These five elements are in all existent things. The Creator of all things, however, has made an unequal distribution of those elements for serving different ends.
महाभूतानि पञ्चैव सर्वभूतेषु भूतकृत्। अकरोत् तात वैषम्यं यस्मिन् यदनुपश्यति॥