Imagine a canvas suspended like a carpet but above ground so it can be stretched downwards, this canvas is God's canvas, the universe. Now put some light objects around the canvas & put one very heavy object somewhere on the canvas. The heavy object would create a depression causing everything to slide towards it. If one tiny person was on the canvas he would try running away from the heavy object but he couldn't run up the steep slope & he would be trapped. That is how heavy bodies trap light bodies, the orbits are basically the person spinning around because he runs a little sideways, & would slip a bit horizontally & would move in circles around the object ( orbit), all the objects on the canvas would depress it slightly but the light objects would not depress it much.
CONCLUSION- Mass is the weight a body exerts on the universe, which depresses the universe a little & thus other objects tend to slide to that object (Gravitation) !!!
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