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Karanodakasayi-Visnu (Maha-Visnu) is an expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa and creates the mysterious temporary material world (lifeless matter), including all material bodily vessels that the visiting individual jiva-souls are housed in as a passenger. 

Maha-Visnu creates the temporary material world with His dreaming, He reposes in yoga-nidrā (mystic sleep) upon the spiritual Causal Ocean (Mahat-tattva), and innumerable universes are generated from the pores of His body as He breathes.

The temporary material existence is structured like a dream where the individual jiva-souls erroneously identifies with the temporary gross and subtle bodies (mind, intelligence, and false ego) they are housed in as a passenger.

The eternal, unchanging ever fresh reality is only in the spiritual world (the Vaikuṇṭha planets and Goloka Vṛndāvana), while the temporary material decaying manifestation is ultimately withdrawn from when the individual jiva-soul's dream-state concludes, and they awaken to their natural original position of devotional service (Krsna consciousness).

Srila Prabhupada – "This material creation is the spirit soul's dream. Actually all existence in the material world is a dream of Maha-Visnu, as the Brahma-Samhita describes – "This material world is created by the dreaming of Maha-Visnu. The real, factual platform is the spiritual world, but when the spirit soul wants to imitate the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is put into this dreamland of material creation." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 29 text 83).

Srila Prabhupada - "Everything happening within time, which consists of past, present and future, is merely a dream. This is the secret in understanding all the Vedic literature." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 29 text 2b).

Srila Prabhupada - "Our contact with matter is just like dream, actually we are not fallen therefore, because we are not fallen, at any moment we can revive our Krsna consciousness, we break the dream. Similarly, we can break this situation." (Tokyo Japan June 1972, SB, Canto 2 Ch 9 text 1).

Srila Prabhupada is explaining above that the individual jiva-soul's engagement with the material world is akin to a dream state. In a dream, a person may experience intense fear, joy, or distress, yet upon waking up, they realize those events had no true substance or permanent effect on their real identity.

The living entity (individual jiva-soul) is eternally a spiritual personality and pure. Because the individual jiva-soul never fundamentally changes its spiritual constitution, it is technically "not fallen" from its eternal position.

Because the condition is an illusion rather than a permanent structural change, the individual jiva-soul can break the dream at any moment by turning its consciousness back toward Krsna through devotional service, hearing, and chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Srila Prabhupada - "In the material world when one dream is finished, we come to another dream: "Oh, this is my house, this is my family, this is my bank balance." This is going on, dreaming one dream at night, and another dream during daytime. But who is dreaming? The individual jiva-soul's real business is different, not dreaming the daytime and night-time dream in the material world. To achieve this, one has to come to the platform of Krsna consciousness. If one takes to Krsna consciousness, then that is actual life. Otherwise one is in the dreamland of material existence that is real to the individual jiva-souls but temporary." (Lecture Bombay, Dec 27, 1972).

Srila Prabhupada - "There is no occasion when we were ever separated from Krsna. For example, when one is dreaming, they forget themselves. In the dream one creates themselves in different forms—"Now I am the king." This creation of oneself is as two things – 1) as the seer, and 2) as the subject matter, or seen. As soon as the dream is over, the "seen" disappears, but the seer remains; now he is in his original, awake position. 

Our separation from Krsna is like that, we dream this material bodily vessel and so many relationships with other things. First the attachment comes to enjoy sense gratification due to free-will. This means even when we are with Krsna, the desire for selfish sense gratification can be there if we choose. This means there is always the possibility of forgetting Krsna and instead creating an atmosphere for our own enjoyment independent from Krsna that transfers us to the temporary material world.

At the edge of the beach, sometimes water covers the sand, and sometimes there is dry sand; the ocean is coming and going. Our position is like that, sometimes we are covered (restricted by being housed as a passenger in a material bodily vessel in the material world), or sometimes free (in our original spiritual bodily position and home in the spiritual world, free from any external material bodily container or covering only obtained in the material world), just like at the edge of the tide. As soon as we forget Krsna, immediately illusion is there; just as when we sleep, the dream is there. 

We cannot say, therefore, that we are not with Krsna. As soon as we try to become the Lord, immediately we’re covered by maya (a material bodily vessel in the material world). Formerly we were with Krishna in His lila, or sport. But this covering of maya may be of very, very, very, very long duration; therefore many material creations are coming and going. Due to this long period of time it is sometimes said that we are ever conditioned. But this long duration of time becomes very insignificant when one actually comes to Krsna consciousness.

In a dream we may think that a very long time is passing, but as soon as we awaken we look at our watch and see it has been only a moment. Another example is how Krsna’s friends were kept asleep for one year by Brahma, but when they woke up and Krsna returned, they considered that only a moment had passed. This "dreaming" condition is called non-liberated life. It is just like a dream. 

Although by material calculation it is a long, long, long period, as soon as we come to Krsna consciousness this period is considered a second. Because one falls down from Brahma-sayujya they previously  entered ( meaning mukti (liberation) where the individual jiva-soul after becoming frustrated with material existence merges inactively [dormantly] artificially as an individual unit [spark] in the impersonal brahmajyoti, which is Kṛṣṇa's Bodily effulgence). 

The individual jiva-soul may think that impersonal brahmajyoti is their original position because they have been dormant there for so long, but they do not remember that long, long, long before that, they were with Krsna in the spiritual world (Goloka-Vrindavana and the Vaikuntha planets).

So the conclusion is that whatever may be our past, let us come to Krsna consciousness and immediately join Krsna in the spiritual world, it is a waste of time for a diseased person to try to find out how or why they fell down into the material world in the first place; better they spend their time curing the material disease and getting out of the material world and go back home, back to Godhead, back to the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the Kingdom of God." (Based on a letter to devotees in Australia June 1972).

Only a small percentage of individual jiva-souls (less than 10%) leave the perpetual spiritual world and enter the temporary material world, where they enter a material bodily vessel and experience the repeated cycle of birth and death of that material bodily container.

The individual life force (living units of anti-matter) who enters the material world from the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the spiritual world), are known as individual jiva-souls who become housed in a material bodily vessel (decaying matter) provided by Krsna's expansion Maha-Visnu (hired from Him) so they can pursue their desires in the material world without Kṛṣṇa or Visnu.

As said above, Maha-Visnu is an expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa and creates the mysterious temporary material world (lifeless matter), including all material bodily vessels that the visiting individual jiva-souls are housed in as the passenger. 

The Spiritual Sky means all that there is, which is both the "living" spiritual world, and the "dead" material world. The individual jiva-souls are naturally part of the spiritual world that is their home and only visit the temporary material world, and can further fall down to the "inactive" (dormant) impersonal brahmajyoti where they unnaturally temporarily appear as a bodiless “spiritual spark.”

All activities in the decaying material world (decaying matter) are the dreams of Maha-Visnu, including all material bodily vessels that together takes up 25% of the Spiritual Sky. 

These are the facilities the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) fall down to when they choose to enter the material world. 

The spiritual world (active living eternal individual units of anti-matter) takes up 75% of the Spiritual Sky that includes Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, and His Visnu-tattva expansions and His jiva-tattva (individual jiva-souls) independent expansions. 

This is difficult to comprehend for most because it is only understood correctly by Krsna's (God's) representatives (devotees) and never through mental speculation, or from those who foolishly believe all individual jiva-souls originate from a nonsense impersonal origin known as an all-pervasive "oneness" of consciousness, who foolishly believe God (Krsna) is not ultimately an individual Person as a spiritual bodily form, but only as an all-pervasive oneness of consciousness. 

The fact is Krsna is both an individual unique Person and all-pervasive (all-one) with His creation.

All material bodily vessel's pathways (decaying matter) are "hired" to the individual jiva-souls (living units of anti-matter) by Maha-Visnu to those who enter the material world after falling down (or choosing to leave) their original home in the spiritual world (the Kingdom of God).

Once entering the temporary material world, the individual jiva-souls become a passengers in a material bodily vessel provided for their journey through the temporary material world by Maha-Visnu. He facilities those individual jiva-souls (devotees) who had previously rejected Krsna or Visnu in the spiritual world.  

All individual life comes from the spiritual world, which means originally all life expanded directly from Goloka-Vrindavana (Krsna's central Abode known as Krsnaloka in the spiritual world), this means no life originates from the material world, the impersonal brahmajyoti, or from the Body of Maha-Visnu (Krsna's expansion who creates the material world). 

Maha-Visnu is Krsna's direct expansion, who also expands as Garbhodakashayi Visnu and as Ksirodakasayi Visnu (Paramatma or Supersoul) who have their roles to play in the management and maintenance of  the temporary material world. 

For example, Ksirodakasayi Visnu known as the 4 armed Supersoul or Paramatma Form of God, accompanies every individual jiva-soul who enters the material world. In Gaudiya Vaisnava theology the Paramatma does not accompany the individual jiva-souls when they enter or merge into the impersonal brahmajyoti (the spiritual effulgence of Krsna)

The role of Ksirodakasayi Visnu (Paramātmā or Supersoul): 

The Paramātmā (an expansion of Viṣṇu/Kṛṣṇa) accompanies and resides in the heart alongside the individual jīva-soul specifically within the material world (and within material bodies) to witness, sanction, and guide the jiva-soul's material experiences and desires.

State in the brahmajyoti:

When a individual jīva-soul attempts to end material suffering by extinguishing its active individuality and merging into the impersonal brahmajyoti, it enters a dormant, inactive state. Because this state is devoid of personal loving service or relational interaction with the Supreme Lord, it is viewed by Vaisnava devotees as a form of spiritual stagnation rather than true liberation (mukti). The personal presence of the Ksirodakasayi Visnu (Paramātmā) as an active guide does not operate within that impersonal merging in the dormant brahmajyoti.

The Srimad Bhagavatam explains that even in the material atom exists a dormant (inactive) individual jiva-soul accompanied by the Supersoul or Paramatma.

As said above, no individual jiva-soul (marginal living entity) originates from Maha-Visnu, they all enter His material world after choosing to leave or fall down from their original natural position and home in the spiritual world.

All material bodily vessels and their pathways through the material world that house the "individual jiva-souls" as the passenger, enter from outside the lifeless material world, meaning they originally came from the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the Kingdom of God) 

Once in the temporary material world, the individual jiva-souls "hire" a material bodily vessel and its pathway from Maha-Visnu (from His dreaming) the creator of the temporary material world.

The material world is visited by only a minority of individual jiva-souls (less than 10% from the spiritual world, voluntarily enter the material world) whose original natural position and home is always the spiritual world.

Srila Prabhupada explains that fall down from the spiritual planets is very, very, very rare because over 90% of individual jiva-souls in the spiritual world choose to never fall down.

Most choose to never leave the spiritual worlds of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the Kingdom of God) and enter the mundane decaying material world.

Dr. John Mize – "Did all the individual jiva-souls that were in the spiritual world fall out of the spiritual world at once, or at different times, or are there any individual jiva-souls that are always good, they’re not foolish, they don’t fall down to the material world ?"

Srila Prabhupada – "No, majority, 90%, they are always good; they never fall down."

Dr. John Mize – "So we’re among the 10%."

Srila Prabhupada – "Yes, or less than that. In the whole material world the living entities (individual jiva-souls) who go there are just like those in society who go to prison, there is some population in there, but they are not the majority. The majority of the population is outside of the prison house. Similarly, the majority of individual jiva-souls, part and parcel of God, they are in the spiritual world. Only a few fall down."

Dr. John Mize – "Does Krsna know ahead of time that an individual jiva-soul is going to be foolish and fall?"

Srila Prabhupada – "Krsna? Yes, Krsna may know because He is omniscient."

Dr. John Mize – "Are more jiva-souls falling all the time?"

Srila Prabhupada – "Not all the time. But there is the tendency of fall down, not for all, but because there is independence (free-will). Everyone is not liking to misuse their independence. The same example, just like a government constructing a city and constructs a prison house because the government knows that somebody will be a criminal. So, their shelter must also be constructed. It is very easy to understand. Not that cent per cent population will be criminal, but the government knows that some of them will be. Otherwise, why do they construct a prison house also? One may say, "Where is the criminal? You are constructing" Government knows, there will be criminal. So, if the ordinary government can know, why God can not know also, Because there is tendency."

Dr. John Mize – "The origin of that tendency to fall from Goloka-Vrindavana is?"

Srila Prabhupada – "Yes."

Dr. John Mize – "From where does that tendency come?"

Srila Prabhupada – "So everyone can know that independence (free-will) means one can use it properly, or one can misuse it. That is independence; that tendency is always there. If you make it one way only, that you cannot fall down, that is not independence. That is force. Therefore, Krsna says, yathecchasi tathä kuru. "Now you do whatever you like." (BG lecture, Mayapur, June 20, 1973)

Syamasundara dasa - "Can we predict that returning back home back to Godhead will be permanent? Can we predict that? Just like many prisoners leave the prison, however, some do come back?''

Srila Prabhupada - "No, there is no permanent effect because we have got little independence. There is nothing permanent because you can misuse your independence at any time."

Syamasundara dasa - "And some come back?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, otherwise there is no meaning of independence (free-will). Independence means you can do this; you can do that. "All right. Whatever you like."

Devotee - "Then the individual jiva-soul is so many times falling down, again and again, so will he eventually permanently come back to the spiritual world?"

Srila Prabhupada - "He has got independence (free-will); therefore, there is always the possibility he can misuse his independence. he can fall down. That's why when a man is released from the prison house, that does not mean permanently because he can come back again, the general law is not to come back, but if he likes, he can come back, otherwise what is the meaning of independence and free will? Just like one becomes free from the prison house, naturally, he should not go there again." (Discussions with Syamasundara dasa on Henri Bergson philosophy) 

The individual jiva-souls possesses minute independence. When an individual jiva-soul desires to imitate the Supreme Lord or enjoy independently, they choose to turn away from Krsna, leading to a conditional existence in the material world.

Devotee – "When we are in the spiritual sky and serving Krsna, we have a perfect relationship with Krsna, what causes us to fall down to the material world, because we’re already serving Krsna?”

Srila Prabhupada – "Because you desire to fall down. Here it is explained that, "don’t fall down."

Devotee – "Srila Prabhupada, I can’t understand why we should have an impure desire when we are already serving Krsna."

Srila Prabhupada – "Because you have got little freedom, you have free will. Why one is not coming here and going to the liquor shop? It is his desire."

Devotee – "In the Srimad-Bhagavatam it says that Krsna did not want us to come to this material world. If Krsna did not want us to come, then why are we here?"

Srila Prabhupada – "Yes, you forced Krsna to allow you to come, just like sometimes a child forces his father. Father says, "My dear son, do not do this. Do not go there, but he insists, "Oh, I must go. I must go. All right, you go at your risk and suffer. What can be done?" So because you are Son of God you have got independence, full independence, therefore you have acquired the quality of your father, so God does not interfere with your independence, your free will. If you persist that "I must go and enjoy independently," God says, "All right, you can go." This is the position. You have to take sanction. That is a fact. But when you persist, God sanctions. And you come and enjoy." (Melb Australia June 25, 1974)

Acyutananda – "So what made the individual jiva-soul take birth in the material world in first place?"

Srila Prabhupada – "In the first place?"

Acyutananda – "What is the first birth? What is the cause of the first birth?"

Srila Prabhupada – "Yes, that is stated in the Prema-vivarta:

krsna-bahirmukha hana bhoga vancha kare nikata-stha maya tare japatiya dhare

"We are eternal servants of Krsna. As soon as we want to become master, that is the beginning of our first birth in the material world. We have got independence. Krsna says, mamaivamso jiva bhutah—we are part and parcel of Krsna—so Krsna has got full independence, but we are minute; therefore we have got minute independence. Our business is to serve Krsna, but as soon as we give up this idea, we want to become master. That is the beginning of our material birth." (Lecture SB, Canto 5 Ch 5 text 2, Hyderabad, April 11, 1975)

Acyutananda – "But in the Bhagavad Gita it says, "Once coming to the spiritual world, he never returns to the material creation. He can return?"

Srila Prabhupada – "If he likes he can return, that is voluntary."

Guru-kripa – "How is it that one can become envious of Krsna?"

Srila Prabhupada – "You have got little independence (free-will), you can violate. Because you are part and parcel of God. God has got full independence, but you have got independence too, proportionately, because you are part and parcel, so if you like, you can return. That independence (free-will) has to be accepted. We can misuse that. Krsna-bahirmukha haïä bhoga väïchä kare. That misuse is the cause of our falldown." (Conversation, Mayapur, West Bengal Feb 19, 1976)

Srila Prabhupada - "So, even in the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, if I desire that ‘Why shall I serve Krsna? Why not become Krsna?’ I immediately fall down, that is natural. A servant is serving the master, but sometimes he may think that, "If I could become the master." They are thinking like that; they are trying to become God. That is delusion, you cannot become God, that is not possible. But he’s wrongly thinking he can."

Vipina Purandara - "Why doesn’t Krsna protect us from that desire?"

Srila Prabhupada - "He is protecting you. He says, "You rascal, don’t desire an independent existence separate from Me, surrender unto Me." But you are rascal; you do not do this."

Vipina Purandara - "Why doesn’t Krsna save me from thinking like that?"

Srila Prabhupada - "That means you lose your independence (free-will). That is force, in Bengali it is said, ‘If you catch one girl or boy, ‘You love me, you love me, you love me." Is it love? “You love me otherwise I will kill you!’ Is that love? So Krsna does not want to become a lover like that, on the point of revolver. ‘You love me, otherwise I shall kill you!’ That is not love; that is threatening. Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling. Then there is love. Not by force; that is rape. Why one is called lover, another is called rape?" (July 8, 1976 in Washington, D.C.)

Paramahamsa - "But ultimately if we come to Krsna, there’s no return?"

Srila Prabhupada - "There is return, that is voluntary, return is there."

Paramahamsa - "If we want."

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes."

Paramahamsa - "So we can come to the spiritual world and return to the material world if we choose?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes."

Paramahamsa -"Fall down?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, as soon as we think, "Oh, this material world is very nice, yes, Krsna says, yes, you go and enjoy the material world, otherwise what is the meaning of free will? Every individual jiva-soul has got a little free will. And Krsna is so kind, He gives us the opportunity, "All right, you enjoy like this." Just like some of our students sometimes go away and again come back. It is free will. Just like one goes to the prison house, not that government welcomes, "Come on, we have got prison house. Come here, come here." He goes out of his free will; again comes out, again goes in. Like that."

Paramahamsa - "So our desire to enjoy without Krsna, we achieve these material bodies; and our desire to achieve Krsna brings us back to our natural original position."

Srila Prabhupada - ''Yes." (Morning Walk Cheviot Golf Course, May 13, 1973, Los Angeles)

Srila Prabhupada – "Regarding your questions about how and from where did the conditioned souls fall, your first question if someone has a relationship with Lord Krsna on Krsnaloka (Goloka-Vrindavana), does he ever fall down? The individual jiva-souls are endowed with minute independence as part of their nature and this minute independence may be utilized rightly or wrongly at anytime due to free-will, so there is always a chance of falling down by misuse of one’s independence." (Letter to Jagadisa dasa, 25 April 1970)

Srila Prabhupada – "Regarding your several questions, where are all the spirit souls coming from? These spirit souls and all spirit souls are coming from Vaikuntha, but in these material worlds they are taking various grades of bodies according to their material activities. There is no new soul, new and old are due to this material body, but the soul is never born and never dies, so if there is no birth, how there can be new souls?" (Letter to Jagadisa dasa, 9 July 1970)

Srila Prabhupada - "Regarding your questions concerning the individual jiva-souls falling into Maya’s influence, it is not that those who have developed a passive relationship with Krsna are more likely to fall into nescient activities. Usually anyone who has developed his relationship with Krsna does not fall down in any circumstance, but because the independence is always there, the soul may fall down from any position or any relationship by misusing his independence." (Letter to Jagadisa dasa, 27 Feb 1970)

Srila Prabhupada - "The relationship with Krsna is never lost, it is simply forgotten by the influence of maya, so it maybe regained or revived by the process of hearing the Holy Name of Krsna and then the devotee engages himself in the service of the Lord which is his original or constitutional position. The relationship of the individual jiva-souls with Krsna is eternal as both Krsna and the individual jiva-souls are eternal; the process is one of revival only, nothing new." (Letter to Jagadisa dasa, 27 Feb 1970)

As said above, no individual jiva-souls originates from the temporary decaying lifeless material world where they are only a visitor there housed as a passenger in a material bodily vessel.

So clearly, the individual jiva-souls (living individual units of anti-matter) never originated from the lifeless temporary material world, from Maha-Visnu, or from the impersonal inactive brahmajyoti (Krsna's Bodily effulgence).

In Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 4 Chapter 28 text 53 and text 54/5 is explained that the individual jiva-soul's original home is with Visnu or Krsna in either the Vaikuntha planets where Visnu resides, or in Krsna's Personal Abode known as Goloka-Vrindavana.

The individual jiva-souls (living individual units of anti-matter) are not suppose to be in the decaying material world covered by a decaying material bodily vessel housed as the passenger, or after becoming frustrated with material life within those material bodily vessel as a passenger, artificially escaping from that painful bodily cycle of repeated birth and death, by attempting to enter the dormant "inactive" impersonal brahmajyoti effulgence (Krsna's Bodily effulgence).

In Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 4 text 28, Krsna in the disguise of a Brahmana, asks the individual jiva-soul, now trapped in the material world,

"Do you remember Me?" 

So, how is it possible to remember what you never previous knew? This clearly means we originate from Goloka Vrindavana and the Vaikuntha planets, and from there have entered the temporary material world.

