If we want to check to see what is the symptom that we are becoming free from envy, we can do so by checking how much our taste for hearing the glories of Krishna is manifesting in our heart. Conversely, if we want to see how much it has not gone away, we will see it by how much the tendency to speak about ourselves and about the topics of material world is present.
2009-05-24, Kiev, SB 4.3.8 (Vyasa puja journal, Jan 2010, pg 29)