According to Osho, Mahavira sought the Supreme Truth hidden within one's own consciousness—a realization no master can give. External subjects need teachers, but inner awakening demands direct, unmediated experience. Refusing any intermediary to preserve purity, he chose the solitary 'flight of the alone to the Alone,' neither bowing to gurus nor becoming one, pursuing truth firsthand.
He was searching for the deepest truth inside himself that only he could find, so he didn’t go to any teacher or middleman.