The images of prosperous people that make us burn with envy are just our mind’s illusions Gita 17 16

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Hare Krishna the image of prosperous people that makes us burn with envy is often just our mind’s illusion suppose we are walking on a road and we see somebody driving in a very expensive car say a Mercedes and we start thinking if they are driving a Rolls Royce or whatever and then we say this person is so wealthy and we may feel envious of that person thinking why is this person so wealthy why am I not wealthy enough what have I done wrong I have also worked hard in my life I also have talent so much negativity and envy can burn within us but actually that envy is often arising from an illusion because what is that illusion that we think that that person is happy but that person may be driving in that expensive car and they may be thinking that when is the next cliff going to come and I am going to ride off this cliff and I am going to end my miserable life the the strappings of prosperity are no guarantors of happiness and every one of us is an individual and every one of us has problems and every one of us has has opportunities we all have certain things which will make us happy certain things which will make us unhappy certain things which will make us miserable so actually if we want to be happy it is not by increasing the possessions that we have but it is by increasing the purification of our mind so that we start looking at what we have and appreciating it and not looking at the things that we don’t have and craving for it and feeling dissatisfied so our mind often over values the things we don’t have and under values the things that we do have and as long as this habit is there for the mind we can never be happy no matter how many things that we have that’s why we need to cultivate satisfaction as a discipline of the mind the Bhagavad Gita 1716 while talking about disciplines of the mind states that means this is our mind needs to be disciplined so that it thinks in a particular way what is that way? that it learns to see cultivate satisfaction look at the things that we have every one of us are in such a distinct situations that looking at other situations is rarely very helpful it simply is not a valid comparison because the things in their life and things in our life are so different so rather than comparing and craving we can we can be appreciating what we have and on that platform we can try to improve according to our capacity and the most important thing that we need to improve is our own mind’s habit so rather than letting the mind’s illusion makes us burn in dissatisfaction we burn the mind’s illusion through spiritual knowledge through the knowledge of the nature of reality and thus protect ourselves from burning in envy thank you