The celestial beings inhabiting the heavenly, paradise-like planets that make up the upper region of the galaxy have bodies different from those of human beings.

The celestial beings are charged by Lord Krishna or Visnu with ensuring the interests and proper functioning of the material galaxy. This is true for all galaxies.

The celestial beings inhabiting the higher planets are endowed with eyes capable of seeing the celestial being, master of the Sun, through the dazzling luminosity that envelops his person.

Each planet has its own atmosphere, depending on the influence of material nature. Each planet has a particular atmosphere, and if one wishes to visit a given planet, it is necessary to adapt one's body to its specific climatic conditions. Therefore, to stay on one or the other of them, it is necessary to acquire the type of body suited to the one chosen. Perhaps the inhabitants of Earth can reach the Moon, but celestial beings can travel to the fiery sphere of the Sun. What is impossible for humans becomes easy for the celestial beings of the higher planets, because their bodies are different.

Thus, one must completely change bodies to travel to the transcendental planets of the spiritual world.

However, celestial beings, because they have an ethereal body different from that of human beings on Earth, do not die like humans. Also, the celestial beings who live on Satyaloka, the highest planet in our galaxy, that of Brahma, the first created being, the demiurge and ruler of our galaxy, reach the spiritual world and thus go directly to a spiritual planet at the time of cosmic annihilation, without changing their bodies.

However, those who aim for the higher, material, Edenic, and heavenly planets can retain their ethereal body, but they must leave their fleshly envelope of dense matter, made of earth, water, fire, air, and ether.

The celestial beings living on the higher planets and the beings dwelling on the lower planets are therefore identical in nature. Human beings are nevertheless sometimes attracted to the worship of the celestial beings of the higher planets, but this worship is fleeting.

Just as human beings on planet Earth must change bodies when the time comes to reincarnate, celestial beings endowed with power, such as Indra, Candra, and Varuna, must also change their bodies one day.

Of course, human beings have free will, and therefore, if they do not wish to be freed from the material universe, they can occupy the position of Brahma and visit the Siddhalokas, the planets where materially perfect beings live, who have all the powers to control gravity, space, and time.

There is no need to abandon one's ethereal body (composed of the mind, intelligence, and false ego); one must simply discard one's material body, made of dense matter.