The jealous are expert at two things, counting others blessings and discounting their own blessings. Jealousy is such a peculiar vice that when we are jealous of someone, our vision gets locked on the things that they have. And we very carefully start counting every good thing that happens to them. We start noticing even the good things that they themselves may not have noticed. So, we become expert at counting their blessings. And even if they themselves tell us about some things that are good in our life, we discount them. We feel that those are worthless. Thus jealousy becomes the recipe for unhappiness. That is why the Bhagavad-gītā states that the wise people, the people of divine nature stay away from jealousy.

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14.23 He … who is unwavering and undisturbed through all these reactions of the material qualities, remaining neutral and transcendental, knowing that the modes alone are active; who is situated in the self and regards alike happiness and distress … [– such a person is said to have transcended the modes of nature].