Has anyone achieved enlightenment in recent history (last 100 years)?
Yes. Osho, Maharishi, Papaji were all completely enlightened beings. There is absolutely no difference between their state of consciousness and level of clarity and that of Gautama Buddha. Others are also known, many more are completely unknown. Most people who are teaching now though are nowhere near that. They can’t imagine the depth of surrender of these sages, so they tend to say “ah, it’s all so personal”. No, there’s nothing personal about enlightenment, it’s completely impersonal.
Here’s a simple test. Read Osho. For as long as some things that he says sound like his personal opinion to you, and not obvious truth, there’s more. The things that don’t “resonate” as people like to say now, are just the things that you’re not getting yet. Some examples of such things:
You cannot love before you die
Only ugliness can remember beauty
My love is cold, it has not a drop of passion in it, because I have not a drop of hatred in me
Suffer the pain of your aloneness
Your emotional body must dissolve
After enlightenment, your Being starts to hurt you
In my vulnerability, I have become invulnerable
If I see your absence, or I dream of your absence, there’s no difference
My body and my spirit are now one
Not getting it, hehe? Then there’s more!