Only the uneducated believe the individual jiva-souls originate from the impersonal inactive brahmajyoti, or the Body of Maha-Visnu. 

The individual jiva-souls do not originate from the inactive (dormant) impersonal brahmajyoti, or the Body of Maha-Visnu. In fact life (anti-matter) only exists in the material world after coming from the spiritual world. 

In other words, all life that enters the material world comes under the jurisdiction of Maha-Visnu after the individual jiva-souls fall down or leave the spiritual world (the Kingdom of God).

The mysterious workings of Maha-Visnu's material world works in a way that not even science fiction writers can imagine, all material bodily vessels the individual jiva-souls are housed in as passengers, originate from the dreams of Maha-Visnu.

The individual jiva-souls, also known as the marginal living entities due to having free will, can choose to remain in the spiritual world, their natural home, or enter the temporary material world and become housed as a passenger in an unlimited number of material bodily vessels and their pathways on their journey through the material world. 

Being able to choose between being in their natural home and original position in the spiritual world, or enter the temporary material world, is what being "marginal living entities" mean.

The marginal platform also known as tatastha-sakti, refers to the “individual jiva-souls” as being on the "border-line," or on the fence (not literally) between the spiritual world and the material world. 

Tatastha-sakti is not a place in Krsna’s creation, it means the eternal individual jiva-souls always have a choice to live in the spiritual world, or live the material world. 

It means they can remain in their original position and home in the spiritual world, or can choose to enter the temporary material world where they are housed as a passenger in a material bodily vessel, and experience repeated birth and death while confined within a those material bodily vessels.  

Those individual jiva-souls who have left the spiritual world and entered the material world, must go to Maha-Visnu who creates and maintains the material world, and "hire" from Him a suitable material bodily vessel and its pathway from Him that is in sync with their own desires.

Maha-Visnu is dreaming of the entire material world, everything in the material world are His dreams.

All material bodily vessel's pathways through the material world are "hired" to the individual jiva-souls by Maha-Visnu for them to be a passenger in while on their journey travelling through the temporary material world (decaying matter) because they have rejected Krsna and Visnu in the spiritual world (living anti-matter).

Srila Prabhupada - "We are not the owner of this material bodily vessel, not the owner of the material senses. The senses are "hired" from the Supreme Lord (Maha-Visnu). This is very subtle understanding; one should know the proprietor of the senses is God." (March 1966, New York City).

Krsna's expansion Maha-Visnu creates the material world by His dreaming and includes all temporary material bodily vessels and their pathways that the individual jiva-souls are passengers in/on while outside of the spiritual world and now living in the temporary material world.  

Nothing material (dead matter) exists in the spiritual world including all material bodily vessels the individual jiva-souls are housed inas the passenger while in the material world.

The living individual units of anti-matter (the individual jiva-soul) are minor and separated expansions of Krsna. 

However, Kṛṣṇa the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and His Visnu-tattva expansions who are an unlimited number of Visnu/Narayana Forms, are both individual persons, yet simultaneously "all-one" (all-pervasive) with Kṛṣṇa. 

All life originate from the spiritual world of Goloka-Vrindavana.

Kṛṣṇa is an individual Person as a spiritual bodily Form and simultaneously "all-pervasive" (all-one) with everything in the spiritual world and material worlds. 

Along with His Visnu-tattva expansions and His separated jiva-tattva expansion (individual jiva-souls) they take up 75% of the Spiritual Sky. 

The material world created by Krsna's expansion Maha-Visnu, takes up 25% of Krsna’s Spiritual Sky however, is devoid of life and is only where individual life (individual jiva-souĺs) enters after leaving the spiritual world.  

All facilities including bodily vessels made of decaying matter in the material world, are provided (hired out) by Maha-Visnu through His dreams to those individual jiva-souls who can no longer stay in the spiritual world due to voluntarily choosing to reject Krsna and Visnu.

The individual jiva-souls can do this due to being "marginal living entities," which means they have the "free will" to be independent from Krsna and can express themselves in the way they choose.  

As previously explained, Krsna allows free-will in His creation because He wants a "two-way" voluntary relationship of loving exchanges His devotees that must include them even rejecting Krsna if they choose. For free-will to truly exist and have any meaning, such freedom of actions and express must always exist in Krsna's creation.  

As previously explained, no individual jiva-soul (marginal living entity) originates from Maha-Visnu, His dreaming of the material world, or from the impersonal dormant "inactive" brahmajyoti (Krsna's Bodily effulgence)

Revatīnandana dasa - "Srila Prabhupāda you very clearly explained to me once in a letter that if the individual jiva-soul goes into the brahmajyoti, that is considered a fallen condition, still fallen, so does that means the whole brahmajyoti is composed of fallen individual jiva-souls? You see my question? If I go there, I'm a jīva-soul, and if I go there to the brahmajyoti effulgence, am I fallen?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes."

Revatīnandana dasa - "That means all individual jīva-souls there in the impersonal Brahman (Brahmajyoti) are also fallen souls?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes, existence in the impersonal brahman is also within the category of non-Krsna consciousness. Those who are in the brahman effulgence are also in the fallen condition, so there is no question of falling down from a fallen condition. When fall takes place, it means falling down from the non-fallen condition (Goloka-Vrindavana and Vaikuntha). The non-fallen condition is Krsna consciousness." (Letter to Revatinandana, L.A. 13 June, 1970 and 1971 London)

The individual jiva-soul's original position and home is the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana in the spiritual world. 

Within the spiritual world because Krsna allows a two-way exchange of emotions,  the individual jiva-souls (devotees) can reject Krsna and Viṣṇu if they choose, and be transferred to Maha-Visnu's material world via His dreams, which is an array of unlimited material bodily vessels and their pathways that the individual jiva-souls can "hire" and enter as the passenger while in the material world.

These material bodily vessel pathways are an already build and established roadway from the dreams of Maha-Visnu, are fixed within the fabric of material time's past, present and future. Each step of material time, moving through material vessels on their pathway, eternally exists within Maha-Visnu's dreams of the material world.

The individual jiva-souls are housed in a material bodily pathway made of material bodily containers that they are passengers in, on a journey through past, present and future housed in those temporary material bodies, experiencing repeated birth and death for as long as they stay housed in a material bodily vessel within the material world.

There are unlimited "material bodily pathways" available to the individual jiva-souls to be a passenger in/on, instantly placing them on a "fixed material bodily roadway" in Maha-Visnu's dreaming of the material world.

The individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities), just like Krsna, were never created and have no origin to their existence, nor will they ever cease to be, they are eternal just like Krsna is as Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 2 text 12 to 30 explains.

The individual jiva-souls never originated from the impersonal brahmajyoti, tatastha-sakti, the material world or Maha-Visnu because they have no origin, they are beginningless and endless and were never created, just like Krsna was never created and has always existed.

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be." (BG, Ch 2 text 12)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change." (BG, Ch 2 text 13)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O son of Kuntī, the non-permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed." (BG, Ch 2 text 14)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O best among men [Arjuna], the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation." (BG, Ch 2 text 15)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the non-existent [the material bodily vessel] there is no endurance and of the eternal [the soul] there is no change. This they have concluded by studying the nature of both." (BG, Ch 2 text 16)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul." (BG, Ch 2 text 17)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "The material body of the indestructible, immeasurable and eternal living entity is sure to come to an end; therefore, fight, O descendant of Bharata." (BG, Ch 2 text 18)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Neither he who thinks the living entity the slayer nor he who thinks it slain is in knowledge, for the self slays not nor is slain." (BG, Ch 2 text 19) 

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain." (BG, Ch 2 text 20 from the “corrected” 1983 edition)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O Pārtha, how can a person who knows that the soul is indestructible, eternal, unborn and immutable kill anyone or cause anyone to kill?" (BG, Ch 2 text 21)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones." (BG, Ch 2 text 22)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind." (BG, Ch 2 text 23)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same." (BG, Ch 2 text 24)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "It is said that the soul is invisible, inconceivable and immutable. Knowing this, you should not grieve for the body." (BG, Ch 2 text 25)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "If, however, you think that the soul [or the symptoms of life] is always born and dies forever, you still have no reason to lament, O mighty armed." (BG, Ch 2 text 26)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "One who has taken his birth is sure to die, and after death one is sure to take birth again. Therefore, in the unavoidable discharge of your duty, you should not lament." (BG, Ch 2 text 27)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation?" (BG, Ch 2 text 28)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Some look on the soul as amazing, some describe him as amazing, and some hear of him as amazing, while others, even after hearing about him, cannot understand him at all." (BG, Ch 2 text 29)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O descendant of Bharata, he who dwells in the material body can never be slain. Therefore, you need not grieve for any living being." (BG, Ch 2 text 30)

Srila Prabhupada – "There are no new souls, new and old are due to this material body, but the jiva-soul is never born and never dies, so if there is no birth, how can there be new souls?" (Letter to Jagadisa dasa, 9 July 1970)

There is no origin to Krsna's marginal energy, an unlimited number of individual jiva-souls who have all existed for as long as Krsna has existed, which is for eternity. 

The individual jiva-souls are eternal living persons as a spiritual bodily form who can never be destroyed, cut into pieces, terminated or extinguished, the individual jiva-souls are indestructible. 

Krsna and the individual jiva-souls are like the Sun-disc and the sun-rays that cannot exist without each other. Krsna and the individual jiva-souls have always existed together and were never created.

Although, as said above, the real eternal home of the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) is always in either the Vaikuntha planets of Lord Visnu, or Krsna's central planet of Goloka Vrindavana, and not the temporary mundane material creation, or merged inactively (dormant) in the impersonal Brahmajyoti, or originate from the Body of Maha-Visnu.  

No individual life (Visnu-tattva, Siva-tattva and jiva-tattva) originates from Maha-Visnu and His dreaming material creation. The material bodily vessels (decaying matter) the individual jiva-souls are housed in as the passengers, are the creation of Maha-Visnu and always belong to Him and His material world. This means all life in the material world comes from the spiritual world (The Kingdom of God).

Only Kṛṣṇa and His Visnu/Narayana (Visnu-tattva) expansions are simultaneously an individual Person, and all-pervasive (all-one) with Krsna's creation. 

The individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) are eternally separate independent individual personalities who are not God (Krsna) and therefore "never all-one" with the creation like Krsna and Viṣṇu are.

According to Srila Prabhupada and Gaudiya Vaisnava philosophy, Lord Siva is not an ordinary living entity (individual jiva-soul), nor is he equal to Lord Krsna or Visnu. 

Instead, his relationship with the Supreme Lord is governed by the philosophy of acintya-bhedabheda-tattva (simultaneously one and different), often illustrated through the analogy of milk and yogurt (dadhi):

Simultaneously One (Non-different):

Lord Siva is an expansion of Krsna (specifically via Sankarshana and Sadasiva) and is not separate from Him in essence. In that sense, he is "more or less, Krsna Himself" taking on a specific function (annihilation of the material universe and interaction with material nature).

Simultaneously Different (Not equal): 

Just as yogurt is transformed milk, yogurt cannot be used or accepted as milk. Lord Siva possesses 85.94% of Krsna's transcendental attributes which is having 55 of Krsna’s 64 attributes. (Mathematically 55 out of 64 is exactly 85.9375%)

Compared to Visnu/Narayana (Visnu-tattva) who possess 93.75% of Krsna’s attributes, having 60 of Krsna’s 64 qualities, and Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, possesses 100% full-cent.

Srila Prabhupada - "So these sixty-four qualities of Krsna, they have analysed that we living entities, we have got in minute quantities. And amongst the living entities, the highest perfection is to be seen in the life of Brahmā, who is the chief living entity within this universe. So similarly, Lord Śiva has got fifty-five. Lord Nārāyaṇa has got sixty. But Kṛṣṇa has got in full sixty-four. Cent percent, hundred percent all the qualities. Therefore either Lord Śiva or Lord Brahmā or the living entities, nobody can be equal to Him. This is the conception of God." (Lecture on SB, Canto 5 Ch 5 text 1, Los Angeles, January 20, 1969)

Connection with Material Nature: 

Unlike Krsna and Visnu, who remain completely transcendental and unaffected by material energy (maya), Lord Siva is associated with material nature in his role as the master of tamo-guna (the mode of ignorance) and cosmic dissolution.

Maha-Visnu's dreams all the temporary material world, He sees the individual jiva-soul's movement through material time's past, present and future, "housed" as the passenger (as individual units of anti-matter) in a material bodily vessel and its pathway (matter).

This pathway of material bodily vessels the individual jiva-souls are passengers in, is known as Mahā-Viṣṇu's "block material universe" where past, present and future all exist at the same time eternally.

The individual jiva-souls pass through that passage or pathway of material time as its passenger housed in a material bodily vessel. This means each step along the way through material time, material bodily vessels exist as a pathway that house an unlimited number of individual jiva-souls who have chosen to enter the temporary material world. 

Each "pathway of material bodily vessels" that house an individual jiva-soul (living anti-matter) as its passenger, always exist in Mahā-Viṣṇu's already dreamed dreams.  

These material bodily pathways, also known as a progressive thoroughfare moving through past, present and future, means it is a road or route forming material bodily pathways from one place to another that is always open to "house" an unlimited number of individual jiva-souls who choose to enter those pathways of the infamous and famous, demigod and demon.

Only a minority of individual jiva-souls (less than 10%) choose to leave their real spiritual home in the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, and foolishly enter the temporary material world and move into a material bodily vessel's pathway as a passenger. 

All material bodily vessel's pathway that house the individual jiva-souls as a passenger, are "hired" from Maha-Visnu's dreams of His material world as explained above.

Srila Prabhupada - "We are not the owner of this body, not the owner of the material senses. The senses are "hired" from the Supreme Lord. This is very subtle understanding; one should know the proprietor of the senses is God." (March 1966, New York City).

Srila Prabhupada – "Factually all of material existence is only a dream. Thus there is no question of past, present or future. Persons who are addicted to karma-kanda-vicara, which means ‘working for future happiness through fruitive activities’, are also dreaming. Similarly, past happiness and present happiness are merely dreams." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 29 text 2b).

Being on a "material bodily pathway's" journey is how the individual jiva-souls travel through material bodily vessels existing permanently in time's past, present to future, as its passenger, moving along the material bodily vessel's pathway's start (birth) to its end (death), just like one travels from the beginning to the end of a permanent roadway that many others also travel on.

The means the material bodily vessel's pathway in the material world is already set in stone within Maha-Visnu's dreaming, from its beginning to its end, this means each material bodily pathway that the visiting individual jiva-soul travels in as a passenger, comes from the already dreamed dreams of Maha-Visnu, and can only be lived through and never changed because each material bodily vessel's pathway is already set in stone in Maha-Visnu's already dreamed dreams of the material world. 

All material bodily pathways that carry the individual jiva-souls as a passenger, eternally exists within the dreams of Maha-Visnu, just like each frame on a film canister always exists and can be viewed again and again. 

The visiting individual jiva-souls who choose to leave the spiritual world, where everything there is living individual personalities of anti-matter, enter the temporary material world (decaying matter) then "hire" a material bodily vessel and its pathway off Maha-Visnu, from His dreams, to be a passenger in.

As said above, such material bodily vessels from the dreams of Maha-Visnu, are a already set in stone there beginning to its end because Maha-Visnu has already dreamed the entire material world He opens for "hires" to all individual jiva-souls who choose to leave the spiritual world, the origin and nature home of all individual life in Krsna's spiritual, material and impersonal brahmajyoti creations.

Once the individual jiva-souls enters Maha-Visnu's dreams (a material pathway of bodily vessels) as the passenger, nothing in that "hired" bodily material pathway can be changed because Maha-Visnu has already dreamed them.

However, paradoxically, because every possible scenario, combination and arrangement of material realities (dreams) exist within Maha-Visnu's dreams, the individual jiva-soul can even "hire" a material bodily vessel where they can seemingly change the past, present and future, making it appear it is not set in stone, but this is never the case. 

This scenario ironically is possible due to Maha-Visnu granting of all desires the individual jiva-souls have, including a desire to seemingly change the outcome of a material bodily pathway's journey through past, present and future as its passenger. However, that seemingly attempt to change history is also included when a material bodily vessel's pathway is "hired" from Maha-Visnu. 

In actually fact, the individual jiva-souls have not changed anything because the "dream" they seemingly believed changed, is already included in Maha-Visnu's "dreamed dreams of the material world." 

No matter what the individual jiva-souls desires, everything they can possibly desire is already included within the dreamed dream of Maha-Visnu, all found in His unlimited "Vault Of Endless Dreams" that covers every combination, scenario and outcome possible.

Therefore, even when the individual jiva-souls believe they have changed an outcome, that outcome is also part of Maha-Visnu's dreaming. 

The point is everything there is in Krsna's creation of the material world, belongs to His expansion and administrator Maha-Visnu's dreams, and nothing can happen outside His dreams even if the individual jiva-souls think they can. 

All material bodily pathways are permanently available and continuously occupied by a constant stream visiting individual jiva-souls who have also chosen to leave the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (The Kingdom of God) and enter the temporary mundane material world.

In other words, each material bodily vessel's pathway "hired" from Maha-Visnu's dreams, are continuously available for other visiting individual jiva-souls from the spiritual world to also travel through/on as its passenger after leaving the spiritual world (anti-matter) and entering the temporary material world (matter).

In theoretical physics, the "block material universe" posits that time is a static dimension where all past, present, and future events exist simultaneously. 

In the context of Maha-Visnu, as said above, this means that every single permutation of the material world and every sequence of events, every possible outcome and scenario "already" and eternally exists within His dreams as the block universe.

This "block material universe" and its unlimited collection of "material bodily vessel pathways" that "house" the individual jiva-souls in matter, are eternally Maha-Visnu's dreams of the temporary material world. 

All material bodily vessels are a continuous movement of containers on a pathway through past, present and future for the individual jiva-soul as its passenger to move through, just like viewing the already permanently existing frames on a film reel or canister that still remain after being viewed.  

In other words, the material dreams of Maha-Visnu are a permanent fixture of material bodily vessels that move like the frames on a movie reel. 

This is what the Maha-Visnu's block material universe means, the individual jiva-souls move through past, present and future housed in a material bodily vessels as a passenger on an already established roadway that from above, one can see its beginning, middle and end. This is like viewing a projector that plays each frame in sequence on the movie reel.

Those individual jiva-souls (living units of anti-matter) who travel this journey through the material world's past, present and future, are always contained housed in a material bodily vessel as the passenger. 

It is that mundane material bodily vessel that belongs to Maha-Visnu and hired to the individual jiva-souls, that carries them on its journey through past, present and future in the material world.  

As said above, these pathways of material bodily containers are "hired" from Maha-Visnu dreams so the individual jiva-souls can enter His material world and pursue their desires with out Krsna and Visnu. 

The view of linear-time (moving forward through time) is different from the over all block material universe that sees everything, past, present and future simultaneously. 

Linear-time is the forward journey of a material bodily vessel that houses an individual jiva-soul as its passenger, moving from past to present to future along a pathway forward through time.

In other words, linear-time is seen as a sequence of constant unfolding events moving through material time carrying the material bodily vessel the individual jiva-soul is in from its beginning point on that pathway in the material world, to its middle, and then to its end. 

Experiencing this journey through past, present and future seen together all at once (like seeing the entire journey of a roadway from above), is known as the block material universe. 

Seeing a long winding road from above in an aircraft, one can sees its beginning point, its middle, and its ending all at once, like viewing each frame on a movie canister that still exists after watching the film reel. 

In the block view of the material universe, one is able to see where the road began, its middle and its end. 

This is the difference between the "block material universe" that sees everything  similtaneously, and "linear time" that flows forward "along/through" material time. 

The block material universe is seen all at once, meaning past, present and future eternally exist all together like one sees frame after frame after frame on a movie reel that continues to exist after one experiences it. This is the block material universe creation of Maha-Visnu.  

Only Maha-Visnu and rare mystic yogis and devotees can see the block material universe above linear time, just like one sees an entire roadway from above - its beginning, middle and end all happening at the same time.

All material bodily vessels (decaying matter) that house the individual jiva-souls as its passenger, are "hired" from Maha-Visnu's dreams, coming from His vast "Library Of Dreams" to those visiting individual jiva-souls (living individual units of anti-matter) who originate from the spiritual world, whose desires are in-sync with Maha-Visnu's dreams of material bodily vessels that houses them as a passenger on their journey through the decaying material world.  

All material bodily vessels are like costumes "hired out" from a costume shop, in this case owned by Maha-Visnu, to the visiting individual jiva-souls to wear.

The individual jiva-soul's desires, choices and expressions of "free will" are factored in to a particular material body and its pathway that they enter as a passenger on its journey through the temporary material world.

However, free will only partially exists in the material world in the human species but not in the other eight million lower species who only respond to the instincts of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. In other words, free will never exist in lower species.

Maha-Visnu sees everything, the beginning, middle and end of all material bodily vessel's pathways moving through past, present and future simultaneously.  

The individual jiva-souls are passengers in those decaying material bodily pathways moving through past, present and future.

All material bodily vessels (decaying matter) occupied (housed) by the visiting individual jiva-souls (living individual units of anti-matter) who enter the material world to become a passenger, are the material dreams of Maha-Visnu.

There is always "free will" however, each material body's pathway destiny that the visiting individual jiva-souls enter, is already mapped out in the dreams of Maha-Visnu explained above.

Free will is always factored into the equation in such a way that the free will of each individual jiva-souls is never compromised or lost.

Free will always exists in the spiritual world that allows the individual jiva-souls to voluntarily except or reject Krsna as they choose, which means they can leave Krsna's association in the spiritual world and enter the material world.

