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ship the sun-god by chanting the Gayatri mantra (om bhir bhuvah svah
tat savitur varenyamn bhargo devasya dhimahi). Sarya is the life and soul
of this universe, and there are innumerable universes for which a sun-
god is the life and soul, just as the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the
life and soul of the entire creation. We have information that Vairaja,
Hiranyagarbha, entered the great, dull, material globe called the sun.
This indicates that the theory held by so-called scientists that no one lives
there is wrong. Bhagavad-gitd also says that Krsna first instructed
Bhagavad-gita to the sun-god (imarh vivasvate yogam proktavin aham
avyayam). Therefore the sun is not vacant. It is inhabited by living en-
tities, and the predominating deity is Vairaja, or Vivasvan. The
difference between the sun and earth is that the sun is a fiery planet, but
everyone there has a suitable body and can live there without difficulty.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Fifth Canto, Twentieth
Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled, “Studying the Structure of
the Universe.”
