The mysterious workings of Maha-Visnu's material creation works in a way that not even science fiction writers could never imagine.

All material bodily vessels (matter) in the material creation (also matter), that house in them as a passenger, the life force (anti-matter) known as the "individual jiva-soul," originates from the eternal dreams of Maha-Visnu.

These unlimited varieties of material bodily containers or vessels housing the individual jiva-souls, are an instant alternative for those individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) who reject (fall down) from serving Krsna or Visnu on the Vaikuntha planets, and Goloka-Vrindavana in the spiritual world (the Kingdom of God)

In other words, all material bodily vessels are provided by and hired from Maha-Visnu to those individual jiva-souls who choose to no longer stay in the spiritual world (that takes up 75% of Krsna’s creation) due to their rejection of Krsna and Visnu in an attempt to live separately in the material world (25% of Krsna's creation via His Maha-Visnu expansion).  

It should be also made clear that no individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) originate from Maha-Visnu, they only move into His dreams from the spiritual world to possess (hire) material bodily vessels according to their desires in their journey through the temporary material world created by Maha-Visnu.

There are unlimited material bodily vessels available to those individual jiva-souls who have chosen to leave the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, that places them each within their independent desires without Kṛṣṇa or Visnu within in Maha-Visnu's material creation.

And the individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities), just like Krsna, were never created! Each individual jiva-soul has no origin or end to their existence because they were never created.

The term "individual" is stressed here because spiritual energy (anti-matter) is an unlimited collection of "individual units or individual persons" headed by Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes.

Although Krsna Himself is "all one" with His own creation (actually similtaneously one and different), all His individual jiva-souls expansions are eternally "individual persons" known as the marginal living entites.

Krsna and the individual jiva-souls are like the Sun-disc and the sun-rays, that cannot exist without each other and always exist together.

Therefore Krsna and the individual jiva-souls have always existed and were never created.

HERE HERE

Although the real home of the individual jiva-souls is always in either the Vaikuntha planets of Lord Visnu, or Krsna's central planet of Goloka-Vrindavana, and not living in the temporary mundane material world, or merged inactively (dormant) in the impersonal Brahmajyoti.

From Maha-Visnu's point of view, the movement through material time's past, present and future, all exist simultaneously and is always there as a permanent pathway for unlimited individual jiva-souls to continuously move through.

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 in 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.” (Tokyo Japan 1972 lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam)

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)

The material bodily roadway is a pathway for the individual jiva-soul to moves through past, present and future, from the material bodily vessels pathway start (birth) to its end (death)

These realities of Maha-Visnu's dreaming material creations can be rewinded, they can be fast forwarded, but they can never be changed because He has already dreamed them.

This means each material bodily vessel's pathway is already set in stone from its beginning to its end. In other words, each material bodily "pathway" that the visiting individual jiva-soul travels on/through, comes from the already "dreamed" dreams of Maha-Visnu as said above and can only be lived through and can never changed (hence, set in stone).

The visiting individual jiva-souls who enter the material world and obtain (hire) a material bodily "blue-print" from Maha-Visnu's dreams, are already a set reality from its beginning to its end.

This is why once the individual jiva-soul enter one of Maha-Visnu's dreams, nothing in that material bodily pathway can ever be changed.

Also each material bodily pathway is permanently available and continuously occupied by other visiting individual jiva-souls who have also chosen to leave the spiritual world and enter the temporary material world.

"Linear time" is the movement from past to present and then to future. Linear time is where time is seen sequentially, as a series of events that are leading along a pathway, from experiencing its beginning middle and end.

Seeing the entire journey on a long and winding road all at once, is seeing above Linear time.

Maha-Visnu and rare yogis and devotees can see above Linear time like one sees an entire roadway "from above," its beginning, middle and end all at once. 

All material bodily vessels are chosen (hired) from Maha-Visnu's dreams, His collection of material bodily vessels from His permanent volt of dreams are lived out by the visiting individual jiva-souls in linear time.

This means all material bodily vessels are like a costume that is "hired out" from the costume shop owner Maha-Visnu.

All of the individual jiva-soul's desires, choices and expressions of "free will," are factored in before the individual jiva-soul is given a particular material bodily vessel to enter the material world.

Therefore, free will also always exists but only partially in the human material bodily form (400 thousand different species of humans) and not the other 8 million species of lower life forms in the material world who are all controlled by the material bodily instincts of eating, sleeping, mating and defending and not free will.

