Your own mind can be your worst enemy. Envy makes poverty in spite of
possessing wealth, and causes misery out of what really is cause for joy. No thief is
required to rob you of your wealth; envy does the work by making your wealth of no avail
to you for joy. The Goddess of good luck is impatient with men who cannot bear the sight
of other people's good fortune; She immediately entrusts such men to the charge of her
elder sister.
In the folk mythology of India, which in its own way embodies Vedanta,
the elder sister of the Goddess of Fortune is Misfortune. Misfortune is the responsibility
of the senior goddess, while the younger is in charge of good luck and well-being, The two
are sisters, and therein we can see the philosophy of Vedanta which looks on pain and
pleasure with indifference.
