Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do. With unified consciousness, however, all anxiety is left behind. There is no cause for worry, whether things go well or ill.
When your mind has overcome the confusion of duality, you will attain the state of holy indifference to things you hear and things you have heard. When you are unmoved by the confusion of ideas and your mind is completely unified in deep samadhi, you will attain the state of perfect yoga.
(Lord Krishna, Bhagavad Gita)
It is hard to walk the spiritual path the Bhagavad Gita recommends. Actually, being stoic about the ups and downs of life brings is not even the hardest part. The toughest part is that it is so easy to confuse this divine state Lord Krishna describes with a forced lack of emotion and a repression of what really matters to you in the name of spirituality. Yet, it is possible to reach that unified consciousness the Gita refers to - a state of perfect harmony with the Way. When you see the seeds of decay in success, and the beginnings of a renaissance in failure, how hard is it to have an an even mind about things? When you at-one, it would never occur to you to question the perfection of the Way. The holy Now is beyond good and evil, success and failure. It is just perfect as is.
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