Maha-Visnu sees all, beginning, middle and end of all material bodily vessels because He is God and knows all past, present and future.

As said above, all material bodily vessels are pathways that are the dreams of Maha-Visnu.

Paradoxically there is always "free will" but only in the human species. Each material bodily vessels destiny that the visiting individual jiva-soul experience by hiring them off Maha-Visnu, is already mapped out within the permanent dreams of Maha-Visnu explained above.

Remember, "free will" is factored into the equation in such a way that the free will of each individual jiva-soul is not affected.

Therefore, we can understand that free will always exists in the spiritual world which allows the individual jiva-souls to except or even reject Krsna, by choosing to leave Krsna's association or stay with Him. Fortunately, only less than 10% of individual jiva-souls (devotees) choose to leave the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka-Vrindavana (the spiritual world).  

Such freedom must be there if love truly exists in the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka Vrindavana.

So, from the mistaken desires of the rebellious individual jiva-souls, that begins when they put their own selfish desires in the centre, instead of first pleasing Krsna, they are "forced" to choose a material bodily vessel from Maha-Visnu's "library of dreams" that transfers them to His temporary material world and into a temporary material bodily vessel from Maha-Visnu's dreams.

This is the beginning of the individual jiva-souls fall down to the material world from the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka-Vrindavana.

But such fall downs are very rare, less than 10% of jiva-souls fall down from the Spiritual Planets.

Rejecting Krsna means the jiva-soul can no longer stay in the Spiritual World and is therefore instantaneously transferred out of Vaikuṇṭha or Goloka Vṛndāvana and relocated to the dream bodies of Maha Visnu (the pathway of material bodily vessels) material creation.

The jiva-soul already knows and agrees with the entire pathway or journey they have because their "desires" are in sync with the bodily pathway (material bodily vessel) from Maha Visnu's dreams they will enter.

Within Maha-Visnu's material creation exists every possible "dream" to fulfil every desire the visiting jiva-souls have, every scenario they can come up with is eternally existing in Maha Visnu's dreams.  

This means the jiva-soul's ability to express "free will" is already factored into the equation of the destiny of the material bodily vessel one has chosen to enter as 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 nonmoving is here completely, in one place".

Purport

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" (Bhagavad-gītā As It Is Chapter 11 Text 7)

The great sages and devotees in previous ages thousands of years ago were "tri-kāla-jñā".

Tri-kāla-jñā means they could understand -

1 - What was in the past,

2 - What there shall be in the future,

3 - And what is at present.

Srila Prabhupada - ''So the point is that five thousand years ago the things which were written for this age, how they are coming to be true in our experience. That is the point: how they could see past, present, and future so nicely.

The sages were known as tri-kāla-jñā. Tri means three. There is almost similarity, tri and three. Tri is Sanskrit, and three is English or Latin, but there is similarity. Tri-kāla-jñā.

Tri means three, and kāla means time.

Time is experienced by three ways: 

past, 

present,

future. 

Time limitation, past, present and future. Whenever you speak of time, it is past, present or future.

So the sages in those days were tri-kāla-jñā. Tri-kāla-jñā means they could understand, they could know what was in the past, what there shall be in the future, and what is at present.

Just like in the Bhagavad gītā 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''. (Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 12 Chapter 2 Text 1 San Francisco, March 18, 1968)

There is still a lot more to learn about the movement of the marginal living entity (jiva-soul) through material space/time's past, present and future.

We have only scratched the surface in understanding Vedic texts in the 50 years since Srila Prabhupada made his valuable contribution to the Western World.

The movement of space/time in the temporary material creation is eternally divided into past, present and future as a roadway that has its beginning point (birth), middle (youth and middle age) and end of the roadway (old age and death), but ONLY while the individual jiva-souls are covered by these material bodily vessels governed by the movement of material time.

"Temporary" means the decaying progression of material time's past, present and future thats effect is birth, youth,  middle age, old age and death.

Whereas in the Spiritual Worlds there is only the "permanence" of the "eternal presence" of Krsna where everything is eternally fresh, youthful and never decomposes 

In the Spiritual Planets the jiva-souls ARE their body and no longer possess a material decaying bodily vessel or covering.

All material bodily vessels or bodily containers, are part and parcel of the fabric of material energies space/time that governs the temporary material creation and takes up 1/4 of the Spiritual Sky (matter)

The other 3/4s of the Spiritual Sky are the permanent eternally youthful Spiritual Worlds (anti-matter) eternally existing in the "eternal presence" beyond the decaying influence of past, present and future that only exists in the material creation.