Although it must be made clear that only a small minority of individual jiva-souls (devotees) fall down from the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (The Kingdom of God) and enter the temporary material world. 

In fact, as explained above, less than 10% of individual jiva-souls (devotees) choose to leave the spiritual world meaning over 90% of Krsna's devotees never leave Krsna and Visnu's Personal association.  

The freedom to choose must always be there so voluntary loving expressions, reciprocation,  cooperation and exchanges can openly exist on the Vaikuntha planets and in Goloka-Vrindavana (The Kingdom of God).

Surrender to Krsna in the spiritual world does not mean giving up your free will, which is the independent actions to perform voluntary contributions serving Krsna, and instead allow Krsna to impersonally control all your thoughts and deeds, no, that is not what "surrender to Krsna" means!  

The fact is, the individual jiva-souls in the spiritual world are not programmed "mindless" puppets, who only obey the puppeteer and denied all individual voluntary contributions they offer in their relationship with Krsna, provided in their own unique way thinking for themselves without mindless impersonal manipulation.

The individual jiva-souls can never lose their free will in the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka-Vrindavana, which is the individual ability of self expression that allows them to offer their own personal contributions to Krsna unique to each individual jiva-soul.

Only by expressing free will can genuine loving exchanges, reciprocation, voluntary cooperation and contributions take place. Without free will the individual jiva-soul is no better than dead stone Prabhupada has warned us.

Furthermore, Krsna never interferes with the free will of the individual jiva-souls because if He did and never allowed them to have their free will (freedom of self-expression) to voluntary make their own choices in the spiritual world, then that also would mean loving exchanges and reciprocation with Krsna would never exist.

If one is forced to worship Krsna or His Visnu/Narayana expansions in an autocratic dictatorship, then that is not love, it is tyranny, slavery and bullying that denies personal voluntary contributions in a reciprocal relationship of loving exchanges which is impersonalism.

The impersonal version of Krsna's abode of Goloka-Vrindavana or the Vaikuntha planets is where the individual jiva-souls are forced to surrender their free will (voluntary service of contributions) to a bogus god that allows this so called god to take over one's existence and do all your thinking and actions for you. 

There are many nonsense sangas (religious cults) in this world who propagate this dangerous hellish suicidal dictatorial impersonalism.

These impersonalist, called Mayavadi offenders, claim everything is ultimately all one which means that an "all-pervasive" life force (universal consciousness) now individually restricted within each material bodily vessel, merges back into the oneness of universal consciousness when the material bodily vessel becomes unfit to occupy. Just like air in a glass is released from the glass and merges back into the surrounding air, or water released from a container merges back ito the river or ocean of water.

Having free will on the other hand, allows the individual jiva-souls to be themselves, which is an independent unique contributing devotee who always voluntarily chooses how they want to please and serve Krsna with their own personal offerings in a "two-sided" reciprocal relationship of loving exchanges.

Voluntary service is the bases and meaning of real surrender in Goloka Vrindavana and the Vaikuntha planets which are the permanent eternal homes and origin of all the marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls).

The individual jiva-souls on the Vaikuntha planets of Visnu and Krsna’s central Abode of Goloka-Vrindavana, are forever voluntarily expanding the expression of their unique individuality with an increasing variety of personal devotional offerings based on free will, it is never a nonsense one-sided master/slave mindless relationship with Krsna.

Krsna does not control the surrendered individual jiva-souls by force like a puppet master controls the every movement of his puppets with the manipulations of strings that only deny self expression, individual contributions and voluntary service.

However, Krsna does encourage His pure devotees with a "two-way exchange" that allows them to have voluntary loving reciprocal contributing exchanges with Him, where the individual jiva-souls can choose their own unique relationship with Krsna bases on to their unconditional love (attraction) to Krsna.  

Srila Prabhupada - "Krsna does not want His devotees become a lover by force, from the point of revolver, ‘you love me otherwise I shall kill you!’ That is not love; that is threatening. Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling. Then there is love. Not by force; no, that is rape. Why one is called lover, another is called rape?" (July 8, 1976 in Washington, D.C.)

If the individual jiva-souls have no free will in the spiritual world, then they are no better than dead useless stone Prabhupada tells us.

Srila Prabhupada - "If you have no free will, then you are a stone. The stone has no free will. You want to be stone? Then you must have free will! But don't misuse your free will. But don't try to become stone either. That is not life." (Aug 5, 1976, New Mayapur France)

So, from the self-centred desires of those individual jiva-souls who choose to ignore Krsna, instantly places them in the material world. This fall down from the spiritual world begins when they put their own desires in the centre, instead of voluntarily pleasing Krsna or Visnu.

Once in Maha-Visnu's temporary material world, they then "hire" a material bodily vessel from Him to be a passenger in, "hired" from His "Library Of Dreams" that transfers them to a temporary material bodily vessel and becomes its passenger. 

This is the beginning of the individual jiva-soul's entry into the material world after leaving the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka-Vrindavana (The Kingdom of God).

But such fall downs are very, very rare, as said above, less than 10% of individual jiva-souls fall down from the spiritual world (the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana), most never choose to leave.

Rejecting Krsna means the individual jiva-souls can no longer stay in the spiritual world and are therefore instantly transferred out of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, and relocated to the dreams of Maha-Visnu, where they can "hire" a particular material pathway made of material bodily vessels they enter as a passenger.

The individual jiva-soul enters (hires) a material bodily vessel's pathway that they journey on/in as its passenger, that matches their desires that are in sync with Maha-Visnu's dreams of the material world. 

Within Maha-Visnu's dreams of the material world, every possible "combination of matter" exists that meets the individual jiva-souls needs that they desire for their journey through the material world.  

This includes the individual jiva-soul's voluntary expression (free will) already factored into the equation of their destiny within a particular material bodily vessel they have chosen to enter as its passenger explained above. 

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is Chapter 11 Text 7 - "O Arjuna, whatever you wish to see, behold at once in this body of Mine! This universal form can show you whatever you now desire to see and whatever you may want to see in the future. Everything moving and non-moving is here completely, in one place." (BG, Ch 11 Text 7)

Srila Prabhupada  - "No one can see the entire universe while sitting in one place. Even the most advanced scientist cannot see what is going on in other parts of the universe. But a devotee like Arjuna can see everything that exists in any part of the universe. Kṛṣṇa gives him the power to see anything he wants to see, past, present and future. Thus by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, Arjuna is able to see everything." (BG, Ch 11 Text 7 Purport)

The great sages and devotees in previous ages thousands of years ago were "tri-kāla-jñā." meaning they could see all time, past, present and future, simultaneously or all at once. This means the past and future as the fabric of time, always exists in Maha-Visnu's material world.  

The individual jiva-souls who experience the journey through past, present and future housed as a passenger in a material bodily vessel's pathway, are different from other individual jiva-souls who also experienced that same journey through time on that same pathway. 

This means the "pathway of material bodily vessels" are a permanent fixture in Maha-Visnu's dreams of the material world which is also called Maha-Visnu's "block material universe" as explained above.

Tri-kāla-jñā means three main movements of time-

1 - What was in the past,

2 - What is at present.

3 - What shall happen in the future,

Over five thousand years ago, instructions from great Vedic sages were written down for this degraded age of Kali-yuga (the age of hypocrisy and quarrel). The sages and devotees back then could visit the past, the present, and the future and experience all these three movements of happening simultaneously.  

As said above, these sages were known as "tri-kāla-jñā," tri means three. Tri is a Sanskrit word, and three is a English or Latin word, both have the same meaning. 

Tri-kāla-jñā means one can see past, present and future simultaneously. Tri means three, and kāla means time. 

Material time is experienced in three ways-

past,
present,
future.

Material time is the movement along a material bodily vessel's pathway through past, present and future called "linear time" as explained above. 

Past, present and future only exists in the temporary material world (decaying matter) and not in the spiritual world (living anti-matter) where only the eternal presence of Krsna exists.

In the spiritual world there is no past or future, only the presence of "now" exists there. This means nothing ever decays, nor do devotees experience birth, disease, old age and death. 

1 - Material time means past, present and future exist with the side effects of birth, disease old age, death, decay, constant maintenance. 

Srila Prabhupada explains that the duration of the material universe is limited due to the nature of the temporary material world, it is manifested in cycles of yugas and kalpas.

There are four yugas (known as a Maha-yuga) that rotate a thousand times during Brahmā's "day-time" hours from sunrise to sunset and lasts for 4 billion 320 million human years that is also one kalpa.

The same number of 4 billion 320 million human years make up the "night-time" period between sunset and sunrise where no Maha-yugas manifest and Brahma sleeps while a partial annihilation happens, also known as a Kalpa.

There a two kalpas in a 24 hour day of Brahma, one for day-time and one for nigh-time.

This means one 24 hour day of Brahma lasts for 8 billion 640 million human years. Brahmā lives one hundred of his years which is 311 trillion and 40 billion human years.

Each Maha-yuga is made up of four yugas-

1 - 1,728,000 human years is the length of Satya-yuga.

2 - 1,296,000 human years is the length of Treta-yuga.

3 - 864,000 human years is the length of Dvapara-yuga.

4 - 432,000 human years is the length of Kali-Yuga.

The 4 yugas is a Mahā-yuga and lasts for 4,320,000 human years.

The cycle of Satya is characterized by virtue, wisdom and religion, there being practically no ignorance and vice in this yuga.

In the Tretā-yuga vice (moral failings) is introduced.

In the Dvāpara-yuga there is an even greater decline in virtue and religion, vice increases.

And finally in Kali-yuga (the yuga we have been in for over the past 5,000 years) there is an abundance of strife, hypocrisy, ignorance, irreligion and vice. True virtue  is practically non-existent in this degraded yuga.

In Kali-yuga vice increases to such a point that at the termination of the Kali-yuga the Supreme Lord Himself appears as the Kalki-Avatāra, vanquishes the demons, saves His devotees, and commences another Satya-yuga. Then the process of universal cycles is set rolling again. 

By these vast calculations, the life of Brahmā may seem fantastic but from the viewpoint of eternity it is as brief as a lightning flash.

In the Causal Ocean there are innumerable Brahmās rising and disappearing like bubbles in the Atlantic.

Each material universe each Brahma manages, are all part of Maha-Visnu's material creation where there are unlimited Brahmandas (material universes) and unlimited number of Garbhodakashayi Visnus and Brahmas.

The entire material world is Maha-Visnu's creation He manifests while He sleeps and is in constant state of decomposition, impermanence and decay." (Adapted from Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is, Ch 8, Text 17 Purport).

The "day-time" period of Lord Brahma is a kalpa, and the "night-time" period is also a kalpa. So there are "2 kalpas" in a 24 hour day of Brahma.

In human years from "sunrise to sunset" (12 hour day-time period of Brahma) is 4 billion 320 million human years in length. There are 1000 Maha-yugas (cycle of 4 yugas) that happen only during Brahma's "day-time." Brahma's "night-time" from "sunset to sunrise" has no Maha-yugas while Brahma sleeps and a partial annihilation of this material universe occurs, also is 4 billion 320 million years in length.  

A "24 hour day" of Brahma equals 8 billion 640 million human years in length.

A "month of Brahma (30 days)" equals 259 billion 200 million human years.

"12 months of Brahma (360 days)" equals 311 trillion 40 billion human years.

2 - Spiritual time means the eternal presence of Krsna always exists where there is no birth, disease old age, death, decay or maintenance.

In Gaudiya Vaisnava theology, as compiled and explained across the teachings of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, spiritual time is an eternal, blissful present (nitya) where the Supreme Lord and His devotees engage in perpetual pastimes without decay, anxiety, or the destructive divisions of past and future. 

Unlike material time (kāla), which drives creation toward inevitable destruction, spiritual time exists solely to facilitate the ever-fresh variety of devotional service (bhakti) in the transcendental abodes of the Vaikuntha planets of Visnu/Narayana and Krsna’s Personal Abode of Goloka Vrindavana.

In the spiritual sky, time does not divide existence into what was and what will be. Every event exists in an "eternal present," meaning nothing is ever lost, forgotten, or awaited with anxiety, while material time (past, present and future) acts as the "ultimate killer" that brings birth, old age, disease, and annihilation, spiritual time has no power to wither or destroy. Inhabitants retain eternally youthful, transcendental forms. (sat-cit-ānanda-vigraha which means eternity, knowledge, bliss and form)

Spiritual time functions dynamically rather than statically. In Goloka Vrindavana, sequences such as morning cowherding, midday forest play, and evening gatherings still unfold to give devotees ever-increasing bliss, yet they occur without schedules, stress, or fatigue.

In the material realm, kāla acts as an impersonal, controlling force of the Lord that agitates material nature. 

In the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, time is completely inactive as a controller, the movement of "past, present and future" we experience in the material world, does not exist in the spiritual world, only the "eternal presence" exists there meaning there is no past and future experiences like there is in the temporary material world. 

The spiritual world remains subordinate to Krsna's sweet will always within the "eternal presence" of Krsna.  

Srila Prabhupada frequently cites the Brahma-saṁhitā to illustrate the vast contrast between cosmic and spiritual time. The entire 311 trillion and 40 billion year lifespan of Lord Brahma, the creator of the material universe, is less than a fraction of a second in the spiritual realm.

According to Bhagavad Gita As It Is purports a living entity steps out of the grip of material time and enters the reality of spiritual time even while in a physical body by engaging in pure devotional service, particularly chanting the holy names (saṅkīrtana) the Hare Krsna maha-mantra.

The sages in those early days before Kali-yuga were "tri-kāla-jñā" meaning they could understand, experience and see all at once, what is in the past, what is at present and what is happening in the future.

In the Bhagavad gītā As It Is Kṛṣṇa says - "My Dear Arjuna, you, Me, I, and all these kings and soldiers who have assembled in this battlefield, they were all individuals, and we are still individual. And in this past, in the future, we shall all remain individuals. That past, present, and future, he explained. Another place Kṛṣṇa says, vedāhaṁ samatītāni (BG 7.26). Atītāni, atītāni means past. Vartamānāni ca, "and present." So that is yogic power, one can know past, present, and future." (SB, Canto 12 Ch 2 text 1, San Francisco, March 18, 1968)

There is still a lot more to learn about the movement of the individual jiva-souls on their journey in a material bodily vessel as a passenger through material time's past, present and future.

We have only scratched the surface in understanding Vedic texts in the 61 years since Srila Prabhupada began making his valuable contribution to the western world in 1965.

Unlike the spiritual world's "eternal presence" of time (the eternal "now") where past and future do not exist and only the "eternal presence" of Krsna exists, the movement of material time in the temporary material world is eternally divided into past, present and future which is a roadway that has its beginning point (birth), middle (youth and middle age) and end (old age and death). 

This is only experienced by the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) while they are passengers in a temporary material bodily vessel (decaying matter) in the material world that is a pathway through past, present and future. This is the individual jiva-souls journey, housed as a passenger in a material bodily vessel, moving through the temporary material world (the dreams of Maha-Visnu).

Temporary means the decaying progression of material bodily vessels the individual jiva-souls are passengers in, forced by the movement through material time's past, present and future and experiencing its side effects of birth, youth, middle age, old age, death, decay and the need for constant material maintenance.

Whereas in the spiritual world there is only the forever "eternal presence of Krsna" where everything is eternally fresh, youthful and never decomposes or fades away like material vessels and all matter does in the material world.

In the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (The Kingdom of God), the individual jiva-souls (devotees) are their spiritual bodily form, who no longer possess a material bodily decaying covering or vessel they are in as a passenger within Maha-Visnu's temporary material world.

All material bodily vessels or bodily containers, are part of the decaying fabric of material energy within the temporary material world, created by the dreaming Maha-Visnu for the individual jiva-souls to be housed as passengers in. All decaying matter that includes all material bodily vessels, take up 1/4 of the Spiritual Sky.

The other 3/4s of the Spiritual Sky are the permanent eternally youthful unlimited spiritual worlds (living anti-matter) where individual spiritual personalities serve God within the "eternal presence of Krsna," beyond the decaying influence of past, present and future that causes birth, youth, middle age, old age and death of a material bodily vessel the individual jiva-soul are the passenger in within the temporary material world created by the dreaming Maha-Visnu. 

The material world's "temporary material bodily vessel's pathways" are made of decaying matter that the individual jiva-souls are housed in as its passenger, confined to the temporary material world created by the dreaming Maha-Visnu.  

The individual jiva-souls travel through the pathways of the temporary material world "housed" within Maha-Visnu's dreams of material bodily vessels, as a passenger. 

These material bodily containers (decaying matter) confine the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) within them, housed as a passenger. Such material bodily vessels are strictly under the laws of material nature an experience birth, disease, old age, death within Maha-Visnu's mundane material world.

Each material bodily vessel (decaying matter) is made of material energy that the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) travel in as a passenger, moving along/through material time in its pathway of material bodily vessels. 

In other words, the individual jiva-souls are the temporary occupants or passengers housed on a pathway of decaying material bodily containers moving through material time's past, present and future, just like viewing the frame by frame by frame on a film canister that remains after watching the movie (after moving through material time) 

Technically "material dead energy" is dead because it is devoid of housing any individual jiva-souls (living units of anti-matter) is an all-one, all pervasive lifeless energy that houses the individual jiva-souls as a passenger in a material bodily vessel. 

In other words, the individual jiva-souls housed as a passenger in a material bodily vessel in the material world, are covered by material energy in the form of a material bodily vessel once they enter the temporary material world created by Maha-Visnu. 

This means all material bodily forms (decaying matter) that the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) are housed as passengers in, means they are not those material bodily vessels they are passengers in, which are also pathways the individual jiva-souls pass through/on/as a passenger through Maha-Visnu's dreams of the material world.  

The individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) are the traveller through that pathway of material bodily vessels (decaying matter), this is called the block material universe.  

All material bodily vessels the individual jiva-souls are housed in as a passengers, move under linear time which means they experience moving in one direction along that pathway of material bodily vessels. 

In this way, because of linear time means moving forward, the individual jiva-souls housed as the passenger in a material bodily vessel, experience birth, youth, getting old and experiencing forgetfulness as the material body they are in as the passenger, breaks down, decomposes and wears out, and eventually becoming unfit for the individual jiva-souls to occupy. 

Matter (decaying material energy) in the material world, under the view of linear-time, eventually breaks down to dust and fossils then merges back into the "oneness" of material energy (lifeless matter). 

All material bodily vessels are ultimately impersonal decaying matter when no longer possessed by the presence of life (individual jiva-souls) 

The individual jiva-souls (living individual units of anti-matter) enter a material bodily container however, the movement of ever material bodily vessel is caused by Maha-Visnu through His dreams.

Only the presence of the individual jiva-soul (living anti-matter) gives the appearance of "life" in the material world, giving all material bodily vessels to appear as alive when in fact only the individual jiva-souls housed in the material body as passengers is the only life. 

Of course there are millions of individual jiva-souls in a material bodily vessel as different species within cells, bacteria, viruses, stomach acids, mouth, on skin and in stool with a prominent individual jiva-soul being the main one who has the most control over the material body.   

The material bodily vessel is seen as moving and alive however, it only appears that way because of the presence of the individual jiva-souls within the material bodily vessels as the passenger explained above.  

As said above, the individual jiva-souls are living personalities of anti-matter, as an eternal spiritual bodily form in the spiritual world, but covered in the material world by a temporary decaying material bodily vessel. 

1 - "Matter" is lifeless dead energy in the material world that is what all material bodily vessels that the individual jiva-souls are passengers in, are made of.

2 - "Anti-matter" is Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His Visnu-tattva expansions who are individual persons, and simultaneously all-pervasive (all-one) with both the spiritual and material worlds, and Krsna’s minor separated expansions known as the marginal living entities (the individual jiva-souls). 

The individual spiritual unit's (individual jiva-soul) full potential is in the spiritual world which is their natural home and origin, in fact all life comes from the spiritual world meaning no life originates from the material world, the Body of Maha-Visnu, or the impersonal brahmajyoti where individual dormant (inactive) jiva-souls in their fallen condition artificially appearing as a "spiritual individual spark" (not all-pervasive) appearing as a collective effulgence surrounding Krsna's spiritual Bodily Form.  

The Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the Kingdom of God) are the natural home and eternal position of all individual jiva-souls where they live as an eternal spiritual bodily form in a place where everything is alive and never decays like mundane matter in the material world does. 

Material energy (lifeless matter) does not exist in the spiritual world (everything as individual units of anti-matter), this means all material bodily vessels (decaying matter) do not exist in the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (The Kingdom of God), they can only exist in the temporary material world created by Krsna's expansion Maha-Visnu.  

The individual jiva-souls are living personalities of anti-matter, whereas the material energy has no life, it is simply dead matter that the individual jiva-souls in the material world are confined too housed as a passenger, giving the appearance the material bodily vessels are living, no, it it the individual life inside them that is living.

The individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter as a unique eternal individual spiritual bodily form) who choose to enter the mundane material world by leaving the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (The Kingdom of God), become covered as a passenger housed in a temporary material bodily vessel (decaying matter) that contains (hides) their spiritual bodily identity.

All material bodily vessels in the material world are "hired" off Maha-Visnu provided to the individual jiva-souls to be passengers in, so they can pursue their desires to try and enjoy separately from Krsna.  

All material bodily vessels and their pathways through the material world originate from Maha-Visnu's Library of Unlimited Dreams that simultaneously match the desires of the individual jiva-souls, and are in sync with Maha-Visnu's dreams that covers every combination, scenario and desires the individual jiva-souls have.

The individual jiva-soul housed in a material bodily vessel as a passenger, continues their journey through the material world life after life in different material bodily container's pathways always as the passenger. 

