How to See Happiness and Distress Equally

Here is Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 5, Text 20:

na prahṛṣyet priyaṁ prāpya
nodvijet prāpya cāpriyam
sthira-buddhir asammūḍho
brahma-vid brahmaṇi sthitaḥ

The synonyms are as follows:
na—never; prahṛṣyet—rejoices; priyam—the pleasant; prāpya—achieving; na—does not; udvijet—become agitated; prāpya—obtaining; ca—also; apriyam—the unpleasant; sthira-buddhiḥ—self-intelligent; asammūḍhaḥ—unbewildered; brahma—vit—one who knows the Supreme perfectly; brahmaṇi—in the transcendence; sthitaḥ—situated.

Here is the translation:
"A person who neither rejoices upon achieving something pleasant nor laments upon obtaining something unpleasant, who is self-intelligent, who is unbewildered, and who knows the science of God, is already situated in transcendence."

And here is Srila Prabhupada's wonderful purport:
"The symptoms of the self-realized person are given herein. The first symptom is that he is not illusioned by the false identification of the body with his true self. He knows perfectly well that he is not this body, but is the fragmental portion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is therefore not joyful in achieving something, nor does he lament in losing anything which is related to his body. This steadiness of mind is called sthira-buddhi, or self-intelligence. He is therefore never bewildered by mistaking the gross body for the soul, nor does he accept the body as permanent and disregard the existence of the soul. This knowledge elevates him to the station of knowing the complete science of the Absolute Truth, namely Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. He thus knows his constitutional position perfectly well, without falsely trying to become one with the Supreme in all respects. This is called Brahman realization, or self-realization. Such steady consciousness is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness."

Srila Prabhupada has so kindly blessed us with this most sublime knowledge. Krishna is teaching us not to be carried away by material happiness or material distress. In other words we should not be giddy when things are going nicely or depressed from we face difficult situations. Instead by using our intelligence we should remain equipoised in all situations seeing things as they are by seeing each and every situation we find ourselves in to be the unlimited mercy of our most beloved Lord Sri Krishna upon us.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Krishna Bestows Unlimited Mercy at Every Minute

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: Anger and Spirituality?

Does spirituality and anger have any connection?\

Jayantilal Patel

Answer: Anger is Conquered

On the spiritual plane one fully conquers over anger. He or she is never overcome by anger.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

The Most Urgent World Deliverance Mission

ISKCON Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, ordered his disciples to become gurus and deliver the world. Sankarshan Das Adhikari has taken this order very seriously and is thus accepting disciples all over the world and has dedicated himself fully to the mission of making the entire world Krishna conscious as soon as possible. He requests your help in this most urgent world deliverance mission to save the suffering humanity from gliding down to the animal kingdom in their next births.

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