In the material creation's bodily vessels, the jiva-souls are there as the passengers who are riding within the material energies fabric of material bodily vessels. 

Each material body is made of material energy that the jiva-souls possess.

The individual marginal living entities (jiva-souls) are the passengers in the material body made of material energy.

Material energy is "all one" dead matter when no longer held together by bodily form possessed by an individual jiva-soul (anti-matter).

1 - "Matter" is lifeless dead energy existing in the material creation.

2 - "Anti-matter" is living individual living entities AS Spiritual bodily forms that pervades the Spiritual Worlds of the Vaikuntha Planets and Goloka-Vrindavana.

The jiva-soul ARE life whereas the material energy does not, it is simply dead matter.

All material bodily vessels are given to the jiva-souls by Maha Visnu (from His dreams) according to their "desires".

And as the embodied jiva-soul continues their journey in the material creation life after life, the accumulation of reactions from acting out those original desires, creates pious and impious reactions, but ONLY in a human material body.

There is no Karma (being responsible for your actions) in the lower species of life where one acts only on the instincts of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. 

From the viewpoint of Maha Visnu and great sages, they see past, present and future in the material creation all exist simultaneously.

Just like from above one can see the beginning, middle and end of a long winding roadway.

And also even with mundane logic, the material desires of an individual marginal living entity (jiva-soul) would eventually repeat themselves again over the span of eternity if they stayed in the material creation that long.

This is because every combination of material elements would be exhausted, and would eventually start repeating themselves over an eternity, if the jiva-soul chooses to remain in the material creation for an almost eternity.

This is possible because the jiva-souls (marginal living entities) are eternal. 

But what is really going on?

Even though the material energy is temporary and always decays, the material energy itself is eternal but when destroyed will eventually again reappear due the movement of past, present and future.

Many have asked, could the past activities of a material body one chooses from Maha Visnu's dreams, still be happening in the universe's "same space" but happening in a different "time", with another individual jiva-soul playing that same part?

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

This is because past, present and future are happening "always" (simultaneously) and are a permanent fixture of the fabric of material energy.

This means all material bodily vessel are like a permanent 'POST' or roadway that many jiva-souls can also experience its journey.

Just like Lord Brahma's material body is also a POST that many jiva-souls can experience if qualified to attain the material body of Brahma.

This further means only those jiva-souls with the right qualifactions can experience what ever bodily vessel they are offered, but only if they deserve it.

To be qualified for any material bodily vessel, one must be trained up and simultaneously have corresponding desires to qualify and enter a particular material bodily vessel they deserve, desire, rewarded with or punished with.

Once in the material creation, the jiva-souls will eventually take a material body created by their own karma (past good and bad actions)

It is also seems to some that the material universe of material bodily containers or vessels are repeating itself, except with a different batch of individual jiva-souls possessing all material bodily vessels.

Some philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche call this the "eternal reoccurrence"

But NO, that is NOT what is going on, there is no such thing as eternal reoccurrence, there is only the permanent roadway of material bodily vessels the jiva-souls are eternally travelling through.

This means EVERYTHING already exists eternally and the jiva-souls just move through those permanent pathways of material energy (dreams of Maha-Visnu).

The "material body" is NOT the PERSON, the material vessel is made of material elements that a jiva-soul is covered by and travels through.***.

Garbhodakaśāyī Visnu also known as Hiraņyagarbha, and Ksirodakaśāyī Visnu also known as Paramātmā and Supersoul, are both expansions of Mahā-Visnu also known as Kāraṇodakaśāyī Visnu.

All three are all ultimately expansions of Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes. All these Visnu expansions and all Visnu expansions actually appear from Krsna's first expansion Balarama, also known as Baladeva who is Kṛṣṇa's older brother in Krsna lila (pastimes) in Goloka-Vrindavana the Kingdom of God.

In Gaudīya Vaisnavism the Sātvata-tantra describes three different forms of Visnu as- 

1 - Mahā-Visnu who is also known as Kāraṇodakaśāyī Visnu 

2 - Garbhodakaśāyī Visnu also known as Hiraņyagarbha.

3 - Ksirodakaśāyī Visnu (Paramātmā or Supersoul). 

Lord Brahma sits on the top of a lotus stem on a flower that grows from the naval of Garbhodakaśāyī Visnu, who's material universe exists deep inside, and is surrounded by a greater massive material universe called a Brahmanda. 