The material bodily vessel can also be achieved from the accumulation of the reactions (karma) from acting out their desires in the human bodily form, creating pious and impious reactions however, only in a human material bodily form does the individual jiva-souls create Karma (due to free will) and not in the lower species of life where free will does not exist and only material bodily instincts exist.

There is no Karma for the individual jiva-souls in the lower species of life (8 million different species) where each species of life acts only on the instincts of eating, sleeping, mating and defending and not free will only found in the humans species.  

From the viewpoint of Maha-Visnu and the great sages and devotee's of Krsna/Visnu, they can see past, present and future in the material world all existing simultaneously, just like from above a roadway, one can see the beginning, middle and end of that roadway all at once.  

Similarly, from seeing above the movement of progressing through material time's, past, present and future, frame by frame like on a film canister, one can see that the individual jiva-souls are housed on a journey as the passenger in a material bodily vessel's pathway that belongs to Maha-Visnu's dreaming of the His temporary material world.

Maha-Visnu's "hired out" dream pathways of unlimited material bodily containers, are created by Him to give facilities and purpose to those individual jiva-souls to be passengers in, who choose to leave the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, and instead enter Maha-Visnu's material world made up of His dreams that includes all material bodily vessels and their pathways through material time the individual jiva-souls enter as the passenger.  

Because material energy is eternal, it is possible that the material desires of an individual jiva-soul who remains in the temporary material world long enough, to eventually come to a point over that endless span of eternity, to repeat their existence in the material world. 

Such a bizarre jurisdiction in the temporary material world usually is part of Lord Siva's interest who also wants to save these lost individual jiva-souls trapped in eternally repeating their existence in the mundane material world.  

Remember, the always changing material energy (lifeless energy) that covers the individual jiva-souls (living individual units of anti-matter) with a material bodily vessel, is eternal, this means the "decaying matter" that makes up the material world and always material bodily containers is "all-one all-pervasive lifeless energy" that has no beginning or end, and always exists as 25% of Krsna’s Spiritual Sky called Maha-Visnu's material creation.  

Every possible outcome the individual jiva-souls desire and dream over eternity, already exists within the dreams of Maha-Visnu. As said above, this means every possible combination of material elements that make up bodily vessels the individual jiva-souls are housed in as the passenger already exist within Mahā-Viṣṇu's dreams of the material world.

If the individual jiva-soul foolishly stays long enough in the material world (an almost eternity), every combination of material elements would eventually be exhausted to the point they would again repeat themselves. 

In other words, if an individual jiva-soul who chooses to remain in the material world for an almost eternity, then it is possible for them to experience this phenomenon because the individual jiva-souls are eternal living entities without beginning or end.

So what is really going on?

Even though the material energy is temporary, where all material bodily vessels that houses the individual jiva-souls as the passenger, are always in a constant state of decay and decline, in need of endless maintenance due to the influence of material time's past, present and future, this impersonal material time is constantly rearranging its composition of material energy, changing its appearance and always on the move that houses the individual jiva-souls in material bodily vessels that all belong to the dreams of Maha-Visnu.

In this way, the material bodily vessel (decaying matter) that houses the individual jiva-soul (living anti-matter), as a passenger, are clearly not that material bodily container they are in.

When the material bodily vessel decay and destroyed at the end of its linear time through its journey over past, present and future, the individual jiva-souls within are released due to the material vessel they are in wears out and becomes unit to occupy as its passenger any more, and moves on to another suitable material bodily vessel and its pathway however, the decaying material energy only changes and never disappears.

Under Maha-Visnu's the block material universe viewpoint, one can see above the movement through material time's past, present and future, just like one can see the beginning, middle and end of a roadway all at the same time.

Experiencing linear time's past, present and future is only in the material world, where individual jiva-soul are housed in a material bodily vessel as the passenger, experiencing the material journey through birth, youth, middle age, old age and death, which are the dreams of Maha-Visnu in His material world.  

From a higher viewpoint, above the influence of material mundane time, all material bodily pathways moving through past, present and future, all existing simultaneously in Maha-Visnu's dreams of the material world known as the block material universe.

The individual jiva-souls pass along those pathways made of material bodily vessels like one passes on an already made roadway.

Many have asked, could the all activities of a material bodily vessel one chooses from Maha-Visnu's dreams to occupy as the passenger, continuously happen in the material universe  with another group of individual jiva-souls playing that same part also moving along through material time?

The answer is yes, in fact that is exactly what's going on.

This is because past, present and future are always there happening simultaneously as the permanent fixture in the fabric of material time.

This means all material bodily vessels occupied by the individual jiva-souls as its passenger, are a permanent fixture of the material energy, like a roadway is a permanent pathway through a city, or like seeing the frame after frame on a movie camera reel always existing after one views them.

Many individual jiva-souls travel on that same roadway of material bodily vessels, along that same pathway of material bodily containers moving through past, present and future in Maha-Visnu's material world, experiencing the same journey in the material world in those material bodily vessels others have also travelled in/through.

This is the real meaning of what Maha-Visnu's block material universe is.

Lord Brahma's material bodily vessel is also a "hired" position or post in the material world that many individual jiva-souls can experience if they are qualified to enter that material bodily vessel or post.

All material bodily vessels the individual jiva-souls are passengers in, are "hired" from Maha-Visnu (God) from His vast dreams. 

This further means those individual jiva-souls with the right qualifications can experience any material bodily vessel they desire, but only if they deserve it.

To enter a material bodily vessel as a traveller on a journey through the temporary material world, all individual jiva-soul must first qualify to enter a particular material bodily vessel created by Maha-Visnu as its passenger that is in-sync with their own desires.

This also takes into account karma, which means one's past good and bad actions will force one to accept a material bodily vessel they deserve out of 8 million 400 thousand species in the material world. 

The individual jiva-souls must always be qualified to enter a particular material bodily vessel, pious or impious, or any material bodily container they choose to be its passenger, based on what they deserve, desire, rewarded with and punished with. 

Once in the material world after leaving the spiritual world, the individual jiva-souls must eventually "hire" a material bodily vessel from Maha-Visnu's dreams that simultaneously match their own desires or karma (the results of past good and bad deeds if they are already in the material world).  

The material bodily vessel's pathway the individual jiva-souls are passengers in/on, are a permanent fixture in the material energy that moves through past, present and future. This means every step along the pathway of material bodily containers exists eternally as Maha-Visnu's block material universe that the individual jiva-souls journey on through the material world on that pathway of material bodily vessels as the passenger.

The material bodily vessels created by Maha-Visnu are not living persons, they are decaying containers that unlimited individual jiva-souls occupy as a passenger including bacteria, viruses, bugs, cells etc., used by them as a vehicle where one individual jiva-soul situated within the heart is the prominent individual jiva-soul housed as the passenger in that material bodily vessel.

This prominent individual person in the decaying material bodily container, have the intelligence to advance in spiritual life and return back home back to Godhead, all other individual jiva-souls in the material bodily vessel, are at the early stages of their evolution travelling through 8 million 400 thousand species of material bodily existence. 

In other words, all other individual jiva-souls living in the various material bodily parts, are trapped in the lower species confined to the material bodies of various bugs, cells, stool, blood, brain substance etc that are also in the material bodily vessel.

The individual jiva-soul (living individual units of anti-matter) originated from their real home in the spiritual world, the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (The Kingdom of God).

The material bodily vessel is made of material elements (decaying matter) that the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) are covered by and travels in as a passenger while confined to the temporary material world.

As said above, the individual jiva-soul (living anti-matter) is the real individual person as a eternal spiritual bodily form, and not the material bodily vessel which is a decaying container that only carries the individual jiva-souls as its passenger. 

All a material bodily vessels or containers are not a living person, they are a decaying coverings or containers made of material energy that house the eternal individual jiva-soul in it as the passenger.

The fact is, as said above, every cell within the material bodily vessel also houses an individual jiva-soul however, their consciousness is not developed and rank among the lower almost inactive species, unlike the prominent individual jiva-soul whose intelligence is on the human platform and stand out individual jiva-soul housed in that material bodily vessel.  

So, who really are the famous and infamous personalities like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, John Kennedy etc.? 

Actually the answer is no-one because each material bodily vessel that the individual jiva-souls are in as its passenger, are not a living individual person at all, it is a decaying material container made of temporary material energy that is occupied by the individual jiva-souls housed as the a passenger. 

All material bodily vessel's pathways are "hired" from Maha-Visnu's dreams of the material world and always remain His property and not the property of the individual jiva-souls who are in them as passenger.

The fact is, it is possible that any individual jiva-soul, as long as they qualify, can experience the material bodily vessel of a Hitler, or Stalin, Churchill etc., or a material bodily vessel similar if desired, deserved and qualified to enter.

This means over eternity, many individual jiva-souls have also travelled those same pathways of material bodily vessels which are a permanent fixture within the dreams of Maha-Visnu's material world. 

The dreams of Maha-Visnu are also called the "block material universe" which means past, present and future always exist as a movement of material bodily vessels existing through every stage of all material time with different individual jiva-souls passing through those pathways as the passenger of those material bodily vessels.

In fact as explained above, an unlimited number of individual jiva-souls experience those material bodily pathways of the rich, famous and infamous whose material bodily vessels they occupy as its passenger, are a permanent fixtures in the fabric of time that moves on a journey through past, present and future in the material world. 

All material bodily pathways (vessels) are "hired" from Maha-Visnu's dreams, just like one reads a "loaned-out" book in a Library that is always available to others for loan also similarly, Maha-Visnu's "Library of material dreams" are available to every individual jiva-soul who choose to enter the material world.  

As explained above, each material bodily pathway (decaying material bodily vessel) the individual jiva-souls are on as a passenger, are from the dreams of Maha-Visnu.

Maha-Visnu's dreams, that includes all material bodily vessels the individual jiva-souls are housed in as the passenger, are a permanent fixture within His material energies. 

Within Maha-Visnu's dreams of the material world, exists unlimited material bodily vehicles for the individual jiva-souls to travel in as the passenger however, no individual jiva-souls are created by Maha-Visnu, or come from His material world, or the impersonal inactive brahmajyoti, they all enter His material world after leaving the spiritual worlds of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana.  

However, as explained above, only less than 10% of individual jiva-souls voluntarily choose to leave the spiritual worlds of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the Kingdom of God) and enter the temporary material world (decaying matter) where they "hire" a material bodily vessel and its pathway (made of material bodies) from Maha-Visnu's "dreams" and simultaneously experience their own dreams (desires) that are in sync with Maha-Visnu's dreams.

In other words, the material bodily vessel (decaying matter) that houses the individual jiva-soul as a passenger, is not a living spiritual person, it is a decaying material container that contains the individual jiva-soul within it. 

The individual jiva-souls without the restricted covering of being housed in a material bodily vessel, is an eternal spiritual bodily form whose natural home and origins is the spiritual world. 

Kṛṣṇa and all of His various expansions, both Visnu-tattva and jiva-tattva or the individual jiva-souls, originates from their eternal natural home in the spiritual world, only from there do they enter the temporary material world, no life originates from the material world.  

The material bodily vessel (decaying matter) is the outer material covering that houses the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) as a passenger on a journey through the temporary material world that are the dreams of the sleeping Maha-Visnu.

The individual living person (individual jiva-soul) are in each material bodily vessel and its pathway as a passenger within the decaying material world, they can enter 8 million 400 thousand different material bodily forms (species) in the temporary material world as explained above.

The individual jiva-souls (eternal living individual units of anti-matter) are housed within material bodily decaying containers. The individual jiva-souls are not these material bodily vessels they travel in through the material world.

The individual jiva-souls original home and position is in the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana where everything is living as individual units of anti-matter.     

However, Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His direct expansions are both an individual Person as a spiritual Bodily Form, and the "all-pervasive" God existing everywhere, which means He is seen as one and everything simultaneously. 

This means Krsna, His Visnu-tattva expansions and the individual jiva-souls (all anti-material beings) are not from the temporary decaying material world, the impersonal inactive brahmajyoti, or from the Body of Maha-Visnu, the latter being a direct expansion of Kṛṣṇa who creates the decaying lifeless material world. 

All life that enters the decaying material world (dead matter), comes from the spiritual world (living individual units of anti-matter).

In the material world, all material bodily vessels and their pathways through past, present and future, house the individual jiva-souls as the passenger. They are not those material bodily vessels.

It is important to understand that the individual jiva-souls (eternal living individual units of anti-matter) original and natural home is the spiritual world (the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana) that are beyond the mundane decaying lifeless material world. 

In the material world the individual jiva-souls live as a passenger contained in a temporary material bodily vessel that belongs to Maha-Visnu who dreams the material world. All material bodily containers are "hired" from Him.

In the temporary material world, the individual jiva-souls who chose to leave the spiritual world, must go to Maha-Visnu and "hire" from Him a suitable material bodily vessel and its pathway. 

The most advanced human forms are Vaisnavas who are strictly vegetarians and do not consume meat, fish, eggs, bugs, coffee, British tea, onions and garlic. They live off prasadam (food prepared for Krsna's pleasure) which is a vegetarian and dairy diet. As a child Krsna is a cowherd boy who loves having various milk sweets and curd vegetables preparations. 

The other moral principles followed by Vaisnava devotees of Krsna is consuming no intoxications like alcohol, cigarettes and mind expanding drugs, no gambling, and no illicit sexual relationships  including homosexuality which has sadly become a wide spread degraded destructive vice prominent in Kali-yuga.

Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (the founder of ISKCON) viewed homosexuality and non-procreative sexual acts as contrary to Vedic injunctions and spiritual advancement.

Srila Prabhupada categorized homosexual relations as illicit sexual relations, stating that sex life in Vedic culture is strictly restricted to marriage and solely for the purpose of procreating children. 

In room conversations and letters from 1975, he described homosexuality as an aberration from ideal character and spiritual discipline, urging disciples to abandon it in favor of spiritual service.

Within ISKCON and traditional Gaudiya Vaisnava philosophy, marriage (grihastha-ashrama) is viewed as a responsible social and spiritual institution meant for raising children in Krsna consciousness.

Because same-sex unions do not fulfill the requirement of procreation within a sanctioned religious framework, Prabhupada did not endorse or recognize same-sex marriage and considered addiction to it as part of the material diseased condition.

While Prabhupada himself held a traditional and restrictive view on the matter, subsequent discussions among ISKCON leaders and scholars after his passing have occasionally debated how to pastorally care for gay and lesbian members without compromising traditional varnasrama or spiritual principles.

Ancient Vedic scriptures do not record same-sex marriages existing during the Satya-yuga (Golden Age of morality). 

According to traditional Vedic cosmology and epics like the Mahabharata, the formal institution of marriage (vivaha) and its customs of weddings was not yet established in Satya-yuga.

Different scriptural traditions address marriage in the Satya-yuga across ancient Vedic texts in distinct ways.

According to accounts in the Mahabharata (specifically in a dialogue between Kunti and Pandu), the early golden age was a time before formal marriage and wedding ceremonies existed. Men and women interacted freely without lifelong institutional bonds, and children were raised communally rather than belonging to a specific family lineage.

In Vedic lore, marriage was introduced later by the sage Shvetaketu to establish social order, fidelity, and clear lines of inheritance and paternity. 

Because formal marriage as a social and religious contract did not exist in the Satya-yuga, heterosexual marriage weddings was not practiced in that period.

When formal marriage (vivaha) developed in later eras, texts framed it primarily around procreation, family continuity, and fulfilling household duties (grihastha). However, ancient Vedic literature does acknowledge that diverse sexualities and non-traditional unions did exist. Vedic texts categorize human nature into three types: 

1 - Male (pums-prakriti), 

2 - Female (stri-prakriti), 

3 - Third sex (tritiya-prakriti). 

The concept of a third gender (tritiya-prakriti) is well-documented across in the Mahabharata, and Puranas, where it applies that these individuals do exist within the material world.

Later texts in Kali-yuga like the 4th-century Kama Sutra explicitly mention people of the third sex forming deeply committed, affectionate partnerships but considered illicit and degraded by many Vedic leaders and scholars and a symptom of Kali-yuga.  

While traditional legal texts (Dharma Shastras) define orthodox Vedic marriage strictly as a procreative union between a man and a woman, other philosophical traditions prominant in this age of Kali-yuga, view marriage as a spiritual bond between individual jiva-souls (atman) (ignoring one's material bodily status as being in a male or female material bodily vessel) which is really a symptom of Kali-yuga that did not occur in Satya-yuga. 

According to the Srimad Bhagavatam, the human residents of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka Vrindavana are explicitly described in male and female transcendental forms, with no direct scriptural mention of a third gender (tritiya-prakriti) existing in that spiritual realm.

The Third Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam details the nature of the spiritual world and its inhabitants. In Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 3 Chapter 15 text 20, the residents are described as traveling in airplanes alongside their female consorts. Famous eternal residents such as the gatekeepers Jaya and Vijaya also hold distinct male forms.

Unlike the material world, the male and female inhabitants of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana are completely free from material lust or sex impulses. Their spiritual bodily forms in their full potential are meant solely to glorify and serve Lord Visnu and Krsna 

In Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 3 Chapter 15 text 21, the women of Vaikuntha are described as possessing beauty equal to the goddess of fortune, Lakshmi, as they engage in devotional service.

In Vaisnava theology, the pure individual jiva-soul (atma) is fundamentally beyond material gender categories because the individual jiva-soul can voluntary appear in any spiritual bodily form they choose, male, female, cow herd boy or girl, a bird, monkey, horse, Cow, a blade of grass, tree, chair, flag pole, chariot, a cloud in the sky - everything is individual life (anti-matter) in the spiritual world.

One's spiritual bodily form can change based on the way one chooses to serve Krsna as. All individual jīva-souls are considered prakriti (the enjoyed or female) in relation to the Lord as the sole Purusha (Krsna/Viṣṇu the Supreme Enjoyer as male).

Within the Srimad Bhagavatam, Lord Visnu manifests as the female enchantress Mohini in the material world to distribute nectar to the demigods, demonstrating divine fluidity outside of the Vaikuntha planets. And Krsna wanted the experiences of loving exchanges with another and expanded Himself as Srimati Radharani, His eternal consort known as the Divine couple. 

Who is Srimati Radharani?

Srila Prabhupada - "I offer my respects to Rādhārāṇī, whose bodily complexion is like molten gold and who is the Queen of Vṛndāvana. You are the daughter of King Vṛṣabhānu very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa. So if we approach Kṛṣṇa through Rādhārāṇī, through the mercy of Rādhārāṇī, then it becomes very easy. 

If Rādhārāṇī recommends that "This devotee is very nice," then Kṛṣṇa immediately accepts, however fool I may be. Because it is recommended by Rādhārāṇī, Kṛṣṇa accepts. Therefore, in Vṛndāvana you'll find all the devotees, they're chanting more Rādhārāṇī's name than Kṛṣṇa's. Wherever you'll go, you'll find the devotees are addressing, "Jaya Rādhe, Jaya Radhe!" You'll find this still in Vṛndāvana, they are always glorifying Rādhārāṇī. They're more interested, worshiping Rādhārāṇī because however fallen I may be, if some way or other I can please Rādhārāṇī, then it is very easy for me to understand Kṛṣṇa. 

But if one foolishly go by the speculative process to understand Kṛṣṇa, it will take many, many live times. But if you take devotional service and try to please Rādhārāṇī, then Kṛṣṇa will be gotten very easily. Because Rādhārāṇī can deliver Kṛṣṇa, She is such a great devotee - the emblem of mahā-bhāgavata. 

Even Kṛṣṇa cannot understand what is Rādhārāṇī's quality even though He says vedāhaṁ samatītāni (BG 7.26), "I know everything," still, He fails to understand Srimati Rādhārāṇī - Rādhā is so great.

Actually, Kṛṣṇa knows everything. In order to understand Rādhārāṇī, Kṛṣṇa accepted the position of Rādhārāṇī. Kṛṣṇa wanted to understand the potency of Rādhārāṇī. 

Kṛṣṇa thought that "I am full, I am complete in every respect, but still, I want to understand Rādhārāṇī, Why?" This propensity made Kṛṣṇa obliged to accept the propensities of Rādhārāṇī, to understand Kṛṣṇa, Himself.

These are of course, very deep transcendental subject matters and a great science. One who is advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and well conversant with the śāstras only can understand this. But still, we can discuss this with the help of śāstra. When Kṛṣṇa wanted to understand Himself, He took the tendency of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. And that is Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalitam

Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Kṛṣṇa, but He has accepted the propensities of Rādhārāṇī. As Rādhārāṇī is always in feelings of separation of Kṛṣṇa, similarly, in the position of Rādhārāṇī, Lord Caitanya was feeling separation of Kṛṣṇa. That is the teachings of Lord Caitanya, feelings of separation, not meeting. The process of devotional service taught by Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His disciplic succession is how to feel separation from Kṛṣṇa. That is Rādhārāṇī's position, always feeling the separation." (Radhastami, Srimati Radharani's Appearance Day, London, Aug 29, 1971)

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Srila Prabhupada - "Regarding your question about our relationship with Srimati Radharani, She is the internal energy, we are marginal energy (individual jiva-souls). Marginal means sometimes internal (in the spiritual world), and sometimes external (in the material world). When we are under the internal energy, that is our normal life, and when we are under the external energy, that is our abnormal life. Therefore, we are called marginal energy; we can be either this way or that way. But being qualitatively one with the purusa, our tendency is to remain in the internal energy. Being in the external energy is our artificial attempt to enjoy." (Letter to Lilavati, Allston, Mass 25 April, 1969)

Guest - "What category is Radharani in?"

