So this is the internal thought process and based on this thought process what happens the external expression comes out

BG 2.57

yah sarvatranabhisnehas

tat tat prapya subhasubham

nabhinandati na dveshti

tasya prajna pratishthita

SYNONYMS

yah — one who; sarvatra — everywhere; anabhisnehah — without affection; tat — that; tat — that; prapya — achieving; subha — good; asubham — evil; na — never; abhinandati — praises; na — never; dveshti — envies; tasya — his; prajna — perfect knowledge; pratishthita — fixed.

TRANSLATION

In the material world, one who is unaffected by whatever good or evil he may obtain, neither praising it nor despising it, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge.

Yah sarvatranabhisnehas, so whatever one gets in this world sarvatra, tat tat prapya subhasubham, sometimes we will get good, sometimes bad, sometimes auspicious, sometimes inauspicious. Nabhinandati na dveshti, such a person doesn’t praise when good comes, doesn’t resent when bad comes. Such a person is prajna pratishthita. Earlier, sthitha prajna and now prajna pratishthita, the same point is talked about. So in this world, good and bad will always keep coming. How can we artificially keep saying, ‘this is not good, this is not bad’? Is it that the devotees have to become blind, that whatever is happening doesn’t matter? Is it that if a person is given anesthesia, the person doesn’t feel at all? So even if the person is cut or massaged, the person doesn’t feel anything? Is it that the devotees have to desensitize themselves to everything material, so that they don’t feel anything good or bad? No, it is not like that. Devotees don’t desensitize themselves to the material; they focus on sensitizing themselves to the spiritual. And when their vision is focused on the spiritual, the material is perceived, but it doesn’t dominate their perception. When Prabhupada would preach, he would be concerned about how many people are coming for the program, but his focus was not on the quantity. Whether he was talking to one person in a room or addressing 10,000 people in a public program, Srila Prabhupada would be enthusiastic to speak about Krishna always. At the same time, he also wanted the results to come out, so he was also concerned about how things were emerging. However, devotees are not primarily focused on that. Whether good or bad comes, a devotee is always fixed that their service to Krishna will continue. Srila Prabhupada has explained in the purport that there is always some upheaval in the material world, which may be good or evil. One who is not agitated by such material upheavals, who is unaffected by good and evil, is to be understood to be fixed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

So generally, we use the word ‘upheaval’ in a negative term. Upheavals mean some agitation, some disruption. So why does Srila Prabhupada say that upheavals may be good also? How can we have good upheavals? The point is that anything which distracts us from our focus in life, that is an upheaval. Often, when we gain successes, at that time, we let our guard down, and when we let our guard down, maya can attack us. So even pleasure can be an upheaval if it makes us lose our focus. For example, when the Kauravas thought they had won and let their guard down, it was an opportunity for Arjuna to kill Jayadratha. So even pleasure can become an upheaval if it distracts us. Srila Prabhupada said that one should not be disturbed by pleasure or pain. In his purport, he mentioned that one who is fixed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is not affected by good and evil because he is simply concerned with Kṛṣṇa, who is all-good absolute.

So devotees understand that whatever Krishna is doing is for their ultimate good. They don’t get disturbed by the ups and downs of the world.