Another text in the Srimad Bhagavatam says that happiness is the province of both the fool and the transcendentalist. Text four, chapter nine in the Eleventh Canto reads, “In this world two types of people are free from all anxiety and merged in great happiness: one who is a retarded and childish fool and one who has approached the Supreme Lord, who is beyond the three modes of material nature.” This echoes a previous verse which says: “Both the lowest of fools and he who is transcendental to all intelligence enjoy happiness, whereas persons between them suffer the material pangs.” (3.7.17)