Srila Prabhupada - "She is śakti, Cit-śakti. Bhagavān ke pleasure potency. Śakti, śakti-tattva, Śaktimān. Bhagavān is Śaktimān, and that śakti is Rādhārāṇī or Sītā or Lakṣmī. Durgā is also śakti, another feature of Rādhārāṇī."

Guest - "Śakti in original form is Rādhā?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes," (Lecture CC, Madhya 13.65)

Srila Prabhupada - "Originally cit-śakti. That cit-śakti is expanding. Just like we are rāmādi mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan (Bs. 5.39). The verse rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan is the second line of Brahma-saṁhitā 5.39, a primary text in the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition. The full verse and translation by Srila Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvati Thakura- 

"rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan nānāvatāram akarod bhuvaneṣu kintu kṛṣṇaḥ svayaṁ samabhavat paramaḥ pumān yo govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi."

Translation- 

"I worship Govinda [Krsna], the primeval Lord, who manifested Himself personally as Krsna and the different avatāras in the world in the forms of Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Vāmana, etc., as His subjective portions." (Brahma-saṁhitā 5.39)

Core meaning of text above-

The Supreme Lord eternally exists in innumerable expansion forms such as Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Varāha, Vāmana, and Nārāyaṇa. These incarnations descend as partial or plenary expansions (kalā) that possess the same transcendental power and potency as the source.

Krsna the Original Person (kṛṣṇaḥ svayam): 

"While all these forms are non-different from the Supreme, Lord Krsna is identified as the original, primeval Supreme Personality of Godhead (svayaṁ bhagavān/ādi-puruṣa) from whom all expansions emanate."

 Srila Prabhupada - "Kalā means part and parcel. So we are also part and parcel, but we are very small part and parcel. But rāmādi mūrti, they are bigger part and parcel. Just like if you throw one brick on the floor, so there will be so many small particles, big particles. They are all part and parcel of the brick, but one part very small atomic part, and one big part, this part, this part, then this part, then this part. So Kṛṣṇa is the origin, and everyone is part and parcel. Some of them are bigger and some of them are smaller. So Viṣṇu-tattva is almost like Kṛṣṇa."

Guest - "Like Kṛṣṇa?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "Others, they are very small. So according to the size, or according to the power..."

Guest - "Power."

Srila Prabhupāda - "The part and parcel exercises his position, some of them are Viṣṇu-tattva, some of them are Jīva-tattva (individual jiva-souls), some of them are Śakti-tattva and some of them para-tattva. Like that."

Guest - "What is Sakti-tattva?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Sakti-tattva is the internal potencies personified like Rādhārāṇī, Sītā, or Lakṣmī, as well as empowered beings (śaktyāveśa-avatāras) and material energies like Durgā. Under the philosophy of acintya-bhedābheda (inconceivable simultaneous oneness and difference), Śakti is simultaneously one with and distinct from the energetic source. Śakti-tattva is the internal and external potencies or energies belonging to the Supreme Lord (Śaktimān-tattva, such as Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu)." 

Guest - "What is Para-tattva?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "Para-tattva is Bhagavān. Para-tattva means Kṛṣṇa, Rāma, Nārāyaṇa, Viṣṇu. These are all para-tattva. Bhagavān avatāra, rāmā, nṛsiṁha, varāha, kūrma, vāmana, daśāvatāra, all avatāra. Sakti-tattva is also material energy, aparā-tattva, matter. Similarly, cit-tattva means the spiritual world. The individual jiva-souls, although they are in the material world, they belong to the spiritual world. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, apareyam, this material energy is inferior however, beyond this material world is another, superior energy that includes jīva-bhūta (refers to the individual jiva-soul (ātmā) that has became conditioned, and entangled housed as a passenger within a material bodily vessel in the material world, and the individual jiva-souls [jiva-tattva] in their full potential in the spiritual world." (Room Conversation, Nov 11, 1971, New Delhi, India)

Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes because He is everything and everything is in Him. 

Krsna is fully satisfied in Himself, that includes enjoying through all of His expansions that are His parts and parcels. It is not that Krsna is just in our hearts, the fact is all Visnu-tattva expansions, Siva-tattva expansions and individual jiva-souls (jiva-tattva) are part and parcel of Krsna.

In other words, Krsna is never alone, just like the sun-disc is never alone due to the presence of the surrounding sun-rays. Krsna is compared to the sun-disc and the different types of individual living entities are compared to the sun-rays.

The sun-disc and the sun-rays do not exist without each other, similarly Krsna always exists surrounded by His parts and parcels (the individual jiva-souls).  In this way, Krsna being the Supreme Lord is simultaneously one with all that there is, yet different and independent from all of His parts and parcels too.

Krsna's eternal consort Srimati Rādhārāṇī is the manifestation of His pleasure potency who Krsna created as a direct expansion of Himself just so He could experience a "two-way" unpredictable exchange of loving emotions and reciprocation with a women. Krsna knows that love can never be experienced and expand with just one, there must be two.

Explaining how Srimati Radharani appeared?

Srila Prabhupada - "When Krsna wants to be attracted by a woman, He has to create such a woman from His own energy. That woman is Rādhārāṇī." (SB, Canto 3 Ch 31 text 38, Purport)

Kṛṣṇa cannot enjoy anything that is internally different from Himself, therefore Rādhā and Śrī Kṛṣṇa are identical. 

Srila Prabhupada - "Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are "one and the same", but They have assumed two bodies. Thus They enjoy each other, tasting the mellows of love. The two transcendentalists Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are a puzzle to materialists. The description of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa from the diary of Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī is a condensed explanation, but one needs great spiritual insight to understand the mystery of these two personalities where one is enjoying as two. Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the potent factor, and Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the internal potency. According to Vedānta philosophy, there is no difference between the potent and the potency; they are identical. We cannot differentiate between one and the other, any more than we can separate fire from heat. Everything in the Absolute is inconceivable in relative existence. Therefore in relative cognizance it is very difficult to assimilate this truth of the oneness between the potent and the potency. 

The philosophy of inconceivable oneness and difference propounded by Lord Caitanya is the only source of understanding for such intricacies of transcendence. In fact, Rādhārāṇī is the internal potency of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and She eternally intensifies the pleasure of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Impersonalists cannot understand this without the help of a mahā-bhāgavata (great) devotee. The very name “Rādhā” suggests that Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is eternally the topmost mistress of the comforts of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. As such, She is the medium transmitting the individual jiva-souls' service to Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Devotees in Vṛndāvana therefore seek the mercy of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī in order to be recognized as loving servitors of Śrī Kṛṣṇa." (CC, Adi 4.56, Translation and Purport)

Srila Prabhupada - "Among the gopīs, Śrīmatī Rādhikā (Radharani) is the foremost. She surpasses all in beauty, in good qualities, in good fortune and, above all, in love." (CC, Ādi 4.214)

Srila Prabhupada - "The beauty of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s eyes forcibly devours the beauty of newly grown blue lotus flowers, and the beauty of Her face surpasses that of an entire forest of fully blossomed lotuses. Her bodily luster seems to place even gold into a painful situation. Thus the wonderful, unprecedented beauty of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is awakening in Vṛndāvana." (CC, Antya 1.169, Purport)

Srila Prabhupada - "The beauty of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is described as follows: "Her eyes defeat the attractive features of the eyes of the cakorī bird. When one sees the face of Rādhārāṇī, he immediately hates the beauty of the moon. Her bodily complexion defeats the beauty of gold. Thus, let us all look upon the transcendental beauty of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī." (Nectar of Devotion, Ch 44)

Srila Prabhupada - "In the Vidagdha-mādhava, second Act, verse 31, Kṛṣṇa tells His friend, "My dear friend, what a wonderful thing it is that since I have seen the beautiful lotus eyes of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, I have developed a tendency to spit on the moon and the lotus flower!' "(Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 50)

This statement above from Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmi, illustrates a transcendental mixture of conjugal love (madhurya-rasa) and ghastliness (bhibhatsa), showing how ordinary standards of beauty (like the moon or the lotus) pale completely in comparison to the supreme beauty of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī's eyes.

Srila Prabhupada -"There is no comparison to Radharani's beauty and the luster of Her transcendental body. The so-called beauty of the moon has fallen on the ground in the presence of Radharani's beauty." (From Srila Narottama das Thakura)

Srila Prabhupada - "Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s affection, Her exquisite beauty and good behavior, Her artistic dancing and chanting and Her poetic compositions are all so attractive that they attract the mind of Kṛṣṇa, who attracts the mind of everyone in the universe." (CC, Madhya 17.212)

Srila Prabhupada - "Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has stated that devotional service attracts even Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa attracts everyone, but devotional service attracts Kṛṣṇa. The symbol of devotional service in the highest degree is Rādhārāṇī. Kṛṣṇa is called Madana-mohana, which means that He is so attractive that He can defeat the attraction of thousands of Cupids. But Rādhārāṇī is still more attractive, for She can even attract Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, devotees call Her Madana-mohana-mohinī, the attractor of the attractor of Cupid." (Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 1)

Guest - "Srila Prabhupāda, are we expansions of Rādhā?"

Srila Prabhupada - "No, Rādhā is the internal potency, we are marginal potency (individual jiva-souls). Of course, originally, in that sense, everything is Kṛṣṇa's expansion. Sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma. But even there are expansions... That is the difference between Māyāvāda philosophy and Vaiṣṇava philosophy. Caitanya Mahāprabhu teaches "acintya bhedābheda." We are always simultaneously one and different, always. We should remember we are expansion of Kṛṣṇa, we are expansion of Rādhā also because Rādhā is also expansion of Kṛṣṇa. But still, different. That is our philosophy - "One and different simultaneously - Acintya bhedābheda."

Caitanya Mahāprabhu's philosophy is "inconceivable simultaneously one and different". This is explained in the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad Gita As It Is. The energies and the energetic is the same. Śakti-śaktimator abheda. Just like sun and the sunshine, they are the same. There is no difference, but the molecules of the sunshine particles, that is not equal to the sun. These truths we shall always remember. Acintyāḥ khalu ye bhāvāḥ. Therefore these are inconceivable. We are simultaneously one with Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā, and at the same time different." (Lecture BG, Ch 4 text 5, Montreal, June 10, 1968)

All the devotees of Krsna must win the attention of Radharani to get Krsna's attention, as all service to Krsna only reaches Krsna by going through Her. Krsna divided Himself into "two" (Radha and Krsna) just so He could experience loving exchanges in a "two-way" exchange. For even Krsna, love can never exist when there is just "one", there must be His expansions like Srimati Radharani and His Visnu-tattva and jiva-tattva expansions. Krsna wanted to experience loving emotions and affection with a women, this is why He divided Himself into "two" - Radha and Krsna, just so He could experience loving exchanges.

Devotee - "Śrīla Prabhupāda, you spoke of inferior energy and superior energy. Those are two general categories. Are there other categories of energies besides that, and specifically how could we understand Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "She is spiritual energy."

Devotee - "But is She an individual or?"

Srila Prabhupada - "No, no, no, She is Kṛṣṇa. If everything is Kṛṣṇa and Rādhārāṇī is not Kṛṣṇa, what is that? Kṛṣṇa. He (She) is Kṛṣṇa. She is Kṛṣṇa's pleasure potency."

Devotee - "She is not jīva-soul?"

Srila Prabhupada - "No, no, no, She is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa divided Himself into His energy and Himself. That energy, original spiritual energy, is Rādhārāṇī. That is stated by Jīva Gosvāmī. Rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmāt. When Kṛṣṇa wants pleasure, He cannot accept the inferior energy. The same superior energy, Kṛṣṇa, is divided into two. That is Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. And again, when they unite, that is Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Divided, they are Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, and united, Caitanya Mahāprabhu. 

Śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya rādhā-kṛṣṇa nahe anya. Anya means another. 

So Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is combination of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. And when they are divided into two, that is Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa.

Rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmād ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau, śrī-caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ caikyam āptam." Cc. Ādi 1.5. These are the conclusion. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa combination. But He is playing the part of Rādhārāṇī to understand Kṛṣṇa. This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Rādhārāṇī is the chief gopī and all Her young girl friends, they are also gopīs." (Lecture SB, Canto 2 Ch 1 text 1-5, Melb, Australia June 26, 1974).

Caitanya Caritamrta - "Rādhikā (Rādhārāṇī) is the transformation of Kṛṣṇa’s love. She is His internal energy called hlādinī." (CC Adi 4.59, Translation)

Srila Prabhupada - "Srimati Radharani's mind, senses and body are steeped in love for Kṛṣṇa. She is Kṛṣṇa’s own energy, and She helps Him in His pastimes. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is as fully spiritual as Kṛṣṇa. No one should consider Her to be material. She is definitely not like the conditioned souls, who have material bodies, gross and subtle, covered by material senses. She is all-spiritual, and both Her body and Her mind are of the same spiritual embodiment. Because Her body is spiritual, Her senses are also spiritual. Thus Her body, mind and senses fully shine in love of Kṛṣṇa. 

She is the personified hlādinī-śakti (the pleasure-giving energy of the Lord’s internal potency), and therefore She is the only source of enjoyment for Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Śrī Kṛṣṇa cannot enjoy anything that is internally different from Him. Therefore Rādhā and Śrī Kṛṣṇa are identical. The sandhinī portion of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s internal potency has manifested the all-attractive form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and the same internal potency, in the hlādinī feature, has presented Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, who is the attraction for the all-attractive. No one can match Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī in the transcendental pastimes of Śrī Kṛṣṇa." (CC, Adi 4.71, Translation and Purport)

Caitanya Caritamrta - "Just as the fountainhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa, is the cause of all incarnations, so Śrī Rādhā is the cause of all these consorts." (CC, Adi 4.76, Translation)

Caitanya Caritamrta - "Rādhā is the one who gives pleasure to Govinda, and She is also the enchantress of Govinda. She is the be-all and end-all of Govinda, and the crest jewel of all His consorts." (CC, Adi 4.82, Translation)

Caitanya Caritamrta - "The transcendental goddess Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the direct counterpart of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. She is the central figure for all the goddesses of fortune. She possesses all the attractiveness to attract the all-attractive Personality of Godhead. She is the primeval internal potency of the Lord." (CC, Adi 4.83, Translation)

Srila Prabhupada - "When Krsna wants to be attracted by a woman, He has to create such a woman from His own energy. That woman is Rādhārāṇī. It is explained by the Gosvāmīs that Rādhārāṇī is the manifestation of the pleasure potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When the Supreme Lord wants to derive transcendental pleasure, He has to create a woman from His internal potency and that women is Srimati Radharani." (SB, Canto 3 Ch 31 text 38, Purport)

As said above, Krsna divided Himself into "two" just so He could experience loving exchanges and reciprocation with a women and gave Her the name Srimati Radharani. The lesson here is love can only exist when there are "two" involved in a loving relationship of cooperative exchanges. 

Srila Prabhupada - ''We have got the propensity to love. Love means somebody else. Love cannot be "one" or love cannot be executed only one, there must be another one. I love somebody; somebody loves me, there must be lover, there must be beloved, and the transaction, then love is there." (Lecture SB, Canto 1 Ch 2 text 6, Delhi, Nov 12, 1973)

Srila Prabhupāda – ''Love means two persons, then there is exchange, then there is love. I must deal with you open-hearted, you must deal with me open-hearted, then there is love. So if you want to love Kṛṣṇa, God, then these things must be there." (Aug 9, 1976, Tehran)

Krsna is always complete in Himself and is never alone because within Krsna is everything and everything is within Him, therefore Krsna becomes two, Radha and Krsna, and expands as all other living entities who are in different categories. 

Krsna is always enjoying in Vrindavana with His consort Srimati Radharani, who Krsna created by dividing Himself into two, just so He could experience loving exchanges with a women. In this way Krsna is fully complete as Himself and enjoying simultaneously as His unlimited expansions who are all within Him. 

In other words, as said above, just like the sun-disc is only fully complete surrounded by the sun-rays (sunshine), similarly Krsna's full potential of loving expressions is only naturally fully complete, when surrounded by His devotees headed by Srimati Radharani. This is what it means when it is said Krsna is fully complete within Himself as the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes.

All living entities are all Sakti-tattva (energies of Krsna) however, there are different categories. Although basically there are only two types of living entities, Visnu-tattva and jiva-tattva as Prabhupada explains.

Srila Prabhupada – "In the Padma Purana, wherein it is said that there are two kinds of spiritual entities; one is called the individual jiva-soul (jiva-tattva), and the other is called the Supreme Lord (Visnu-tattva)." (87th Chapter of Krsna Book, "Prayers by the Personified Vedas.")

Radharani represents the category known as sakti-tattva, she is no different than Krsna, created by Krsna so He could experience intimate loving exchanges and unique emotions with a women as explained above.

Srimati Radharani does not have 64 transcendental qualities like Krsna; instead, She possesses 25 primary transcendental qualities.

According to Gaudiya Vaisnava philosophy (as cited in works like Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu and teachings of Srila Prabhupada.

Lord Krsna possesses 64 prominent transcendental qualities in full (100%).

Srimati Radharani possesses 25 principal transcendental qualities. Despite having fewer numbered qualities by count, Her sweetness and devotion are so supreme that She is famously described as having the unique power to control even Krsna Himself. 

Srila Prabhupada explains that Radharani represents the internal energy or potency and is Krsna's duplicate expansion.

Child Krsna meets baby Radharani for the first time.

The Divine Appearance of Srimati Radharani who is a little younger than Krsna.

The Puranas relate a story concerning the divine appearance of Srimati Radharani as follows-

One day, Vrishabhanu Maharaja, who was living at Ravel at that time, went to the bank of Yamuna at around noon to take a midday bath.

As he approached the bank of the Yamuna, he saw a golden lotus flower floating on the water and shining brightly like a thousand suns. 

Vrishabhanu immediately waded into the river and when he came near to the golden lotus flower, he beheld the most beautiful and radiant form of baby girl lying within the petals of the lotus.

At that same moment, Lord Brahma suddenly appeared in the sky and speaking in a grave voice, informed Vrishabhanu that in his previous life, Vrishabhanu and his wife Kirtida had performed great austerities in order to get the consort of Lord Visnu as their daughter.

Lord Brahma told Vrishabhanu that this girl was the origin of the goddess Lakshmi and that he should take great care of Her. 

Lord Brahma then placed the baby girl in the arms of Vrishabhanu who became overjoyed, and after taking permission from Lord Brahma, returned to his home.

Seeing the beautiful baby girl shining like millions of autumnal moons, mother Kirtida was overcome with joy and immediately arranged for all kinds of religious rites to be performed and donated thousands of cows to the brahmanas.

At that time baby Radharani was placed in a gem-studded cradle and gently rocked back and forth by all the little girls of the village. Day by day Her luster increased just like the digits of the moon.

Within a short while it was observed that the baby girl made no noise and had not yet opened Her eyes. 

Vrishabhanu and his wife feared that their baby girl was perhaps blind from birth and also dumb.

At that time, Srila Narada Muni visited the home of Vrishabhanu and informed him that regardless of the girl’s apparent blindness, they should continue with the birth celebrations.

Vrishabhanu therefore made elaborate arrangements for a lavish birth celebration and sent out invitations to all the residents of Ravala and Gokula and especially to his dear friend Nanda Maharaja and his family.

On the appointed day, the guests had assembled and the birth celebrations were going on in great jubilation. 

Nanda Maharaja and Yashoda Mayi had arrived with Rohini and also brought their small children Krsna and Balarama.

Kirtida met with Yashoda and told her that she was very happy to have such a beautiful daughter, but was feeling rather distraught because her child was both dumb and blind.

Krsna had just passed His first birthday and was happily crawling around the courtyard on His hands and knees. 

Arriving at the cot in which Radharani was lying, Krsna held on to the sides and managed to lift himself up, He then peered into the cot where His gaze fell upon the beautiful moon-like face of baby Radharani.

As soon as baby Radharani smelt the exotic fragrance of Krsna’s transcendental body, She immediately opened Her eyes for the very first time, and looked directly at Krsna, who was the first person that She had ever seen.

As Krsna gazed lovingly at baby Radharani, He began smiling ecstatically, Radharani then suddenly began to cry and for the very first time she made a sound. 

Vrishabhanu and Kirtida, along with all the assembled Vrajavasis, were overjoyed to find out that their beloved daughter Radharani, was not blind nor dumb after all.

In the Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi it says- 

"So powerful is the glancing of Her eyes, that the flute slips from Krsna’s hands, His peacock crown starts to slip, and His yellow shawl becomes displaced as He swoons and falls to the ground. Alas, will I ever get the chance to serve with love and devotion such a person as Radharani."

The Marriage Ceremony of Radha and Krsna.

The forest of Bhandiravana is most famous because it was at this place under the celebrated banyana tree known as Bhandira Vata, that Radha and Krsna were married. The wonderful story of this pastime was spoken by Srila Narada Muni and has been recorded in the Garga Samita as follows-

One day, Nanda Maharaja came to Bhandiravana from Gokula to graze his cows near the banks of the Yamuna, and was carrying his little boy Krsna in his arms.

By the will of yogamaya, a strong wind suddenly began to blow causing all the leaves on the trees to fall and ripples to appear over the surface of the Yamuna. 

The sky immediately became dark and overcast as blackish rain-clouds assembled threateningly overhead. When the clouds loudly thundered, Krsna became frightened and started to cry, forcing Nanda Baba to cuddle Him closer to his chest. The day seemed to turn into night as darkness spread in all directions.

Just then, a shining light as brilliant as ten million suns appeared from nowhere. From within that shining light, Nanda Baba could see standing before him, the youthful, charming, and exquisitely beautiful form of Srimati Radharani, the daughter of his friend Vrishabhanu.

