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enjoying can never be successful. The example given here is very appropriate. One cannot stop a blazing fire by trying to extinguish it with butter.
TEXT 15
यदा न कुरुते भावं सर्वभूतेष्वमङ्गलम् । समदृष्टेस्तदा पुंसः सर्वाः सुखमया दिशः ॥१५॥
yadā na kurute bhāvam sarva-bhūteṣv amaṅgalam sama-dṛṣṭes tadā puṁsaḥ sarvāḥ sukhamayā diśaḥ
yadā —when;  na —not;  kurute —does;  bhāvam —a different attitude of attachment or envy;  sarva-bhūteṣu —to all living entities;  amaṅgalam —inauspicious;  sama-dṛṣṭeh —because of being equipoised;  tadā —at that time;  puṁsaḥ —of the person;  sarvāḥ —all;  sukhamayāḥ —in a happy condition;  diśaḥ —directions.
TRANSLATION
When a man is nonenvious and does not desire ill fortune for anyone, he is equipoised. For such a person, all directions appear happy.
PURPORT
Prabodhānanda Sarasvati said,  viśvaṁ pūrṇa-sukhāyate : when one becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious by the mercy of Lord Caitanya, for him the entire world appears happy, and he has nothing for which to hanker. On the  brahma-bhūta  stage, or the platform of spiritual realization, there is no lamentation and no material hankering ( na śocati na kāṅkṣati ). As long as one lives in the material world, actions and reactions will continue, but when one is unaffected by such material actions and reactions, he is to be considered free from the danger of being victimized by material desires. The symptoms of those who are satiated with lusty desires are described in this verse. As explained by Śrila Viśvanātha Cakravarti Thākura, when one is not envious even of his enemy, does