Jain philosophy is built around a simple but profound idea: nothing remains the same forever. Wealth rises and falls. Kingdoms grow and disappear. Success creates comfort, comfort creates complacency and complacency eventually leads to decline. Hardship creates resilience, resilience creates growth and growth again leads to prosperity. Everything moves in cycles.
Jainism describes this through the idea of Avasarpini and Utsarpini, the downward and upward movement of time. One age declines into Dushama, a difficult age, while another rises towards Sushama, an age of well-being. Like the wheel of a cart, history keeps turning. It moves forward towards the marketplace and then back again. No condition is permanent.
