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Jainism : Through Science is desired, an ordinary man loses mental equilibrium. The former of these two ideologies“ (I am alone and nothing belongs to me. I belong to none) helps to maintain the mental equilibrium. He who wishes good of others should not bother about his own unhappiness. This ideology enables a man to bear his unhappiness. In short this former ideology helps a man to maintain his equilibrium in the midst of miseries and poverty and to contemplate upon the natural form of the soul. This is why this ideology has its own importance in Jain philosophy. If this thought is well conceived, one becomes blessed. To an ordinary man this ideology is congenial because generally speaking, the relations of mother, father, son, daughter, husband, wife etc. of this birth do not come with us in its original form. They end here. But really speaking our soul has made such relations in every birth. But at the present time we do not remember those relations at all. Naturally, therefore, man regards these relations to be transient. But thinking very minutely one is convinced that it is not that these relations end only here. The relations of friendship as well as those of hostility continue in our next birth. We have before us illustrations that prove this. What is the relation between Bhagawan Mahavira's pet disciple Gautam Indrabhuti, the first Ganadhar and Bhagawan himself. Is the teacher-disciple relation confined to this birth only ? No, the relation and the guru-worship can be traced back to Bhagawan Adinath's dispensation, when Bhagawan Mahavira's soul lived as Bharat Chakravarti's son, Marichi. Marichi took initiation (Pravrajya) at the hands of Bhagawan Adinath. But shortly afterwards he found himself to be unable to live a monk's life and so he assumed the dress of a tridandi (a sannyasi) who holds the staff symbolizing the three controls of speech, mind and body. Then he gave sermons to those who came to listen to his sermons and then sent them to Bhagawan Adinath. Once after Bhagawan's Nirwan (death), a prince named Kapil went to him. He listened to his sermons and expressed his desire to take initiation. As usual Marichi sent him to Bhagwan's monks. Kapil, the prince, did not go to other monks and adopted tridandi's dress in the presence of Marichi. Afterwards, when Marichi's soul was born as Triprustha Vasudev, Kapil's soul was born as his charioteer. In course of time Marichi and Kapil became
