Real beauty: To have good personal qualities, such as detachment

Real beauty: To have good personal qualities, such as detachment

Real rich person: One who is enriched with good qualities

Real poor person: One who is unsatisfied

Real happiness: Transcending material happiness & distress

Real distress: Being implicated by material desires

The real wise person: One who knows the process of freedom material illusory bewilderment.

The real fool: One who misidentifies the body as the self.

Best road: That which leads to Krishna.

Worst road: That which leads the consciousness to material gratification

Real heaven: The predominance of sattva

Real hell: The predominance of tamas

Real friend: Krishna, who acts as guru of all in the universe

Real home: The human body

Real opulence: Krishna’s personal divine nature

Real gain: Krishna’s devotional service

Real education: That which nullifies dualistic concepts of the self

Real modesty: To be disgusted with bad activities.

Real miser: One who cannot control their senses

Real boss: One who is unattached to material gratification

Real slave: One who is attached to material gratification

“There is no need for a more elaborate description of these good and bad qualities, since to constantly see good and bad is itself a bad quality. The best quality is to transcend material good and evil.”

– Krishna speaking to Uddhava. –

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.19.40-45