She bore the luster of a thousand moons and was wearing a deep blue sari and Her pinkish lotus feet were decorated with golden anklets that jingled sweetly.

She was adorned with a golden waistband, a necklace, armlets, and bangles, and She wore a pearl in Her nose that appeared like a small moon orbiting Her full moon-like face. 

She had a golden Sri-kanta around Her neck, glittering golden earrings, and a glittering jewel-studded diadem situated on Her head. Nanda Maharaja was struck with wonder at Her effulgence which appeared to light up the entire world. He immediately bowed his head and offered his heartfelt respects to Radharani saying,

“See this child in my arms, He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and I know that You are His eternal consort. Oh Radhe! I have heard this great secret from Gargamuni, therefore take this child, Your Lord, from my arms, He has become frightened due to the thundering of the clouds."

Radha then took Krsna in Her arms and as Nanda Baba offered his humble obeisances, She entered the Bhandiravana forest holding Krsna tightly in Her embrace.

At that very moment, the holy land of Vrindavana assumed a divine form, the dark rain-clouds scattered and the wind subsided into a gentle breeze. Bhumi Devi, the mother earth and consort of Lord Visnu, appeared there in her eternal form causing the earth to flourish as if it was spring-time. The gopis headed by Vrinda Devi, also appeared there along with the cowherd boys to witness the special occasion. 

The crystal clear waters of the Yamuna glistened and became beautified by jeweled staircases and golden terraces. In the distance, the rocks on Govardhana Hill appeared like great jewels and its peaks shone like gold.

With its cascading waterfalls and deep caverns, its huge body appeared like the king of elephants. The sweet smelling lotus flowers in the lakes around Vrindavana began to bloom simultaneously, causing the bumblebees to become madly intoxicated by the delicate aroma that emanated from them.

The peacocks, cuckoos, pigeons, and other song-birds began to resound, creating a celestial chorus that permeated the entire forest of Bhandiravana. In each of the nikunjavans, multicolored banners flapped joyously in the breeze announcing a very special event.

Then the Lord of creation, who was being carried in the arms of Radha, suddenly assumed His eternal youthful Form of Govinda, that defeated millions upon millions of Cupids, and clasping the hand of His beloved Radha, They both gracefully entered the nuptial arena that was decorated with all the paraphernalia for a wedding ceremony. Then as the Divine Couple Radha and Krsna sat down beneath the Bhandira Vata on a golden throne. 

Lord Brahma, who was to officiate as the head priest, arrived there with the host of demigods through the celestial airways. After offering His humble obeisance’s by bowing down, He began to speak brilliant words in glorification saying-

"Anyone who speaks about Your Divine Transcendental Attributes and sings Your praises automatically achieves complete beauty, wealth and perfection, even in this life. Even though you are equal to each other, nevertheless, for the sake of fulfilling local customs, I am going to perform Your marriage ceremony."

Lord Brahma then kindled the sacrificial fire and after offering oblations into it, asked Radha and Krsna to accept each other’s hands.

After chanting the sacred Vedic mantras, and seeing that the corners of Their clothing was tied together, Brahma requested the Divine Lovers to circumambulate the sacrificial fire seven times according to the Vedic system.

After this, Lord Brahma had Radha place Her hand on Krsna’s chest and Krsna’s hand on Radha’s back, after which They recited their wedding vows and offered garlands to each other. At that moment, the demigods showered flowers from the sky, and while playing on various musical instruments and beating on hundreds of celestial drums; they began dancing along with their beautiful wives in great transcendental ecstasy.

Philosophical Considerations Regarding the Marriage of Radha and Krsna. 

This incident of the marriage ceremony between Radha and Krsna was enacted for the specific pleasure of Lord Brahma and the demigods.

This pastime fulfilled their desire to see Radha and Krsna married together in a wedding ceremony in accordance with the standard social customs of Vedic culture. This was because Lord Brahma knew in the future that the Divine Pastimes of parakiya-rasa revealed by Radha and Krsna on the earthly plain, would be severely criticized and misunderstood by mundane moralists and so-called religionists. Lord Brahma therefore, to preempt all false criticism, personally performed Their marriage ceremony while Radha and Krsna were still in Their infancy. 

According to Gaudiya Vaisnava philosophy as propounded by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Sri Sri Radha and Krsna, in Their original manifested Forms are not married, but remain as eternal lovers in the mood of parakiya-bhava, which means a conjugal relationship as paramours.

This is because the super-excellent parakiya-bhava manifests the greatest transcendental pleasure for Radha and Krsna as well as Their eternal servitors the gopis. Thus is therefore regarded as the most superior form of bhava or loving mood within the category of madhurya-rasa, which is itself considered the most superior amongst the five essential rasas.

Another point is that at the time of this ceremony at Bhandiravana, both Radha and Krsna were still only about two or three years old and enjoying Their kaumara-lilas, or pastimes as little children at Gokula and Ravala respectively.

This manifestation of the wedding ceremony at Bhandiravana was certainly a unique spiritual event similar to the secret manifestation of the Yoga-pitha, or the pastimes of aprakata-lila. To win Krsna's favour you first must please Srimati Radharani.

Yogamaya (yoga-māyā) is Krsna’s internal, spiritual potency that connects the individual jiva-souls to the Supreme Lord in voluntary transcendental loving service.

Srila Prabhupada explains that the word yoga means "connection". While maya generally refers to "energy or illusion." Yogamaya is the Divine energy that lifts material illusion, guides the individual jiva-souls toward Krsna Consciousness, and facilitates intimate relationships between Krsna and His pure devotees.

Srila Prabhupada defines Yogamaya as the Lord's mercy that unites a devotee with Krsna in pure, selfless devotion. When a practitioner gradually advances in spiritual awareness, they are acting under the shelter of Yogamaya.

Yogamaya creates and maintains the permanent, eternal spiritual sky (the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka Vrindavana), which remain untouched even when the material universes are annihilated.

Facilitating intimate pastimes (lilas) - In the spiritual realm, Yogamaya induces a transcendental "forgetfulness" of Krsna's supreme majesty so devotees can love Him naturally. 

For example, Mother Yashoda sees Krsna as her dependent child rather than as the Almighty Creator Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, allowing her to experience pure parental affection. To the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, Kṛṣṇa is just their wonderful amazing friend, they have no idea nor care who He really is.

Yogamaya vs. Mahamaya.

Srila Prabhupada frequently contrasts Yogamaya (the internal energy) with Mahamaya (the external, material energy). He compares them to a single electrical current that can both cool and heat depending on the appliance, or to a government's civil and criminal laws.

Krsna as His original form, never leaves Vṛndāvana. When Krsna comes to Earth to perform His pastimes, His original childhood form never leaves Vṛndāvana in the spiritual world. This means all of Krsna's pastimes in the material world are performed by His Visnu-tattva expansion playing that role of Krsna. 

The original Krsna, who does not leave Goloka-Vrindavana, never kills demons in the spiritual world, only His Visnu-tattva expansion in the material world who plays the role of Krsna, kills demons because in the original Vrindavana there are no demons, they only exist in the material world's facsimile of the Vrindavana in the spiritual world. 

Srila Prabhupada - "When Kṛṣṇa kills the demons outside Vṛndāvana, He is not original Kṛṣṇa; He is Vāsudeva. Vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti (BG 7.19). When Kṛṣṇa is acting universally, that is Vāsudeva, the original Kṛṣṇa is always in Vṛndāvana.

Devotee - "If the original Kṛṣṇa is always in Vṛndāvana, then why do the gopīs and Rādhārāṇī feel separation from Him?"

Srila Prabhupada - "That is here in this material world, in the spiritual world Kṛṣṇa does not leave them."

Devotee - "Oh."

Srila Prabhupāda - "And even in the material world, Kṛṣṇa superficially has gone to Mathurā, but He has captured the heart of the gopīs. So He is not leaving. Gopīs are enjoying Kṛṣṇa by separation, that is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's feeling, how He is appreciating Kṛṣṇa by separation." (Morning Walk, July 17, 1975, San Francisco).

Maha-Visnu dreams His material world, and those individual jiva-souls who choose to enter, receives a material bodily vessel from His dreams that is in sync with their own mistaken desires.

All material bodily vessels and their pathways are "hired" to the individual jiva-souls by Maha-Visnu, so they can begin their journey through the temporary material world. 

The individual jiva-souls "hire" a material bodily container off Maha-Visnu and became its passenger because they have rejected serving Krsna and Visnu in the spiritual world (The Kingdom of God).

Srila Prabhupada - "We are not the owner of this body, not the owner of the material senses. The senses are "hired" from the Supreme Lord (Maha-Visnu). This is very subtle understanding; one should know the proprietor of the senses is God." (March 1966, New York City).

Krsna's expansion Maha-Visnu creates the material world (decaying matter) including all temporary material bodily vessels and their pathways that the individual jiva-souls are passengers in/on while outside of the spiritual world (living anti-matter) and now living in the material world.  

Maha-Visnu’s "Library of unlimited pathways of material bodily vessels" (decaying matter) are what the individual jiva-souls (eternally living individual units of anti-matter) are passengers in/on within the mundane temporary material world. 

Also known as the "block material universe" it functions like a "Universal Library" that "houses" unlimited pathways of material bodily vessels that the individual jiva-souls are passengers in while in the material world creation of Maha-Visnu. 

All material bodily movements, events, and moments, from the beginning of each material bodies pathway, to its middle and end, already exists at every point along that pathway moving through past, present and future, fixed within the material block universal dream of Maha-Visnu.

The "block material universe" is "all" (everything there is) that exists within Maha-Visnu's dreams of His material world, meaning, as said above, all past, present and future always exist together and are simultaneously occurring at the same time. 

This means Maha-Visnu and any individual jiva-soul he allows due to desire and qualification (karma), can see "everything" (past, present and future) from above the movement of material time, just like from above a long roadway, one can see its beginning, middle and end, or one can view again and again the frame by frame of a movie film. 

So, who are these material bodily vessels (persons) known as Hitler, Stalin, Churchill etc? Are those material bodily forms the real living persons?

No, they are just a decaying dead material bodily vessels who an individual jiva-soul (living anti-matter) is occupying as the passenger, meaning they are not that material bodily vessel (decaying matter) they are in.

The point made here is to clearly understand that the individual jiva-souls (living eternal anti-matter), are not the material bodily decaying vessels (decaying matter) they occupy as its passenger as they move through the pathway's of material bodily vessels in material world.

This is a little complicated to understand, but just like one wears many different suits, similarly the individual jiva-souls, over millions of life times, wears millions of different material bodily vessels like one wears those many suits.

All individual jiva-souls have worn millions of different material bodily vessels (costumes) based on their desires and karma. 

All material bodily vessels in the material world that the visiting individual jiva-souls are in and experience, are achieved by desire and the reactions to their good and bad actions (karma) while confined to a human material bodily form as its passenger.

The none-human lower species of material  bodily forms are not subject to karma because they cannot express free will, all lower species of life (8 million) are controlled by the instincts of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. 

As explained earlier, all material bodily vessels (matter) are "hired" from the dreams of Maha-Visnu by the visiting individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter)

This also means that an unlimited number of individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) have travelled through the movement of eternal time in the material world (past, present and future), have experienced those exact same permanent material bodily pathways made of an array of material bodily vessels (decaying matter) just like each frame on a film canister is always their to watch again and again.

The important point to understand is that the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) are not the material bodily vessel (decaying matter) they are housed in as its passenger.

And, as explained above, this so called eternal reoccurrence is not what is really going on in the material world at all, there is no such thing as "eternal reoccurrence" because as explained above, all material bodily pathways are a permanent fixture existing eternally in the already dreamed dreams of Maha-Visnu.  

What is really happening is each moment through material time's past, present and future is always there and never fades way just like each frame on a movie film is always there after watching the film. 

In this way, the material bodily pathway travelled on by the individual jiva-souls, eternally remains after passing through it, always there for other individual jiva-souls to also travel on as the passenger in a material bodily vessel. 

In other words, this permanent pathway of material bodily vessels are always existing for other individual jiva-souls pass to along/through on their journey in the material world.  

All "hired" material bodily vessels in Maha-Visnu's dreams always exist as a progressive roadway that the individual jiva-souls journey along/through as its passenger. The pathway of material bodily vessels the individual jiva-souls journey in as its passenger, move along the movement of past, present and future confined in a material bodily vessels that is a eternal feature of the material world's space-time. 

Lifeless material energy is the eternal fabric of space-time in the material world that also perpetually exists as material bodily vessel pathways (as material bodily vessels) where the individual jiva-souls travel through as the passenger.

In this way as said above, all material bodily vessels (decaying matter) in Maha-Visnu's material world, are a permanent fixture that always exist as a pathway for the individual jiva-souls to travel in as a passenger, moving through past, to present to future, just like the different stages on roadway always remains after one travels on it, or each frame on a movie film can be watched over and over again.

In other words, the individual jiva-souls experience past, present and future as a pathway moving from birth, to youth, to middle age, to old age and death as the passenger on that pathway of material bodily vessel that always exist after being passed through.

This journey through all material pathways that the individual jiva-souls take as a passenger, are continuously occupied by other individual jiva-souls who also choose the same journey of existence in a material bodily vessel along the pathway of past, present and future in the material world.  

This is just like driving a vehicle on an already built and established roadway, where one experiencing its beginning, middle and end. However, like all roadways, it always remains as a roadway for others to also drive on it.

Therefore, it only appears that the material bodily vessels the individual jiva-souls are in as a passenger, are continually reoccurring when in actual fact, that is not what is going as explained above.

As said above, all material bodily vessels or pathways, are an established permanent fixed stream of material bodily vessels moving through/along material time's past, present and future. 

The individual jiva-souls move through/along this pathway as a passenger, also known as the block material universe, means the realities of past, present and future all exists simultaneously.  

In other words, the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) are the passengers on a permanent pathway of material energy made of material bodily vessels (decaying matter) moving along a host of material bodily vessels through the material energies past, present and future, that all continue to always exist as a eternal pathway after the individual jiva-souls pass through them as the passenger.

The moving fabric of unlimited pathways of material bodily containers on a journey through the roadway of material time's past,  present and future, is made of dead material energy (decaying matter), travelled in by the individual jiva-souls (living individual units of anti-matter) as the passenger. 

The individual jiva-souls are not the material bodily vessel pathways but rather its living passenger within, who are confined to the material world's fabric of temporary decaying material energy.

All material bodily pathways made up of material bodily vessels, exist eternally in Mahā-Viṣṇu's dreams as roadway's within His material creation for those individual jiva-souls who choose to enter the temporary material world, to enter as the passenger in those material bodily containers.  

Everything is temporary in the material world because it is always in a constant state of constant maintenance, decline and decay experienced by the individual jiva-souls confined to a temporary material bodily vessel as its passenger who moves along that pathway of material bodily vessels through past, present and future in the material world.  

The movement of past, present and future has the side effect of impermanence, decomposition, birth, youth, disease, old age and death.

In the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, only the "eternal presence of Krsna" exists, meaning there is no concept of past or future existing like in the material world, therefore in the spiritual world there is no impermanence, decline, decay birth and death there.

This means everything there is eternally fresh and youthful in the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the spiritual world) that are the eternal Kingdoms of God.

Temporary material energy makes up all material bodily vessels or containers (matter) that the individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) enters as a passenger (covered by) in the material world.  

When these material bodily vessels wears out and decays, they break down into material elements and merges again back into the oneness of lifeless material energy (matter).

Only when the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) are no longer covered by a decaying material bodily vessel (decaying matter), know that their real perpetual spiritual bodily form and identity (living anti-matter) never ages, decays dies or takes birth like a mundane material bodily vessel does they are the passenger in.

The individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) eternally remain an individual spiritual person always separate from the mundane material bodily containers they occupy as its passenger.

The individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) are covered in the material world by a temporary material bodily vessel (decaying matter) that is part of the lifeless material energy. 

Unlike the spiritual world's Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana where the "eternal presence" of Krsna eternally exists, where past and future have no meaning, the mundane material world's concept of time is governed by past, present and future, but exists all at the same time to those who can see from above the mundane movement material time that are the dreams of Maha-Visnu that He always knows.

All material bodily vessels (made from decaying material energy) are occupied by the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter), such decaying material  bodily vessels are a permanent fixture of the material energies moving along frame by frame on the pathway of past, present and future owned by Maha-Visnu like the frames on a movie film (canister).

Such material vessels originate from Maha-Visnu's dreams of the material universe that are eternally existing with the continuous flow of material bodily vessels moving on the pathway of material time's past, present and future also known as the "block material universe."

All material bodily vessels of all shapes and sizes exist within Maha-Visnu's "Library Of Material Dreams," they and are available for "hire" to those individual jiva-souls who have chosen to visit His material world after choosing to leave the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana. 

The constant movement of travelling through material time's past, present and future in a sequence of material bodily vessels is like watching frame after frame after frame on a movie film. This means there is no repetition or eternal reoccurrence going on in Maha-Visnu's dreams of the material world.  

The individual jiva-souls in the material world are housed in material bodily vessels as the passenger, experiencing this pathway through the material world’s dimension of time (past, present and future) is like viewing frame after frame on a Movie film that always exist together on the same reel of film that can be watched again and again (this is describing Maha-Visnu’s block material universe).

In this way, there is only the constant movement of individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) travelling in material bodily vessels (decaying matter) as passengers on that permanent roadway that eternally exists in Maha-Visnu's dreams for any individual jiva-soul to also travel on/through. 

Only by properly understanding the fabric of material time can we see each stage of the journey of past, present and future. In other words, past, present and future eternally exist together, all at the same time. As said above this is what the terminology "block material universe" means. 

Srila Prabhupada always encouraged us to have personal realizations and yes, the ones here are thought provoking because they are based on Vedic teachings.

Keep in mind, the "dreams" of Maha-Visnu are almost inconceivable to understand, even when Arjuna viewed past, present and future simultaneously and being able to see everything (past, present and future), he was scared and confused because he was seeing his own future and the future of his family.

The reason he could see his future was because it was already existing like an entire roadway from its beginning, to its middle and at its end. 

Each dream of Maha-Visnu is always existing like a pathway that the individual jiva-souls traverse down (as explained above) This means the individual jiva-souls are traveling through a material bodily pathway that is already there, what has always existed.

Another way of understanding this is just like when one rewinds a video tape, the contends captured will always be the same at every stage on the tape.

Similarly, the material bodily vessels we are now in, belongs to Maha-Visnu's material world always and like a library book hired out again and again, also exists for other individual jiva-souls who choose to leave the spiritual worlds of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, to enter and experience.

This means material time's past, present and future is a permanent fixture eternally recorded as the dreams of Maha-Visnu and always exists as the "block material universe."

This also means we take our next birth in a material bodily vessel that already eternally exists in either a past, present or future time zone, where the individual jiva-soul as the passenger on that material pathway of material bodily vessels moves though the stages of past, present and future, experiencing each moment as the "present" (now), meaning the material bodily birth, childhood, youth, middle age, old age, death the individual jiva-soul is experiencing is due to moving through the pathway of material bodily containers that are part of the material world (decaying matter) unlike the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) who are the passengers. 

That further means when we choose a material bodily vessel, the pathway in its different stages of childhood, youth, middle age, old age etc. of that material body, already exists in its different time zones (past, present and future) because each material body's pathway is a permanent fixture of this material universe known as the maha-tattva manifestation (material creation) of Maha-Visnu's dreams of the material world (also known as the block material universe) 

The individual jiva-souls have their own full expression of individual self based on free will, having a strong sense of an independent self where they eternally make their own decisions and choices that Krsna allows to create diversity and a two-sided relationship of loving voluntary exchanges without any dictatorial forceful manipulation from Krsna, or Maha-Visnu. 

The latter (Maha-Visnu) creates the material bodily pathways for the individual jiva-souls to travel on/in while in His material world.  

What we are learning here, is the 'dreams' of Maha-Visnu are all happening eternally in the "present - at the same time" which means past, present and future all exist simultaneously that allows the individual jiva-souls "housed as the passenger" in those material bodily vessels, to move along those material bodily pathways as they move through material time's, past, present and future.  

The dreams of Maha-Visnu, that include material bodily vessels and their pathways through past, present and future made of an array of material bodily containers that house the individual jiva-souls as the passenger, are an eternal fixture of the material world within Maha-Visnu's eternal dreams. When material time is seen above its step by step movement through past, present and future, one realizes that past, present and future always exist, and the individual jiva-souls (the passenger) only pass through it.

However, due to all material bodily vessels moving through time's past, present and future, each material bodily vessel the individual jiva-souls are contained in as the passenger, experience the continuous decaying side of the material world due to the divisions of material mundane time's past, present and future. 

This does not exist in the spiritual world where only the eternal presence of Krsna only exists meaning everything there is ever fresh, youthful and never decays.

The material energy (dead matter without the presents of life - the individual jiva-souls) in the material world is "all-one" lifeless matter that also manifests as a material bodily vessel that houses the individual jiva-souls as a passenger. 

The individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) are not from or part of the decaying material world, they are individual spiritual persons whose real home and origin is the spiritual worlds of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the Kingdom of God).

This is important to understand as there are many nonsense impersonalists (mayavadis) who believe there is an "all-one" pervasive life force behind everything. They foolishly believe that when a material bodily vessel dies, the life force within that material bodily vessel, merges back into the "one life force" just like when air is released from a container, it merges back into the oneness of the air around us.

This nonsense philosophy is called mayavadi impersonalism, this idea is wrong and dangerous and to a Vaisnava devotee of Kṛṣṇa and is committing spiritual suicide for those who follow or even hear such dangerous mayavadi teachings.

