Envy is the disease that brought us into the material world and it is the root cause of our existence in material life. And purification from material existence means to purify ourselves from these envious tendencies and the ultimate object of our envy is Krishna. So into order to become free from envy we simply have to reverse the process, which simply means that we serve. Envy means that we want to take the position of one who is in the superior position. That is the mentality of envy. So envy in relationship to Krishna means that we try to become like God. So the only way we can become freed from this envy is to serve.
1992, September, Riga