Volume 7 - Prabhupada

324 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 19within fire and ether. Living entities have different material bodies composed ofearth, water, air, fire and ether. The words tara madhye mean "within this universe."The entire material universe is composed of five material elements. It is nottrue that living entities reside only within this planet and not within others. Such aconclusion is completely contradictory to the Vedas. As stated in Bhagavad-gita(2.24):acchedyo 'yam adahyo 'yamakledyo '5o$ya eva canityal) sarva-gata/:1 sthaf)uracalo 'yam sanatanal)"This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nordried. He is everlasting, all-pervading, unchangeable, immovable and eternally thesame."The soul has nothing to do with the material elements. Any material elementcan be cut to pieces, especially earth. As far as the living entity is concerned,however, it can neither be burned nor cut to pieces. It can therefore live withinfire. We can conclude that there are also living entities within the sun. Whyshould living entities be denied this planet or that planet? According to the Vedas,the living entities can live anywhere and everywhere-on land, in water, in air andin fire. Whatever the condition, the living entity is unchangeable (sthaf)u). Fromthe statements of SrT Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Bhagavad-gita, we are to concludethat living entities are everywhere throughout the universes. They are distributedas trees, plants, aquatics, birds, human beings and so on.TEXT 145 'alt$0 ';fil1JJ·