No Concern For Gain Or Loss - Prabhupada 0992
680510b - Lecture at Boston College - Boston
So this misconception of bodily identity, when it is removed, then you are situated in the platform of spiritual understanding and as soon as you are on the spiritual platform there is symptom commonly:
- brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā
- na śocati na kāṅkṣati
- (BG 18.54)
(And of all yogīs, he who always abides in Me with great faith, worshiping Me in transcendental loving service, is most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all.)
As far as you are standing on the spiritual platform you will be free from all anxieties; immediately. Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati, and the two symptoms of our material existence, namely—lamenting for loss and to become joyful for some so-called temporary gains, these are the symptom of this present life. So as soon as you are on the spiritual platform: brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā, you will be joyful and you will have no concern for any gain or loss in this material world. This is the symptom of self-realization.