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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 23]
tion of the spiritual world and the Vaikuṇṭhas, there is a 99.9 percent chance of his falling down again into material existence. There is, however, a small chance of being promoted to a spiritual planet from the Brahman effulgence, or the  brahmajyoti . This  brahmajyoti  is considered by impersonalists to be without variety, and the Buddhists consider it to be void. In either case, whether one accepts the spiritual sky as being without variety or void, there is none of the spiritual bliss which is enjoyed in the spiritual planets, Vaikuṇṭhas or Kṛṣṇaloka. In the absence of varieties of enjoyment, the spirit soul gradually feels an attraction to enjoy a life of bliss, and not having any information of Kṛṣṇaloka or Vaikuṇṭhaloka, he naturally falls down to material activities in order to enjoy material varieties.
TEXT 16
खान्याक्राशे द्रवं तोये यथास्थानं विभागशः । क्षितिमम्भसि तत्तेजस्यदो वायौ नभस्यमुम् ॥१६॥
khāny ākāśe dravam toye yathā-sthānam vibhāgaśaḥ kṣitim ambhasi tat tejasy ado vāyau nabhasy amum
khāni —the different holes in the body for the sense organs;  ākāśe —in the sky;  dravam —the liquid substance;  toye —in the water;  yathā-sthānam —according to proper situation;  vibhāgaśaḥ —as they are divided;  kṣitim —earth;  ambhasi —in the water;  tat —that;  tejasi —in the fire;  adaḥ —the fire;  vāyau —in the air;  nabhasi —in the sky;  amum —that.
TRANSLATION
In this way, according to the different positions of the various parts of the body, Pṛthu Mahārāja merged his bodily air with the air of the sky, his bodily liquids, such as blood and various secretions, with the totality of water, and he merged earth with water, then water with fire, fire with air, air with sky, and so on.
PURPORT
In this verse two words are very important:  yathā-sthānam vibhāgaśaḥ . In  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , Second Canto, Chapter Five, Lord Brahmā clearly explained to Nārada how the creation took place, and he explained one step after another the proper divisions of the senses, the controller of the senses, the objects of the senses, and the material elements, and he also