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Pleasure and pain are due to our identifying ourselves with the body. When we practice Krishna Consciousness, we realize our true position in relation to God; under the guidance of Guru Sadhu and shastra we can observe happiness and distress and understand them. This way, we won’t be disturbed. Here are a few statements from Srila Prabhupada which can clarify this better.

So long you will have this material body, you will have to suffer. You cannot avoid it. Matra Sparshas tu Kaunteya [Bg. 2.14]. What is the suffering? Suffering means on account of this body. The same water, it is very pleasing during summer, and the same water, it is very distressing in winter. So water is the same, but it is distressing and pleasing on account of this body. Very simple thing, one can understand. Matra Sparshas tu Kaunteya [Bg. 2.14] The water is neither pleasing nor distressing. It is due to my this body and bodily concepts of life, we are suffering or enjoying, so-called enjoying, so-called suffering. Actually, I am the spirit soul. I am different from this body, gross body and subtle body. I have no suffering, no, I mean to say, enjoying. It is simply my imagination.

Because spirit is eternal and the Supreme Lord is eternal, therefore reciprocation of their loving exchanges, they are eternal. They are eternal. The living spirit is eternal, the Lord is eternal, and their exchange of feelings, or loving feelings, that is also eternal. So one who is intelligent, they should refrain from this sensual enjoyment of this material body which is flickering, which is not in essence, and should seek such enjoyment of spiritual life.

yasmin sthito na dukhena gurunapi vicalyate. If one is situated firmly in Krishna consciousness, the gravest type of danger cannot disturb him. It is such a nice thing. Yasmin sthito na dukhena gurunapi. Guru. Guru means very heavy, very heavy. Gurunapi dukhena na vicalyate [Bg. 6.20-23]. He is not disturbed.

Just like in a railway carriage. You are being transported from one place. Suppose it is crowded. So instead of adjusting the crowd, better tolerate for few hours and get down and go to your destination. Similarly, we may have many dangerous spots in this material life, but if we are preparing ourselves for going back to Krishna in Krishna consciousness, then these things will be not cared for. Let them happen. Agamapayino anityas tamas titikshasva bharata. They come and go. Let them happen.

But it is very difficult to adjust. But one who is situated in Krishna consciousness, he is not disturbed. He is not disturbed. That is the technique of not being disturbed. The more we advance in Krishna consciousness, we become free from this material entanglement.

If we are actually situated in Krishna consciousness, under the shelter of Krishna’s lotus feet, then gurunapi dukhena, very heaviest type of danger may be before me—I shall not be disturbed. Or anyone who has taken the shelter like that, he will never be disturbed. He will never be disturbed.