Kṛṣṇa describes the emotional neutrality of the devotee. He is someone who doesn’t get overly excited by success (‘na hṛṣyati’) nor does he hate failure. He doesn’t lament what is lost or crave what is missing. He has renounced the very categories of ‘good luck’ and ‘bad luck’ (‘śubhāśubha-parityāgī’), seeing everything as a manifestation of the Lord’s will. To a materialist, this might sound boring, but to a devotee, it is freedom. Most of our life energy is wasted on the roller coaster of ‘I got it!’ and ‘I lost it!’ By stopping these swings, the devotee saves all his energy for his relationship with Kṛṣṇa. He is ‘Bhaktimān’—his primary identity is his devotion, not his temporary circumstances. It teaches us to transcend the dualities of life. When a pleasant event occurs, we should be grateful but not attached. When an unpleasant event occurs, we should be patient but not depressed. By letting go of the need for the world to satisfy us, we become capable of a much deeper, more stable kind of joy that Kṛṣṇa personally treasures.