The Lord is also good to all beings, for He always treats them as a friend, regardless of their body. The individual soul is present only in one specific body, and conscious of this one body, while the Supreme Soul is present in all bodies and conscious of each one. He who is conscious of God has knowledge which enables him to realize the extent of these truths. As a true scholar, he sees all beings with a balanced eye.
One whose mind is always constant has already overcome birth and death. Without flaw, like the Supreme Lord, He has already established His dwelling in Him.
Equanimity is a sign of spiritual realization, and those who acquire it triumph over the conditions of matter (especially birth and death). As long as man identifies with his body, he must undergo its conditioning. But as soon as he develops equanimity, this equality of soul arising from the realization of his spiritual identity, he frees himself from enslavement to matter, and so can at the moment of death enter the world at once Spiritual, without ever having to be reborn in the material universe.
The Lord is not subject to attraction or disgust, he is without weakness. Similarly, the distinct being, when it frees itself from the duality of attraction-repulsion, also becomes without weakness, thus qualifying to enter the spiritual world. It must be seen as already released.
Who does not rejoice in joys, nor grieve in sorrows, whose intelligence is fixed upon the soul, who does not know the error and possesses the knowledge of God, has already transcended matter.
What are the characteristic traits of the being who realized his spiritual identity?
He got rid of the illusion that he and his body are one. He knows perfectly well that he is not a product of matter, but rather a fragment of God, the Supreme Person. There is no reason for him to rejoice when he receives some material benefit, or to lament the loss of that which is connected with his body. This equality of spirit takes the name of the intelligence fixed on the soul. Through it, the realized being does not in any way commit the troubling error of identifying with his carnal envelope, which he knows also ephemeral, in no case does he forget the existence of the soul. This knowledge finally raises it until the perfect knowledge of the science of the Absolute Truth. He also knows his own nature and therefore does not seek in vain to identify himself completely with the Absolute. This unshakable consciousness is none other than the spiritual realization, the realization of the Supreme Lord, or Krsna consciousness.