Inside the inner secondary universe, Lord Brahma creates the 14 different material planetary systems and their administrating posts (for the demigods).

No individual jiva-souls originates from the material world, the impersonal brahmajyoti or the Body of Maha-Visnu Srila Prabhupada has explained, the individual jiva-souls are eternal, they were never created, nor will they ever die as Chapter 2 text 12 to text 30 of Bhagavad Gita As It Is explains.

Although, because of "free will," they can fall down from their natural eternal home in the spiritual world known as the Vaikuṇṭha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana and enter the temporary material world.  

However, less than 10% of individual jiva-souls (devotees) choose to fall down from the spiritual world, 90% never fall down because they choose not too. 

Each of the three Visnus have different roles in the maintenance of the material universe and providing for those inhabitants (individual jiva-souls) who have chosen to come to the material world from either the Vaikuntha planets or Krsna's central Abode Goloka Vrindavana in the spiritual world.

Srila Prabhupada - "For material creation, Lord Krsna's plenary expansion assumes three Visnus. 

1 - The first, Mahā-Viṣṇu or Kāraṇodakaśāyī Visnu, creates the total material energy, known as the mahat-tattva. 

2 - The second, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, enters into all the universes to create diversities.

3 - And the third, Kṣīrodakaśāyī Visnu, is diffused as the all-pervading super soul in all the universes; in the heart of every living being, is known as Paramātmā and Supersoul. 

Lord Visnu is present even within the atoms.

The real objective of meditation in yoga is attaining a state of Paramātmā. Anyone who realises them can be liberated from material entanglement." 

Sātvata-tantra - Books or literature of devotional service by Srila Prabhupada.

Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is an expansion or overload of Mahā-Viṣhu (expansion of Saṃkarṣaṇa of second caturvyūha, which expands from Nārāyaṇa in Vaikuṇṭhaloka). The latter is realized as the expansion of Pradyumna.

Srila Prabhupada - "The three puruṣa-avatāras are described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. They are also described in the Sātvata-tantra. Viṣṇos tu trīṇi rūpāṇi puruṣākhyāny atho viduḥ: the Supreme Personality of Godhead manifests three features—as

Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu (Maha Visnu), 

Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu 

Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu (Paramatma and Supersoul)

Mahā-Viṣṇu, or Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, is described in the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.47). Yaḥ kāraṇārṇava-jale bhajati sma yoga-nidrām: the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, the cause of all causes, lies down in the cosmic ocean as Mahā-Viṣṇu. 

Therefore the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the beginning of this universe, the maintainer of the universal manifestations, and the end of all energy." (BG, Ch 10 text 20 purport).

Srila Prabhupada - "The Mahā-Viṣṇu, into whom all the innumerable universes enter and from whom they come forth again simply by His breathing process, is a plenary expansion of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore I worship Govinda, Kṛṣṇa, the cause of all causes. Therefore one should conclusively worship the personal form of Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead who has eternal bliss and knowledge. He is the source of all forms of Viṣṇu, He is the source of all forms of incarnation, and He is the original Supreme Personality, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā." (BG, Ch 11 text 54 purport)

Srila Prabhupada - "This part of the spiritual sky, called the mahat-tattva (material universes), is only an insignificant portion of the whole spiritual sky, and within this mahat-tattva there are innumerable material universes. All these material universes are collectively produced by the Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, called also the Mahā-Viṣṇu, who simply throws His glance to impregnate the material sky." (SB, Canto 1 Ch 3 text 1 purport).

Srila Prabhupada - "They can see only the circular sky overhead, without any information that this material universe, as well as many other hundreds of thousands of material universes, are each covered by sevenfold material coverings of- 

1 - water, 

2 - fire, 

3 - air, 

4 - sky, 

5 - ego, 

6 - material nature (mahat-tattva), 

7 - noumenon.

