Learn from these facets of Nature; though trampled on by all, be firm in your adversity like the earth itself ; from these mountains which hold their mineral and other resources for the welfare of the world, learn that you must live for others and not for yourself; like the wind, you must be able to pass through unhindered; all pervasive, touching everything; yet itself untouched; the sky is verily the shining paradigm of the Yogin; you must be limpid, pure, purifying, pleasing and refreshing like water; effulgent with the luster of wisdom like the fire that reduces to ashes all impurity; like the python, lie still and take only what comes to you, and when nothing comes, fast as the python does; like the sea, deep and unfathomable, neither be swollen by what flows into you nor depleted by what is withdrawn from you; like the bee, take in little by little, and from the good and bad alike, extract the essence even as the bee gathers honey.
— Bhagavata Purana