Prabhupada: The Vaikuntha consciousness is that if your neighbor, if your brother is prosperous or progressive, then one should think, "Oh, he's so nice that he has served God so nicely. God is so pleased upon him that he is making so nice progress." That is Vaikuntha consciousness. And material consciousness is that "Oh, he has advanced so much. Oh, let me check him." This is material. That is going on. The whole world, enviousness.
I remember, long ago, about sometimes in 1936, my eldest son in Bombay -- he was in school -- he stood first. So his class friends became envious, that "Here is a boy, he is coming from Bengal, and he has stood first." They wanted to fight with him. My son came and complained to me that "This is the position." Just see. Children even, envious. That means this is the nature of this world. If you prosper, then your brothers and your neighbors, your friends, will be envious. So this bhagavata-dharma is not for such envious persons.
>>> Ref: Lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.1.2 – July 7, 1972, London
