Results of Envy

Lord Indra becomes envious of the horse sacrifices performed by Prthu Maharaj as Prthu Maharaj was performing his 100th horse sacrifice and would get the same fame as him for performing 100 horse sacrifices.

Reacting on the platform of envy Lord Indra then performs various activities to disrupt the 100th sacrifice.

Envy is the inability to tolerate another person's success:

1. Essence of the material experience.
2. Essence of all bad qualities that our present in our heart.

Envy causes the jiva to perform various activities in a bid to stop someone's success.Depending on the level of material contamination it will manifest either as thoughts or thoughts and words or thoughts, words and actions.

Following is a synopsis of the ill effects of envy based on the example of Lord Indra's attempts to stop the 100th sacrifice. SB 4.19

Envy:

1. Leads to Pain :Pain that someones possess something we lack
2. Leads to Fear:Someone may possess something more than what we have and surpass us.Lord Indra feared that Prthu Maharaj's piety would exceed his own and thus he felt threatened
3. Bewilderment of intelligence(vinash kale viprit buddhi) :One performs actions against injunctions of Guru and Shastra. e.g Indra stole the horse, decieved everyone as a sanyasi, ran from the battlefield out of cowardice
4. Repeatedly perform the same mistakes: To relieve his envy Lord Indra repeatedly kept stealing the horse
5. Deepening of bad qualities: Owing to his envy Lord Indra's bad qualities started magnifying
6. Perform irreligious acts: Lord Indra started different pseudo sanyasa orders. Out of envy we may hurt someone through our words, we may criticise them openly, degrade their reputation, one may also kill or one may start parallel lines of authority.
7. Purity reduces: One's purity and potency to perform devotional service reduces.Lord Indra's powers and credibility both reduced.
8. Reflects badly on Krishna: An envious devotee's activities reflect badly on our dearmost Lord Sri Krsna.