Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.18.33

alabdhvā na viṣīdeta

kāle kāle 'śanaḿ kvacit

labdhvā na hṛṣyed dhṛtimān

ubhayaḿ daiva-tantritam

SYNONYMS

alabdhvā — not obtaining; na — not; viṣīdeta — he should be depressed; kāle kāle — at different times; aśanam — food; kvacit — whatever; labdhvā — obtaining; na — not; hṛṣyet — should rejoice; dhṛti-mān — fixed in determination; ubhayam — both (obtaining and not obtaining good food); daiva — of the supreme power of God; tantritam — under the control.

TRANSLATION

If at times one does not obtain proper food one should not be depressed, and when one obtains sumptuous food one should not rejoice. Being fixed in determination, one should understand both situations to be under the control of God.

PURPORT

Because we desire to enjoy the material body, the varieties of material experience bring us flickering happiness and inevitable suffering. We foolishly consider ourselves to be controllers and doers, and thus through false egotism we are subjected to the volatile feelings of the material body and mind.

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