This is a summary of phenomenal and noumenal philosophy. The phenomenal world depends on the noumenal existence; similarly, everything exists by virtue of the potency of the Supreme Lord, although due to our ignorance the Supreme Lord is not perceived in everything." (SB, Canto 5 Ch 12 text 8, Purport)

 Srila Prabhupada - "Just like a huge football, pumped and covered, floating on the water of the Causal Ocean, wherein the Lord is lying as Mahā-Viṣṇu. All the universes in seed are emanating from the breathing of the Mahā-Viṣṇu, who is but part of a partial expansion of the Lord, and all the universes presided over by the Brahmās vanish when the Mahā-Viṣṇu withdraws His great breath. In this way, the material worlds are being created and vanished by the supreme will of the Lord." (SB Canto 2 Ch 1 text 25 purport)

Srila Prabhupada - "He expands Himself by His different energies, as well as by His plenary portions. In a corner of the spiritual sky of brahmajyoti a spiritual cloud sometimes appears, and the covered portion is called the mahat-tattva. The Lord then, by His plenary portion as Mahā-Viṣṇu, lies down within the water of the mahat-tattva, and the water is called the Causal Ocean (Kāraṇa-jala). While Mahā-Viṣṇu sleeps within the Causal Ocean, innumerable universes are generated along with His breathing. These universes are floating, and they are scattered all over the Causal Ocean. They stay only during the breathing period of Mahā-Viṣṇu. In each and every universal globe, the same Mahā-Viṣṇu enters again as Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and lies there on the serpentlike Śeṣa incarnation. From His navel sprouts a lotus stem, and on the lotus, Brahmā, the lord of the universe, is born. Brahmā creates all forms of living beings of different shapes in terms of different desires within the universe. He also creates the sun, moon and other demigods." (SB, Canto 2 Ch 5 text 33 purport).

Srila Prabhupada - "In the Bṛhad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣad (1.4.1) there is the hymn ātmaivedam agra āsīt puruṣa-vidhaḥ. This mantra indicates the Supreme Personality of Godhead (Kṛṣṇa) even before the appearance of the puruṣa incarnation. In the Bhagavad-gītā (15.18) it is said that Lord Kṛṣṇa is Puruṣottama because He is the supreme puruṣa, transcendental even to the puruṣa-akṣara and the puruṣa-kṣara. The akṣara-puruṣa, or the Mahā-Viṣṇu, throws His glance over prakṛti, or material nature, but the Puruṣottama existed even before that. The Bṛhad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣad therefore confirms the statement of the Bhagavad-gītā that Lord Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Person (Puruṣottama)." (SB, Canto Ch 2 Ch 9 text 33 purport).

Srila Prabhupada - "There are three different types of creation, called mahā-kalpa, vikalpa and kalpa. In the mahā-kalpa the Lord assumes the first puruṣa incarnation as Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu with all the potencies of the mahat-tattva and the sixteen principles of creative matter and instruments. The creative instruments are eleven, the ingredients are five, and all of them are products of mahat, or materialistic ego. These creations by the Lord in His feature of Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu are called mahā-kalpa. The creation of Brahmā and dispersion of the material ingredients are called vikalpa, and the creation by Brahmā in each day of his life is called kalpa. Therefore each day of Brahmā is called a kalpa, and there are thirty kalpas in terms of Brahmā's days." (SB, Canto 2 Ch 10 text 46 purport).

Srila Prabhupada - "Every living being is controlled by the supreme living being, Paramātmā, who resides within everyone's heart. He is the puruṣa, the puruṣa-avatāra, who creates this material world. The first puruṣa-avatāra is Mahā-Viṣṇu, and that Mahā-Viṣṇu is the plenary portion of the plenary portion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa's first expansion is Baladeva (Balarama), and His next expansions are Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Aniruddha and Pradyumna." (SB, Canto 5 Ch 11 text 13-14 purport).

Srila Prabhupada - "Kṛṣṇa is the origin of all viṣṇu-tattvas, including Mahā-Viṣṇu, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. He is the ultimate goal of Vaiṣṇava philosophy. Everything emanates from Him. His body is completely spiritual and is the source of all spiritual being." (CC, 2:20:153 purport).

Srimad Bhagavatam - "The first covering of our secondary material universe deep inside the outer massive Brahmanda universe that surrounds and encases our single universe, is the "earth" element." (SB, Canto 6 C 16 text 37)

In most references in Srimad Bhagavatam, it says the ''earth" element is the first layer of our small single inner material universe's outer surrounding massive Brahmanda greater universe. There are billions of these Brahmanda greater egg shaped universal shells, each with a smaller single material universe of planetary systems deep inside them. All the massive Brahmanda material universes originates from the Body of Maha-Visnu as seen in photo below.

Although elsewhere in Srimad-Bhagavatam, Canto 3 Chapter 26 text 52, says water is the first layer, most references say the seven layers of the Brahmanda our single secondary universe is in, begins with the earth element.

