NIGHT DISSOLVING MIND IN NO-MIND, DROPPING FATHOMABLE TALKING THE UNFATHOMABLE. DROPPING HOPE REMAINING HOPELESS: BRAHMA THE CREATOR SAYS, "I AM YOUR SERVANT." WHAT FLOWS DOWN, HE CHANNELS UP, A YOGI BURNS UP HIS SEX. HE RELEASES HIS EMBRACE, SHATTERS ILLUSION: VISHNU THE SUSTAINER WASHES HIS FEET. DIE, O YOGI, DIE! DIE, SWEET IS DYING. DIE THAT DEATH GORAKH DIED AND SAW. Then I listed for him: Krishna, Patanjali, Buddha, Gorakh... because Mahavira is not very different from Buddha. Just a tiny difference and that too only a difference in expression.

Questioner: what is the time of krishna's birth? What investigations have been made up to now? And what is your own view on this matter? Do you think an enlightened person cannot rightly answer such a question?

No, Jesus, Buddha, Mahavira and Krishna cannot be imprisoned in a moment. We do try to imprison them so, because we are attached to our limitations, to our fragments. The day people in the West grow in understanding, they will forget all about the time of Christ's birth and death. In this matter the understanding of the people of the East is much deeper. And it has given rise to a lot of misunderstanding in the West in regard to us. The way we look at things, the way we think and say things is such that the world cannot understand. When someone from the West wants to know about the lives of the tirthankaras he is astounded to hear that some of them lived for millions of years. How can he accept it? It seems to be impossible. How can he believe that some of the tirthankaras were as…

Verse (Sanskrit): बसती न सुन्यं सुन्यं न बसती अगम अगोचर ऐसा। गगन सिषर महिं बालक बोले ताका नांव धरहुगे कैसा।। हसिबा खेलिबा धरिबा ध्यानं। अहनिसि कथिबा ब्रह्मगियानं। हंसै षेलै न करै मन भंग। ते निहचल सदा नाथ के संग।। अहनिसि मन लै उनमन रहै, गम की छांड़ि अग की कहै। छांड़ै आसा रहे निरास, कहै ब्रह्मा हूं ताका दास।। अरधै जाता उरधै धरै, काम दग्ध जे जोगी करै। तजै अल्यंगन काटै माया, ताका बिसनु पषालै पाया।। मरौ वे जोगी मरौ, मरौ मरन है मीठा। तिस मरणी मरौ, जिस मरणी गोरष मरि दीठा।। Transliteration: basatī na sunyaṃ sunyaṃ na basatī agama agocara aisā| gagana siṣara mahiṃ bālaka bole tākā nāṃva dharahuge kaisā|| hasibā khelibā dharibā dhyānaṃ| ahanisi kathibā brahmagiyānaṃ| haṃsai ṣelai na karai mana bhaṃga| te nihacala sadā nātha ke saṃga|| ahanisi mana lai unamana rahai, gama kī chāṃr̤i aga kī kahai| chāṃr̤ai āsā rahe nirāsa, kahai brahmā hūṃ tākā dāsa||…