The Earth as Guru

The eleventh canto, seventh chapter, thirty-seventh verse of Srimad Bhagavatam reads: “A sober person, even when harassed by other living beings, should understand that his aggressors are acting helplessly under the control of God, and thus he should never be distracted from progress on his own path. This rule I have learned from the earth.” (This was said by the avadhuta brahmana to Maharaja Yadu as related in the “Uddhava Gita.”