When heavenly residents have subtle bodies dont all bodies contain all elements?
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So, when I said that beings in heavens don’t have bodies that are visible because their bodies are subtle. So, isn’t it that all the elements all of them are present in all bodies? Not necessary. Bhagavatam says that Brahma has a body made of intelligence.
Now, how what exactly is intelligence and how will it form foreheads, how will it form mouths? This is something which we are not able to conceive. But the point is that even if we see there are gross elements it’s not necessary that all the gross elements have to be everywhere in exactly the same form that we see. It’s like water can exist.
Water here is visible. But if water exists here, it’s not visible. It’s in water only.
So, like that even the elements can comprise bodies and even if they are present in forms where they will not be visible. So, for example there is a mystic siddhi by which some people at least some reference, it’s not very common that people can become invisible. So, even people who have earthly bodies can sometimes become invisible.
So, in the Mahabharata it’s described that, you know, or even especially in the Ramayana, Indrajit when he was attacking the Pandavas, Ram and Lakshman you know, he at one point became just invisible and he was just shooting arrows from above. And when Lakshman they had a final fight, Lakshman said Indrajit boasted him. No, I defeated you twice I’m going to kill you now also.
So, Lakshman said, you know, only cowards need to be invisible to fight with their opponents. So, he says none of your enemies are going to come. So, the point is that Indrajit at that time Lakshman was able to see Indrajit.
But earlier Indrajit had used some mystic powers and he had made himself invisible. So, now how does invisibility happen? We may not know the specific mechanisms but we can understand the principle. See, this universe is like a it’s not a product which has come about by chance.
Ultimately, you live in governance. So, suppose you have a computer. In a computer, you may have different levels of access.
There may be an administrator who has access to all the files. There may be a user who has access to only a particular drive in the computer. Now, if that user is using the computer, at that time it is as if the other drives don’t exist with you.
Although those drives are there and the data is there but the access is not given to that user only. And that’s why the user is able to see only a particular set of things. So, like that, we have been given certain senses by which we are able to perceive only certain things.
Whatever is appropriate, whatever is necessary for our functioning. And we don’t have the access to perceive other things in the universe. And that is why there are things in the universe that means there may be bodies even made of certain gross forms, which we may not be able to perceive.
And let’s say, Indrajeet appeases some devata and by that he gets some mystic power while she can make him invisible. That means, he places his body in another level of reality to which the normal human senses don’t have access. So, there are two possibilities here.
One is that the body could entirely be made of certain elements. The other is the body is made of gross elements but they are arranged in such a way that our senses no longer have access to perceive them. Does that answer your question?