So, to be clear, in the material world everything in under the movement of Maha-Visnu's dreaming of material time's past, present and future, where each material bodily vessel's pathway is a long winding roadway moving through the material world.

This means the pathway or roadway of the material bodily vessels, both gross or subtle, that the individual jiva-souls are housed in as the passenger, is like a roadway eternally existing in Maha-Visnu's dreams.

This means there are unlimited pathways made of material bodily vessels already existing in Maha-Visnu's dreams, that one can enter into based on desires, karma and what they deserve on their journey through Maha-Visnu's decaying material world.

In other words, one who worships the rich and famous can take birth in those material bodily vessels they admire housed as the passenger, after being trained up and qualified to take that birth, which can take many, many, many births just to have the qualifications to be in that famous "material bodily vessel" as the passenger for one insignificant life time, such as famous people in 1960s/70s like John F Kennedy, Timothy Leary, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Elvis Presley, Bill Gates etc.

What waste of time independently experiencing the mundane material world compared to just choosing to return home back to Godhead and be in either the Vaikuntha planets serving Visnu, or in Goloka-Vrindavana being Krsna's friend, which are the individual jiva-soul's real spiritual home and original position.

If those individual jiva-souls housed in a decaying material bodily container, knew what they had to go through to attain that famous wealthy materialistic bodily vessel they have desired, they would have second thoughts about seeking material fame and wealth on this mundane planet and within the material heavenly planets too.

All material bodily vessels in the material creation must be deserved first, allowing the individual jiva-souls who are qualified to enter and experience that temporary existence in the material world.

Also, it is known that usually the most pious individual jiva-soul in each material universe (Brahmanda) takes up the "post" of Lord Brahma when the next Brahmanda material universe manifests from the breathing and pours of the sleeping Maha-Visnu.

In the same way; we are all awarded with a material bodily vessel according to our past pious and impious activities too, known as karmic reactions.

All individual jiva-souls housed in a material bodily vessel as the passenger, are contained in material energies fabric of space-time, moving through the material stages of past, present and future within the pathway of each material bodily vessel they are in.

However, seeing from above the movement of material time's past, present and future, just like seeing the entire journey of a roadway from above, one can see the entire journey of the material bodily vessel they are a passenger in, its beginning, middle and end, all at once. This is also known as Mahā-Viṣṇu's block material universe.  

This means "materially" one can see all past, present and future existing together simultaneously, seeing every twist and turn on the pathway of material time.

The explanation in the above essay is correctly explaining that all material bodily vessels within Maha-Visnu's dreams that the individual jiva-souls are passengers in, are a "permanent" fixture of material bodily pathways (real but temporary) that eternally exist within the dreams of Maha-Visnu.

As said above, this may give the impression of eternal repetition but no, the material universe is in a constant state that is above the movement of past, present and future that the individual jiva-souls only experience by moving or flowing through the material energy on the fabric of past, present and future.

In other words, moving along material time's pathway of twists and turns, is how the individual jiva-soul experience the material bodily container they are housed in, birth, childhood, youth, middle age, old age and death. 

This birth, youth, middle age and death does not eternally repeat itself, what is really going on is each material bodily pathway is a permanent fixture of the material world, the time's past, present and future are continuously existing where the individual jiva-souls simply passing through/along as the passenger on/in that material bodily vessel's pathway.  

In other words, what is seen from above, the entire roadway from its beginning, middle and end, is experiencing the movement of material time's past, present and future which are Maha-Visnu's dreams and all exist simultaneously as the block universe.  

Therefore, the dreams of Maha-Visnu are the material bodily vessel's pathways made of material bodies (decaying matter) where the individual jiva-souls as its passenger, travel through the fabric of material energy's space-time's past, present and future.

These bodily vessel pathways are always available for "hire" to those individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) who choose to enter Maha-Visnu's material world after leaving the spiritual worlds of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana.  

Within Maha-Visnu's dreams, all past, present and future exist simultaneously that even some very rare devotees of Krsna and yogis can also see.

So, there is a constant movement of the individual jiva-souls, who are "housed" in a material bodily vessel's pathway, travelling through material time's past, present and future along that permanent pathway made of material bodily vessels, like a roadway's beginning, middle and end, through birth, disease, old age and death.

This pathway or roadway is always available for others individual jiva-souls to travel through/along, which is permanent fixture of within the material energy coming from Maha-Visnu's dreaming of the material world, and experienced by those individual jiva-souls who "hire" a material bodily vessel's pathway to be the passenger in. 

Modern science cannot understand the material universe in this way where time travel is always possible but only in this way explained above known as Mahā-Viṣṇu's the block material universe.

Everything in the material world is dead matter and a permanent fixture of Maha-Visnu's dreaming. No individual life comes from the material world (dead matter).

The individual jiva-souls (living individual units of anti-matter) can only enter the material world from the spiritual world known as the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, and then pass through the material world's array of material bodily vessel's pathways as a passenger.  

The "roadways or pathways" of time's "past, present and future" never disappear as explained above, they always exist as a permanent fixture within the fabric of the material world (decaying matter) that the visiting individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) can travel through in.

The material bodily vessel's pathways that the individual jiva-souls are in/on as the passenger, are always the property of Maha-Visnu's dreams that are "hired" out to those individual jiva-soul who choose to leave the spiritual worlds of the Vaikuntha planets of Visnu/Narayana, or Krsna's central Abode of Goloka-Vrindavana. Such material bodily pathways always remain Maha-Visnu's property existing as His dreams of the material world. 

Each material bodily vessel's pathway is continuously available for other individual jiva-souls to also travel through/on, to experience their desires separate from Krsna's spiritual world. 

Experiencing any desire without Kṛṣṇa, can only be achieved in the temporary material world within the dreaming creations of Maha-Visnu.

In Maha-Visnu's dreams of the material world, every scenario conceivable is possible and exists for "hire" to any visiting individual jiva-soul who falls from the spiritual world and foolishly enters Maha-Visnu's material world and seek out their selfish desires to be powerful, rich and famous without Kṛṣṇa.

Hiring "material dreams" off Maha-Visnu are similar to visiting a "costume shop" that is full of different costumes (material bodily pathways) that the individual jiva-soul can choose to enter/travel/on/in.

Every individual jiva-soul who enters the material world must go to Maha-Visnu's "Costume Shop" (dress shop) to attain a suitable material bodily vessel and its pathway from the dreams of the sleeping Maha-Visnu.

The individual jiva-souls who have chosen to enter Maha-Visnu's material world after falling from the spiritual worlds of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, must choose a material bodily vessel they "hire" in their attempt to enjoy separate from Krsna in the temporary material world.

This is where the individual jiva-souls are offered a particular material bodily vessel by Maha-Visnu according to their material desires, so they can enter into the material world with a suitable material body that is in accordance and in sync with their own material desires.

Maha-Visnu always owns all such material vessels that are part and parcel of His material creation that He has dreamed.

Therefore, those who have chosen to enter the material creation, must go to Maha-Visnu's "Library Of dreams" and choose a material bodily vessel from His unlimited dreams of all material affairs.

Everything conceivable material bodily vessel or container exists in Maha-Visnu's dreams, every scenario is possible as said above, no matter how strange or bizarre it is, all realities already exists in the dreams of Maha-Visnu.

This means all that there is and all that there will be, every combination of material existence possible, already exists as His dreams.

It is the lifeless material bodily vessels (coming from Maha-Visnu's dreams) that the individual jiva-souls (life) within the billions of Brahmanda material universes coming from Maha-Visnu, enter those material bodily vessels as a passenger. The individual jiva-souls chooses a material bodily vessel and its pathway through the material world, just like one chooses from a variety of costumes in a fancy dress store where each costume represents a particular pastime.

For the eternal associates of Krsna like Arjuna, there is a different set of rules.

The fact is, Arjuna is always with Krsna in innumerable different material universes (Brahmandas) at one time always as his spiritual form, meaning there is only one individual jiva-soul who is Arjuna. 

In other words, no other individual jiva-soul can ever become Arjuna because his bodily form is not material meaning it is not a vessel, the body of Arjuna is Arjuna, is him because he is a spiritual individual personality.

Although the individual jiva-soul who surrenders to Krsna, and some advanced yogis, can expand or project their consciousness into eight different material bodily vessels at the same time and still be just the "one individual jiva-soul" in all those material bodily forms.

Advanced yogis can do this but is also limited to eight expansions however, for Krsna's eternal associate like Arjuna, he is beyond such rules, he can be in many, many millions universes simultaneously, where ever Krsna is.

Yes, this is very true as sastra (scripture) tells us but very rare to understand especially in this degraded age of Kali-yuga.

The fact is, the individual jiva-soul who is the spiritual bodily form of Arjuna, is always the same individual jiva-soul in all the different  material universes (Brahmandas) according to Srila Prabhupada. As said above, no other individual jiva-soul can ever become Arjuna, and this further applies to every individual jiva-soul in the spiritual world.

The material world is different because there the individual jiva-souls are covered by a material bodily vessel they are housed in as the passenger, this is not so in the spiritual world where matter (and all material bodily vessels or containers) do not exist. There the spiritual bodily form is the individual jiva-soul.  

In the spiritual world there is no difference between the self and the spiritual bodily form. This means material bodily vessels do not exist in the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the Kingdom of God)

The "one" individual jiva-soul (referring to Arjuna) can expand himself as many different Arjunas who in unlimited pastimes with Krsna in the temporary material world.

This means no one can become Arjuna because his position is not like Brahmas, the individual jiva-soul of Arjuna is always the one individual Arjuna no matter where he is with Krsna.

Such a position like Arjuna as Krsna's eternal servant, is very rare.

As said above, a yogi can also project his consciousness and be in 8 different material bodies all at one time. But this is not the case with every material bodily vessel in the material creation. Only some rare individual jiva-souls can possess more than one material bodily vessels at once.

This is not the case with the billions of different Lord Brahmas who are each in their material universe that is deep within the greater Brahmanda universal shell surrounding their inner secondary material universe.

In each case, the material bodily vessel of Lord Brahma is occupied by a different individual jiva-soul as its passenger.

So as said above, in every material bodily vessel of Lord Brahma, there is a different individual jiva-soul every time Maha-Visnu creates all the billions of Brahmanda universes in the material world.

All the different Brahmas are not the same "individual jiva-souls," there are billions of different individual jiva-souls who can become a Brahma in all the different material secondary universes that are deep inside each Brahmanda material universe that comes from the Body of Maha-Visnu.

There are those who believe the material universe is continuously repeating itself each time Maha-Visnu creates the material Brahmanda universes, but that is not true. The fact is every "material bodily vessel's pathway" that is, and can be, already eternally exists within the dreams of Maha-Visnu that the individual jiva-souls can "hire" and become a passenger in.

The individual jiva-souls "hires" a material bodily vessel's pathway off Maha-Visnu which is a permanent roadway or pathway that many individual jiva-souls can be housed in and travel through/on as a passenger. 

This means the material universe, including all material bodily vessels and their pathways, are continuously existing with an endless flow of individual jiva-souls possessing those "material bodily vessel's pathway," passing through them like one passes over a roadway.

Therefore it only seems the material universe is repeating itself when in actual fact it is a complete block, like travelling through an already made roadway that remains there after travelling through it.

Therefore, each material bodily vessel or container and its pathway in the material world, eternally exists within the material dreams of Maha-Visnu, that are "hired" by all visiting individual jiva-souls who has matching desires that are in sync with Maha-Visnu's dreams.

The dreams of Maha-Visnu gives the visiting individual jiva-souls the facilities to fulfil their desires in the material world.

The fact is such dreams of material bodies and their pathways the individual jiva-souls are passengers in, are a permanent "fixture" or roadway that always exists within the dreams of Maha-Visnu. The visiting individual jiva-souls can travel within those dreams a passenger housed in a material bodily vessel, and experience their own desires while in the mundane temporary material world.

Remember, all these material bodily containers (decaying matter) and their pathways through the material world, are the creation coming from the dreams of Maha-Visnu. In this way, all facilities in the material world come from Maha-Visnu's dreams.

The individual jiva-souls, by their desires, move through the journey of material existence in a material bodily vessel through the pathway of birth, youth, middle age, disease, old age and death and then again rebirth if one fails to get out of this temporary material mundane world of repeated birth and death.

Being in a material bodily vessel or container as its passenger, is simultaneously being on the pathway or road that leads to one's destination based on their desires.

All "pathways" (the journey of travelling through material bodily vessels) from the dreams of Maha-Visnu that the individual jiva-souls are passengers in, have always existed as part and parcel of the fabric of material space-time that many other visiting individual jiva-souls have/can also experience and move through.

In other words, there is always a flow of individual jiva-souls experiencing the road journey of material bodily containers or vessels coming from the dreams of Maha-Visnu.

This is what is really happening in the material world instead of the nonsense eternal repetition or reoccurrence speculation.

Each point along the roadway of material bodily vessels is eternally there as permanent fixture of the material world's "bodily pathways" that the individual jiva-souls are housed in as the passenger and passes through experiencing linear time in the material world.

All pathways through material time's past, present and future, are made of material bodily vessels (from the dreams of Maha-Visnu's), that confine and cover the individual jiva-souls with the fabric of material energy in the form of those material bodily vessel, that move through space-time's past, present and future carrying the individual jiva-souls as the passenger experiencing the effect of birth, youth, disease, old age, and death.

This roadway or pathway of material bodily vessels, is known as linear time, which is the movement forward through past, present and future.

But from outside or above that linear time, rare individual jiva-souls can see the entire roadway, from its beginning middle and end, seen all at once. They can see the movement of past, present and future all exist simultaneously, like seeing from above the view of an entire roadway from its beginning to its end.

The movement of material bodily vessels within the material world explained above, may seem to be repeating themselves over and over again however, as said above, that is not what's going on in Maha-Visnu's dreams as explained above.

The "block material universe" understanding is where all material bodies (dead matter) always exist as a permanent fixture in matter that the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) moves through as the passenger. This means the past, present and future always exist as a fabric of material energy (dead matter) that the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) pass through on their journey through the material world. 

The material bodily vessels (decaying matter) are occupied by the individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) as the passengers, who move through and along the material pathway of material bodily vessels that move through past, present and future. 

The material universes (Brahmandas) are constantly being annihilated, and again created by Maha-Visnu, but as explained above, that is only seen from the movement of "linear time." However, when seeing everything beyond linear time, one can see all past, present and future simultaneously in the material world above constant material annihilation only seen in linear time. 

This is the "block material universe" creation of Maha-Visnu where past, present and future are always exiting that the individual jiva-souls pass through, just like travelling through a roadway's beginning, middle and end.  

Only the linear time movement of past, present and future does one see the temporary nature of material energy and view of material world and its constant annihilation. 

Therefore, what is constantly unfolding through the fabric of material energy and time, are permanent pathways of material bodily vessels moving through past, present and future. 

All this is coming from Maha-Visnu's dreams that are a permanent fixture that the individual jiva-souls are passengers in, who enter and pass along and through material time's past, present and future.

The fact is, all material bodily vessels and their pathways are the material dreams of Maha-Visnu that are "hired" to individual jiva-souls who have chosen to enter the material world. 

All material bodily vessels have no life until they are occupied by individual jiva-souls with one being the prominent one situated in the heart.

All material bodily vessels and their pathways are a permanent fixture or post in the material world originating from the permanent dreams from Maha-Visnu. 

The visiting individual jiva-souls move through material vessels along the pathway of past, present and future, just like one moves along a roadway that always remains there after passing on/through it, that other individual jiva-souls can also travel on/through these same pathways of material bodily vessels the individual jiva-souls are housed in as the passengers.

Another way of looking at this is just like in society there exists fancy dress shops where one can go and hire out costumes and experience a particular pastime (material reality) the costume represents.

Similarly, in the temporary material world every material bodily vessel and its pathway conceivable, exists within Maha-Visnu's "fancy dress shop of material costumes" (His dreams) that a visiting individual jiva-soul from the spiritual world can "hire" from Maha-Visnu if they choose to enter His material world.

All such material realities, pathways, bodily vessels, all come from Maha-Visnu's dreams and are available to all visiting individual jiva-souls who choose to enter the material world.

There is a constant flow of individual jiva-souls entering those permanent fixed pathways in the material world made of material bodily vessels or costumes that cover the individual jiva-souls who are the passenger in them. In this way, the individual jiva-souls wears/and passes through these "material bodily vessel's pathway" in what is known as Maha-Visnu's "block material universe."

In other words, just like the costumes in a "fancy dress rental shop" are "hired" by the shop owner, similarly all the variety of material bodily vessels and their pathways existing in the material world, are "hired-out" by Maha-Visnu.

All material bodily vessel's pathways in the material world are provided to all individual jiva-souls who choose to enter the material world by Maha-Visnu that come from His dreams of the material world.

Therefore, each "material bodily" costume or vessel the individual jiva-souls are housed in as a passenger, is a permanent position or fixture situated in the fabric of material energy coming from Maha-Visnu's dreams, that moves through the material world's time of past,  present and future.

Maha-Visnu provides all material bodily vessel's pathways for the individual jiva-souls to be a passengers in, where they experience birth, youth, disease, old age and death, housed as a passenger in a material bodily vessel that moves through linear time's, past, present and future.

All material bodily vessels are costumes that always remain the property of Maha-Visnu's dreams. They are "hire out" by Him to all visiting individual jiva-souls to be a passenger in, who choose to enter Maha-Visnu's temporary material world (decaying matter) after leaving the spiritual world (living anti-matter) of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the Kingdom of God) 

All "lifeless material bodily vessels" the individual jiva-souls are only passengers in, always remain the property of Maha-Visnu, whereas the living individual jiva-souls who are the passengers are from the spiritual world and not from Maha-Visnu's temporary material world. 

Individual life does not originate from the lifeless material world, or the impersonal brahmajyoti. The individual jiva-souls (life) only enters the temporary material world, and may later enter the impersonal brahmajyoti after becoming frustrated with material existence, after leaving the spiritual world, which is the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the Kingdom of God) as said above.

The cycle of decay and renewal, birth and death in this temporary material existence continues on eternally in linear time, with a continuous flow of visiting individual jiva-souls experiencing each material bodily pathway within the dreams of Maha-Visnu. 

There is always "free will" in the spiritual world because without free will the individual jiva-souls (devotees) would not be able to voluntarily participate, cooperate and contribute to their relationship with Krsna. Without these qualities above the individual jiva-souls are no better than dead lifeless.

As said above, all material bodily vessel's pathways are a permanent fixture that are continuously moving through material time carrying the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) in material bodily containers (decaying matter) as the passenger, moving through past, present and future on their endless journey through the temporary material world.  

The material bodily vessel's pathway carrying the individual jiva-souls, remains the same, fixed in the fabric of material energies space-time. All material bodily vessel's pathways are a "hired" dream coming from Maha-Visnu, where the embodied individual jiva-souls housed in them as the passenger, experience their journey from birth, childhood, disease, old age and death through that pathway made of material bodily vessels.  

The individual jiva-souls, who are confined to a material bodily vessel as its passenger while in the material world, travel through a permanent pathway of material body containers as explained above, moving through past, present and future. 

However, because the pathway of material bodily vessels always exists, it means there is a constant flow of other individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) who also enter that same permanent pathway made of material bodily vessels as a new passenger on that permanent pathway, who have fallen from the spiritual world and also "hired" those material bodily vessels as a new passenger and traveller. All material bodily vessels and their pathways are "hired" from the dreaming Maha-Visnu who owns them all. 

As explained above, this is also called the "block material universe" which means the material world created by Maha-Visnu's dreams, are always exactly the same and covers every possible outcome, scenario and combination of material energy that fulfils every desire the fallen visiting individual jiva-souls have.

All the journeys through the temporary decaying material world by the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) are housed in an array of material bodily pathways made of material bodily vessels (decaying matter) that are a permanent roadway within material energy.

Such pathways of material bodily vessel's pathways, are constantly being occupied by a progression of individual jiva-souls who have chosen to enter Maha-Visnu's temporary mundane material world, by leaving the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, and then traveling on/through a chosen material bodily pathway made of material bodily vessels, caring the individual jiva-souls as a passenger through material time's "past, present and future," on their journey through the temporary material world.  

In the temporary decaying material world, the individual jiva-souls as passengers in a material bodily vessel, choose a pathway made of material bodily vessels (decaying matter) that carry them through material time's past, present and future. These pathways of material bodily vessels eternally exists as the permanent fixture in the dreams of Maha-Visnu. 

Within each material bodily vessel (decaying matter) exists many individual jiva-souls (actively living anti-matter) with one being the prominent one as the main passenger. All visiting individual jiva-soul from the spiritual world play the same part in a material bodily vessel's pathway that pervious individual jiva-souls before them have experienced, housed as the passenger travelling through the fabric of material time's past, present and future on/in a pathway of material bodily vessels housed as the passenger.

The individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) are passengers within a moving array of material bodily vessels (decaying matter) on their journey through material time's past, present and future. 

As said above, this pathway through time of material bodily vessels, are a permanent fixture of the fabric of material time within Maha-Visnu's dreaming of the material world known as the block material universe. 

The individual jiva-souls are always a passenger moving through the roadway of past, present and future on and within a material bodily vessel's pathway.  

In this way, the material bodily vessels are a fixed flowing fabric of the material world's past, present and future, just like the frames on a movie are always part of the movie reel.

Just like the frames on a movie reel always exist, so does past, present and future always exist in the material world that the individual jiva-souls travel through/on as a passenger. In this way, everything that happens within the material world exists for as long as the material world exists.

In other words past, present and future, like the beginning, middle and end of a roadway, are eternally existing just like when one sees a roadway from above, they see its beginning, middle and end simultaneously.

