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within fire and ether. Living entities have different material bodies composed of earth, water, air, fire and ether. The words  tāra madhye  mean “within this universe.” The entire material universe is composed of five material elements. It is not true that living entities reside only within this planet and not within others. Such a conclusion is completely contradictory to the  Vedas . As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā  (2.24):
acchedyo ‘yam adāhyo ‘yam akledyo ‘śoṣya eva ca nityaḥ sarva-gataḥ sthāṇur acalo ‘yaṁ ṣaṇātaṇah
“This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, all-pervading, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same.”
The soul has nothing to do with the material elements. Any material element can 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 within fire. We can conclude that there are also living entities within the sun. Why should 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 and in fire. Whatever the condition, the living entity is unchangeable ( sthāṇu ). From the statements of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and  Bhagavad-gītā , we are to conclude that living entities are everywhere throughout the universes. They are distributed as trees, plants, aquatics, birds, human beings and so on.
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তার মধ্যে মসূয়া-জাতি অতি অন্নতর ।।
তার মধ্যে  শ্লেচ্ছ ,  পুলিস্ক ,  বৌদ্ধ ,  শবর  ॥ ১৪৫ ॥
tāra madhye manuṣya-jāti ati alpatara 
 tāra madhye mleccha, pulinda, bauddha, śabara
SYNONYMS
tāra madhye —among all such living entities;  manuṣya-jāti —entities born as human beings;  ati —very;  alpatara —small in quantity;  tāra madhye —among the small quantity of human beings;  mleccha —uncivilized men who cannot follow the Vedic principles;  pulinda —unregulated;  bauddha —followers of Buddhist philosophy;  śabara —the lowest of men (the hunter class).