(Try to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, and then you'll not be disturbed with all these external, ephemeral changes of the material world) 
"That means, spiritual progress means, he's making progress towards eternal life. Spiritual life means eternal, blissful life of knowledge. That is spiritual life. So here is the recommendation. Try to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, and then you'll not be disturbed with all these external, ephemeral changes of the material world.
Not only of this body, practically . . . practically one who is advanced in spiritual life, he's not agitated by the so-called political upheavals or social disturbances. No. He knows these are simply external, ephe . . . just like in the dream. It is also a dream. The . . . our present existence, it is also dream, exactly like we dream at night. In dreaming, we create so many things.
So this material world is also a gross dreaming. Gross dreaming. That is subtle dreaming, and this is gross dreaming. That is the action of the mind, body, intelligence—dreaming. And here, the action of five material elements: earth, water, air, fire . . . but all of them, these eight, they are simply material. So we are thinking that, "I have now built a very nice house, skyscraper building."
It is nothing but dream. Nothing but dream. Dream in this sense, that as soon as I give up this body, all my skyscraper building, business, factory, finished. Exactly the same dream. Dream is for few minutes or few hours, and it is for few years. That's all. It is dream. So one should not be disturbed by this dreaming condition. That is spiritual life. One should not be disturbed."
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