However, remember that the living anti-matter individual jiva-souls are not the material bodily vessels (decaying matter) they are in as a passenger.

The material bodily vessel is a garment that covers the individual jiva-souls, who are the passenger in that outer garment or material body.

One's relationship with Visnu or Krsna is never impersonal, nor do the individual jiva-souls originate from some nonsense impersonal inactive beginning point in the impersonal brahmajyoti (Krsna's Bodily effulgence)

The word "tatastha-sakti" refers to the marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls) position of having the choice (free-will) to remain in the spiritual world, or enter to the temporary material world.  

The terminology "marginal living entities" (who are the eternal individual jiva-souls) known as tatastha-sakti, is not a place, it is a description of a eternal unique collective of separated individual jiva-souls (meaning they eternally have the free will to choose for themselves that Krsna allows) who were never created, nor will they ever be destroyed.  

So, "marginal" or tatastha-sakti means a collective of eternal individual jiva-souls who are beginningless and endless originating from the spiritual worlds of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, which are their natural home. 

It is due to free will which means the choice to voluntarily participate and contribute in Krsna's pastimes in the way they choose, making the relationship with Krsna a two-way cooperative exchange. 

This also allows the individual jiva-souls to choose to stay in the spiritual world, or enter the mundane material world and forget Krsna, which is also included in the meaning of being a "marginal living entity." 

So, the individual jiva-souls being marginal living entities (tatastha-sakti) also means the individual jiva-souls are on the fence (not literally), meaning they can choose to remain in the spiritual world, or enter the mundane material world, 

As said above, being marginal refers to the individual jiva-souls expressing their free-will the way they choose and having the choice to live in the spiritual world, or the material world. 

So clearly the individual jiva-souls can always choose to remain in their natural original home and position in the spiritual world, or can enter the material world and become a passenger in a temporary material bodily vessel or container. With out such choices meant to establish a "two-way" cooperative voluntary exchange of loving returns and contributions, free will has no meaning and only makes us mindless loveless puppets in a Gods impersonal one-sided dictatorial creation.

So lets be very clear, the "marginal position of the individual jiva-soul" is not a place, it means the individual jiva-souls are sitting on the fence (not literally) and can enter either side, remain in the spiritual world which is their natural home, or enter the temporary mundane material world which in never their home.  

Those individual jiva-souls who have made the choice to leave the spiritual world and enter the temporary decomposing material creation, can later, due to the frustration of material life's painful cycle of repeated birth and death, enter an inactive dormant state known as the Brahmajyoti (the impersonal inactive aspect of Brahman) which is Krsna's Bodily effulgence.  

The marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls) are known in both the material creation and the impersonal Brahmajyoti as tatastha sakti, but not in the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana Prabhupada has explained. 

The potential of being "marginal" is possible in the spiritual world due to free will however, time there is different from the mundane material world's past, present and future, there in the spiritual world time is known as "the eternal presence of Krsna," this means the individual jiva-souls in the spiritual world are not "marginal" as long as they are in that realm of the "eternal presence of Krsna."  

Srila Prabhupada - "So this temporary material world is the taṭastha (materially conditioned) characteristics, and the spiritual world is the permanent (personal) spiritual characteristics. So our effort is to get out of this taṭastha (materially conditioned) characteristics and enter the permanent (personal) characteristics. That is called spiritual elevation." (Lecture CC, Madhya-lila 20.354-358, New York City, Dec 28, 1966)

Srila Prabhupada - "Because the individual soul is apt to fall down sometimes under the clutches of māyā to the material world, it is called taṭastha śakti." (Lecture BG, Ch 7 Text 4-5 Bombay, March 30, 1971)

Maya or the temporary material energy does not exist in the spiritual world however, free will eternally exists there and allows the individual jiva-souls to make their own decisions that includes voluntary offerings and contributions while serving Krsna, or even reject Krsna if they choose. 

Srimad Bhagavatam explains the fall down of the marginal living entity (individual jiva-souls) from the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka Vrindavana to the material world, in the 4th Canto of Srimad Bhagavatam, Chapter 28 text 53, where the Supreme Lord is disguised as a brahmana.

The brāhmaṇa said - "My dear friend, even though you cannot immediately recognize Me, can't you remember that in the past you had a very intimate friend? Unfortunately, you gave up My company and accepted a position as enjoyer of this material world." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 28 text 53)

Revatīnandana dasa - "Srila Prabhupāda you very clearly explained to me once in a letter that if the individual jiva-soul then goes into the brahmajyoti, they are considered still fallen, so does that means the whole brahmajyoti is composed of fallen individual jiva-souls? You see my question? If I go there, I'm an individual jīva-soul and if I go to the brahmajyoti I'm still fallen?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes."

Revatīnandana dasa - "That means all individual jīva-souls there in the impersonal brahmajyoti are also fallen souls?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes." (Room Conversation Aug 17, 1971, London)

Srila Prabhupada - "Existence in the impersonal brahman is also within the category of non-Krsna consciousness, those who are in the brahman effulgence (being inactive) are also in the fallen condition, so there is no question of falling down from a fallen condition." (Letter to Revatinandana dasa, Los Angeles 13 June, 1970).

The individual jiva-souls original position means they have the same bodily features like Krsna, sat-cit-ananda-vigraha (eternity, knowledge, bliss and form.

The full potential and original feature of all marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls) is a two arm form like Krsna's Form in Vrindavana in the spiritual world.

Devotee – "Is the original body of the individual jiva soul a human form?"

Srila Prabhupada – "Yes, human form, God is also human form. "Man is made after the shape of God." I think there is in the Bible, is it not? So God is also like human form. Here you see Krsna, two hands, two legs."

Hari-sauri dasa – "How do we understand, then, that there are peacocks and flowers and trees in the spiritual world? Are these not eternal forms?"

Srila Prabhupada – [describing material form first]: "Yes, they are more covered, just like if you cover your body with blanket, the hands and legs are invisible but you are not the blanket. So the trees and plants means they are more covered. They are not in full manifestation, the human form is the full manifestation of the individual jiva-soul as a spiritual form."

Hari-sauri dasa - "They are covered in the spiritual world?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Not in the spiritual world, there that is always voluntary, some devotee wants to serve Krsna as flower; they become flower there. If I want to be a flower I shall lie down at the lotus feet of Krsna and become flower, voluntarily, and can change from flower to human body. That is spiritual life, there is no restriction. If some devotee wants to serve Krsna as cow, he serves Krsna as cow, as calf, as flower, as plant, as water, as ground, field, as a flagpole, as a chariot, or as father, as mother, as friend, as beloved, anything. It is inconceivable, yet a fact." (SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 1-4 Melb, Australia May 20, 1975)

The marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls) are a collective of an unlimited number of individual jiva-souls who are eternal, this means they have always existed like Krsna and therefore never created. 

As said above, the individual jiva-souls are called tatastha-sakti or marginal because they can remain in their natural position and original home in the spiritual world, or can choose to enter the temporary material world where they become covered by temporary material bodily vessels. Or can fall even further and become artificially dormant (inactive) in the impersonal Brahmajyoti.

Srila Prabhupada - "So we are called taṭastha which is another word for marginal. Marginal means the individual jiva-souls can remain either way, they can choose to be in the spiritual world, or the material world. Either on God's side or māyā's side. That is my choice. So when we don't want to serve God, then we are sent to the māyā, to serve māyā. Māyā means his position as servant remains the same, but he thinks "I am master." That is māyā. He is Just like a child trying to do something father does not like. But when he cries, he's given that. "All right. Do this." But "All right, do this" or "Do that," he is under the father. He is under the control of the father. But when he is given such chance, "Oh, I am independent now. I am independent." So this is called māyā. He's never independent, but he thinks, "I am independent." (Philosophy Discussion on The Evolutionists Thomas Huxley, Henri Bergson, and Samuel Alexander)

Srila Prabhupada - "Marginal means sometimes internal, sometimes external. When we (individual jiva-soul) are under the internal energy, that is our normal life, and when we are under the external energy, that is our abnormal life. Therefore, we are called marginal energy; we can be either this way or that way. But being qualitatively one with the purusa, our tendency is to remain in the internal energy. Being in the external energy is our artificial attempt." (Letter to Lilavati, Allston, Mass 25 April, 1969)

The individual jiva-souls were never created from any origin (having a starting point) because there is no origin of the individual jiva-souls, they have always existed like Krsna has without a beginning or an end.

Having "free will" is the constitutional make up of all marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls), and is always part and parcel of their eternal character and personality within the spiritual world.

The marginal living entity (tatastha-sakti) refers to the individual jiva-souls as "free thinking" individuals sitting on the fence or "border-line" (not literally) meaning they can choose to remain in the spiritual world, or enter the temporary material world.  

However, the individual jiva-souls are not literally sitting on some fence as their original position, no, it refers to their ability to express their free-will in the way they voluntary choose. As said above, tatastha-sakti (the marginal platform of the individual jiva-souls) is not a place, it means they have the ability to choose "this side or that side," to remain in the spiritual world, or enter the material world and become housed as a passenger in a material bodily vessel.  

Tatastha-sakti (marginal living entity) means the individual jiva-souls can choose either side, remain in the spiritual world (living anti-matter), or enter the temporary material world (decaying matter) 

To be clear, this means the saying that the individual jiva-souls are "sitting on the fence," means they always have a choice, to remain in their original position and natural home in the spiritual world, or can enter the temporary material world of repeated birth and death where they are confined (housed) as a passenger in a temporary material bodily vessel created in Maha-Visnu's dreams and "hired" from Him.

This means the individual jiva-souls can always choose to leave the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka-Vrindavana (The Kingdom of God) at any time, this is what free will allows, and if they didn't have free will, then the individual jiva-souls would be like dead stone, unable to express their unique personality by offering their own unique contributions by voluntarily participating and cooperating in a loving two-way exchange, only the can loving exchanges exist.

Srila Prabhupada – "The impersonalist philosophy is oneness so how there be love with just one? Is it possible? Have you got any such experience that love means one? No, love means two, there must be two, the lover and the beloved. Kṛṣṇa is already lover, He loves you so much that He's trying to get you back, that is Kṛṣṇa's attempt - "Please, My dear boy, or My dear friend, My dear servant." (Lecture SB, Canto 2 Ch 1 text 3, Paris, June 12, 1974)

Srila Prabhupada - "So, unless there is a possibility of misusing our free will, there is no question of freedom." (Dialectical Spiritualism, Critique of Descartes).

Srila Prabhupada - "If you have no free will, then you are a stone. The stone has no free will. You want to be stone? Then you must have free will!" (Aug 5, 1976, New Mayapur France)

The paradox here is the individual jiva-souls have their own independence and free will too, even though Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, cause of all causes who knows everything, and is behind everything, and therefore simultaneously one and different from His creation of the living entities and the spiritual and material worlds.

In other words, each individual jiva-soul (devotee) has their own unique personality and character that is seemly always paradoxically separate from Krsna's Personality and absolute control, although we must never forget that Krsna is the cause of all causes behind everything and not a blade of grass can move without His sanction. 

Krsna allows it to be be this way to create diversities within His own creation, where a "two-sided" cooperative or non-cooperative relationship exists between the individual jiva-souls (the eternal servant in their natural position) and Krsna (the creator). 

Krsna never tells His devotees how to think, act or what to offer, He encourages them to voluntary choose their own offerings, He only advices them so the correct standard is understood. 

Krsna prefers His devotees to choose for themselves how to serve Him Srila Prabhupada has explained to us.

Srila Prabhupada - "The individual jiva-soul's position in the spiritual world is always voluntary, some devotees want to serve Krsna as flower; so they become flower there. If I want to be a flower I shall lie down at the lotus feet of Krsna and become flower, voluntarily. And one can change their spiritual bodily form, from flower to human bodily form, that is spiritual life. There is no restriction, if a devotee wants to serve Krsna as cow, they serve Krsna as cow, as calf, as flower, as plant, as water, as ground, as field, as a flagpole, as chair, as a chariot, as a pathway, as father, as mother, as friend, as beloved, anything is possible, it is inconceivable, yet a fact." (SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 1-4, Melb, Australia May 20, 1975)

It is foolish and sad that some big Vedic scholars and Gurus claim once entering the spiritual world, the individual jiva-souls can never again fall down to the material world, which is nonsense, influenced by impersonalism because it denies the individual choice (free will) to participate or not in Krsna's pastimes.

No, the individual jiva-souls (devotees) can fall down again and again if they choose because that is what having "free will" allows. And such fall downs have nothing to do with Maya (the influence of material energy), it is simply the expression of free will.

The fact is, Maya or material energy (decaying matter) does not exist in the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka-Vrindavana (The Kingdom of God), it only exists in Maha-Visnu's dreams of the temporary material world where no individual life (living anti-matter) exists but only enters there then becomes a passenger in material bodily vessel's pathway (decaying matter).  

In fact no individual life (the individual jiva-souls) comes from the material world, all life, beginning with Mahā-Visnu (Kāraṇodakaśāyī Visnu) and His expansions Garbhodakaśāyī Visnu (Hiraņyagarbha) and Ksirodakaśāyī Visnu (Paramātmā) are ultimately an expansion of Lord Balarama, all come from Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, whose original home is Goloka-Vrindavana in the spiritual world beyond the lifeless mundane material world created by His expansion Maha-Visnu.

All other life (the individual jiva-souls or marginal living entities) enters the dead material world only after voluntarily leaving the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the Kingdom of God). 

Technically, the material energy, the material atoms that appear to be dead, are actually "dormant" almost seemingly dead (meaning they are dormant inactive individual jiva-souls) eternally accompanied with Visnu in the form of Paramatma (Supersoul) like all active individual jiva-souls housed in material bodily vessels are too.

In other words, Ksirodakaśāyī Visnu as Paramātmā (God/Krsna), and the "inactive or dormant" individual jiva-souls both exist together in the material atom (decaying matter) in the material world where the individual jiva-souls remain "inactive" (considered almost dead), and Paramātmā (God/Krsna) as the always active witness. This is how Krsna is simultaneously an individual Person, and "all-one" with both His material and spiritual creations.

Śrīla Prabhupāda’s teaches the atomic body generally refers to the material body or the subtle/gross physical structure composed of atomic combinations, as well as the connection to the atomic soul (paramāṇu) that animates matter.

Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the "atomic body" means the material bodily vessel. Because the material world is built from infinitesimal, indivisible material particles (paramāṇus or atoms), any physical body, whether human, animal, or plant, is fundamentally a complex combination of these atomic elements.

Unless the individual jiva-soul becomes liberated (mukta) from the material energy, the cycle of possessing a material/atomic body continues as the individual jiva-soul migrates from one material bodily form to another according to the laws of nature.

The material or atomic body is not just the gross physical frame (flesh, bone, blood); it includes subtle atomic/finer layers such as the mind, intelligence, and false ego (manas, buddhi, ahaṅkāra).

Distinction from the Atomic Soul: Śrīla Prabhupāda distinguishes the atomic body from the atomic individual jiva-soul (ātmā). While the material bodily vessel is temporary and subject to six transformations (birth, growth, maintenance, by-products, decline, and death), the actual individual jiva-soul in the material world residing within the heart of a material bodily vessel is an infinitesimal spiritual spark (measured at one-ten-thousandth the tip of a hair) that gives consciousness to the entire atomic/material structure.

Tamala Krsna Swami - "Srila Prabhupada, someone asked a question the other day about the atom which I couldn’t give the answer to. His question is that if we say that within the atom the living entity, the individual jiva-soul, is present, and life symptoms means six symptoms of birth, growth."

Srila Prabhupada - "That’s all right. Their life symptoms are there yet dormant (inactive) and has not yet reawakened. But there is."

Jayadvaita dasa - "Potential."

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes."

Tamala Krsna Swami - "His question was, it was sort of a dual question. At what time does the individual jiva-soul leave the material body after the material bodily vessel disintegrates? Does the atomic body also disintegrate when the individual jiva-soul leaves the material body and moves to a higher material bodily form?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Atomic body means material body. Unless you are free from the material body, the atomic body (subtle body) will go on with you. That means unless you are mukta (liberated), the atomic body will go on. Mind, intelligence, ego, they are also atomic, finer atomic body."

Tamala Krsna Swami - "But within each atom the individual jiva-soul is present?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, God (Visnu) is present; therefore the individual jiva-soul is present."

Tamala Krsna Swami -"So the individual jiva-soul is present within the atom just as I am present within this body. When I leave this material body, this bodily vessel breaks apart."

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, you leave this material bodily vessel, then enter another material body."

Tamala Krsna Swami -"Right."

Srila Prabhupada - "By nature’s law."

Tamala Krsna Swami -"And when I leave this material bodily vessel, it is because it is breaking down and wearing out."

Srila Prabhupada - "The material body means atomic combination."

Tamala Krsna Swami "Yes."

Srila Prabhupada - "So it remains atomic combination after you leave the material body. When you leave the house, that does not mean the house is finished?"

Hamsaduta dasa - "He’s asking that if the individual jiva-soul leaves the atomic particle, then does the particle break apart?"

Srila Prabhupada - "No, no. You have not left atomic particle."

Tamala Krsna Swami - "You were saying that within the atom there’s also an individual jiva-soul but dormant. So when that individual jiva-soul leaves the atomic particle does the particle break apart? Or doesn’t it?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Just try to understand from sastra, you understand that andantara-stham: “God (Visnu) lives within the atom."

Tamala Krsna Swami - "Yes."

Srila Prabhupada - "And when the God is there, the individual jiva-soul is also there, try to understand that Visnu (God) and the individual jiva-soul remain together as two friends. Krsna/Viṣṇu/God is trying to save His fallen friend. This is the information from Upanisad. So when God is there, the individual jiva-soul is also there."

Rupanuga dasa - "So Paramatma/Visnu (Supersoul) and the individual jiva-soul are always together?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes."

Pancadravida dasa - "The individual jiva-souls inside the atom, are they like impersonalists who are in the impersonal brahmajyoti (brahman)?"

Srila Prabhupada - "That you have to consider. If fallen to the dormant impersonal brahmajyoti, you again have to revive your "active" consciousness after being dormant for so long, until then practically you appear to be almost dead due to no activity." (Based on morning Walk April 4 1975, Mayapur).

In Vedic and spiritual philosophies (such as those expressed in the Bhagavad Gita As It Is), the terms atomic body and atomic soul (anu-atma) represent the fundamental distinction between the material, changing bodily vessel and the immutable individual jiva-soul and Paramatma (as the witness) residing within it.

The individual jiva-soul, infinitesimal (anu), is smaller than a physical atom that provides consciousness, sensation, and awareness to the living being.

The individual jiva-souls are eternally unchangeable, never born, and never die; they do not undergo physical transformation, growth, or decay as explained in Chapter 2 text 12 to text 30 of Bhagavad Gita As It Is.

The prominent individual jiva-soul is situated in the region of the heart, from where its influence (consciousness) spreads throughout the entire body.

The individual jiva-souls passes from one material bodily vessel to another through birth, youth, old age, and eventually death (reincarnation).

The atomic body/material Vessel means the gross and subtle physical structure (comprised of material elements and atoms) encage the individual jiva-soul.

The material bodily vessel that houses the individual jiva-soul as the passenger is, constantly changing, subject to birth, growth, disease, aging, and eventual destruction.

The material bodily vessel acts as a vehicle or instrument through which the individual jiva-soul interacts with the material world, driven by physical and mental needs and desires.

The atomic individual jiva-soul is the conscious experiencer; the atomic/material body is the unconscious matter being animated.

The material bodily vessel the individual jiva-soul is housed in as the passenger, changes constantly from moment to moment and lifetime to lifetime, whereas the atomic individual jiva-soul remains fundamentally the same and indestructible.

The atomic individual jiva-soul is an infinitesimal part-and-parcel of the infinite Supreme Soul (Paramatma/Supersoul), while the body is purely material and distinct from the both the individual jiva-soul and Paramatma (Visnu).

The choice to leave the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana is possible because Krsna allows love to be a "two-way" street, this must also allow one to accept or reject Krsna if they choose because if they are forced to love and serve Krsna without personal voluntary contributions, then free will has no meaning and becomes meaningless. All relationships with Krsna are therefore voluntary, only then can loving exchanges and reciprocation exist.  

Srila Prabhupada  - "Free will means that you can act wrongly. That is free will. Unless there is chance of doing wrong or right, there is no question of free will. Where is free will then? If I act only one sided, that means I have no free will. Because we act sometimes wrongly, that means free will."

Hayagriva dasa - "A man may know better but still act wrongly."

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, but that is free will, he chooses to misuse his free will. Just like a thief, he knows that his stealing is bad but still he does it, that is free will. He cannot check his greediness, so in spite of his knowing that he is doing wrong thing—he will be punished, he knows; he has seen another thief, he was punished, he was put into prison— everything he knows, but still he steals. Why? Because one misuses their free will, unless there is the possibility to misuse one's free will, then there is no question of having free will." (from: Discussions on Rene Descartes philosophy)

Srila Prabhupada – "So everyone can know that independence (free will) means one can use it properly, or one can misuse it. That is independence. If you make it one way only, that is not independence, that is force." (Los Angeles, June 23, 1975)

Srila Prabhupada – "You have got little independence therefore you can violate. Because you are part and parcel of God you have got independence (free will), proportionately, therefore if you likes you can enter the temporary material world if you choose, that independence (free will) has to be accepted, little independence. We can misuse that." (Based on conversation at Mayapur, West Bengal India Feb 19, 1976).

Compiled by Gauragopala Dasa Acbsp in 2026 (initiated by Srila Prabhupada on July 10th 1972 in Sydney Australia).