So real sanity is to understand that this body belongs to Krsna. We are misunderstanding that this body belongs to my father, mother, or my master or to the cats and dogs or the vultures, in so many ways. That is material. Materially, we can understand that. But spiritually, this body belongs to Krsna because the body is made of, I mean to say, prepared by the eight elements. We have got the five elements, bhumir apo 'nalo vayuh. There is earth, water, air, fire, and the mind and the intelligence and the false ego. This is the eight combination of the matter. Then, the matter being agitated, there are ten senses and then sense objects. In this way this body is composition of twenty-four elements. But all these elements, Krsna says, bhinna me prakrtir astadha: "That is My energy." This body is made by Krsna's property. Earth, water, air, fire -- this is all Krsna's property. You cannot create earth, or you cannot create water. You cannot create sky, nothing of the material elements. It is created by Krsna, and this body is..., this external body is made of these eight elements.
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
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