(Bhagavatham 5.12.1 – 5.12.16)

Rahoogana tells Jada Bharatha, “I prostrate before you, oh great Brahmana! Your advice is like medicine to the sick one and like cold water to the one tired in the Sun. You have given me the Amrit to save me from the snake bite of arrogance in kingship. Still I have no clarity, so please tell me how to transcend the ‘Maya’ of this visibly true world and its karma”.

Jada Bharatha continues to clear Rahoogana’s doubts:

“You must understand that your body is another form of this earth itself. It moves here and there because of some reason. It is a ‘Jadam’ just like a stone. It is foolish to think that the body has efforts of its own.

The man who carries the ‘dholi’ is earth, the ‘dholi’ is earth and the man who sits in the ‘dholi’ as king is also earth. Then why be proud?

When you are not merciful to the tired workers who carry you on their shoulders, why you call yourself as their protector? You have no place among wise men.

Now, do not think Earth is your source, because earth is a collection of minute particles called ‘paramanu’. Don’t think they are here forever, as they will also dissolve in nature eventually.