LORD MAHAVIRA AND HIS SERMONS (DESANA) AND HIS AUSTERITY(TAPASYA)
Lord Mahavira took to sermons only, after he attained to his nature which, we traditionally know as enlightenment or self-realisation. In the terminology which, we use, we call it KEVAL GYAN . Keval Gyan is not some tangible achievement. Keval gyan, also doesn’t mean knowing past, future n present. Not at all. Keval gyan means keval (only) gyan (knowing). Post realization, what really remains, is only knowing or knowledge because consciousness is, pure illumination and awareness or knowing is the nature of consciousness. Thus, keval gyan means a state of pure awareness or state of pure knowledge. A realised being or keva gyani has nothing, of his own, in him but he has just become knowing only. He is, now, pure consciousness or chetana only and knowing is the nature of chetana . In chetana or consciousness there is nothing else, except gyan or knowing or awareness. That’s why the name consciousness because, chetana is aware or conscious by itself. Knowing is nature of consc...