Core Insight:
According to Osho, Mahavira denied God, worship, prayer, and even love because, as a Tirthankara, he offers an impersonal ford, not a hand-holding relationship. Personal devotion breeds dependence and bondage; principles and self-effort free you. He sets the path, maps the crossing, and leaves your freedom intact—no emotional entanglement, no mediator, only your responsibility to traverse.