Thrown out of Hastinapura for speaking truth to Dhritarashtra, his pilgrimage questions draw out the third and fourth books.
Appears in
Vidura meets Uddhava by the Yamuna — Skandha 3, adhyayas 1-4 — Cast out by Duryodhana before the war, Vidura returns from pilgrimage to learn from weeping Uddhava that both clans and Krishna are gone.
Varaha leaps from Brahma's nostril and lifts the Earth — Skandha 3, adhyayas 13; 17 — When the newborn Earth sinks into the cosmic waters, a boar the size of a thumb springs from Brahma's nostril and dives to the bottom.
Embodies
Detachment — Kings who walk away from thrones, and one royal sage who renounces everything except a fawn and pays for it with two births.
Devotion as the highest dharma — The Bhagavatam's own thesis (1.2.6): the highest dharma is devotion with no motive, which nothing can interrupt.
Questions to explore
Why did Vidura leave Hastinapura before the Mahabharata war?
Why did Vidura ask Uddhava for news of Krishna on the bank of the Yamuna, and why did Uddhava send him to Maitreya?
Who was Vidura before he was born in the Kuru house?