Srimad Bhagavatam - "Every universe is covered by seven layers—earth, water, fire, air, sky, the total energy and false ego—each ten times greater than the previous one. There are innumerable universes besides this one, and although they are unlimitedly large, they move about like atoms in You. Therefore You are called unlimited [ananta]." (SB, Canto 6 Ch 16 text 37)

Srila Prabhupāda - "This verse describes the coverings of the universe (saptabhir daśa-guṇottarair aṇḍa-kośaḥ). The coverings of our secondary material universe that is inside the surrounding Brahmanda larger material universe are-

1 - Earth,

2 - Water,

3 - Fire,

4 - Air,

5 - Sky,

6 - Total material energy (mahat-tattva),

7 - False ego.

Beginning with the covering of earth, each covering is ten times greater than the previous one. Thus we can only imagine how great each the Brahmanda material universe is, and there are many millions of these material universes." (SB, Canto 6 Ch 16 text 37 Purport)

Srila Prabhupada - "The mahat-tattva, the total material energy, is called avyakta. Then, when it is agitated by the glance of the Supreme Lord, the three modes of material nature acts. And by interaction of these three modes of material nature, the whole cosmic manifestation comes into being." (Lecture SB, Canto 1 Ch 2 text 33 Vrndavana, Nov 12, 1972)

Srila Prabhupada - "So actually, there are twenty-six different elements which is conducting this material world. Etat kṣetraṁ samāsena sa-vikāram udāhṛtam. Kṣetra means this body. Either you take this body or this material world, they are interaction of these twenty-four elements. Either you take the gigantic body of this universe or you take the body of this planet or you take this your body, my body, or a cat's body, dog's body, all these bodies, they are formed of these twenty-four elements, sa-vikāram, by action and reaction. 

Just like chemically, if you mix one chemical with another chemical, a third element is produced, similarly, originally the reservation of all these elements is called mahat-tattva. It is called pradhāna, upadhāna. So gradually they manifest, they divide by three guṇas. Three guṇas means in the mahat-tattva, in the total material reservoir, three guṇas, three modes of nature, first of all appear and they act with one another, and then gradually, one after another, the twenty-four elements become manifested. Etat kṣetraṁ samāsena sa-vikāram udāhṛtam." (Lecture BG, Ch 13 text 6-7 Montreal, Oct 25, 1968)

Srila Prabhupada - "So mahat-tattva, the total material energy, what are those? The five elements, namely, earth, water, fire, air, and sense objects and senses and the spirit soul. In this way, sixteen. And from sixteen, it expands to twenty-four. That is the explanation of our Vedic creation. Ṣoḍaśa-kalam." (Lecture SB, Canto 1 Ch 3 text 1 Vrndavana, Nov 14, 1972)

Srila Prabhupada - "The total energy of material creation is called mahat-tattva or pradhāna. Then, when the mahat-tattva is agitated by the three guṇas, then they become divided into twenty-four elements." (Lecture SB, Canto 3 Ch 26 text 11-14 Bombay, Dec 23, 1974)

Srila Prabhupada - "That mahat-tattva is above this universe, above the sky. Above the sky there are seven layers. Each layer is ten times more than the other layer. In this way, that is called mahat-tattva. Total material elements, they are stocked there. And then these varieties take place. And above that mahat-tattva, there is spiritual world." (Lecture SB, Canto 3 Ch 26 text 10 Bombay, Dec 22, 1974)

Srila Prabhupada - "As confirmed by the Lord Himself in Bhagavad-gītā (BG 10.42)-

athavā bahunaitena

kiṁ jñātena tavārjuna

viṣṭabhyāham idaṁ kṛtsnam

ekāṁśena sthito jagat.

"But what need is there, Arjuna, for all this detailed knowledge? With a single fragment of Myself I pervade and support this entire universe." The entire material world manifests is only one fourth of the Supreme Lord's energy. Therefore He is called ananta." (SB, Canto 2 Ch 2 text 28 Purport)

Srila Prabhupada - "The extent of the cosmic phenomenon or our individual universe is calculated to be diametrically four billion miles in size. Then the outer covering known as the Brahmanda universal shell begins. The first covering of earth element is calculated to extend forty billion miles, (10 times the size of the inner universe) and the subsequent coverings of the universe are respectively of water, fire, air, sky, total material energy, false ego one after another, each extending ten times further than the previous. The fearless devotee of the Lord penetrates each one of them and ultimately reaches the absolute atmosphere where everything is of one and the same spiritual identity. Then the devotee enters one of the Vaikuṇṭha planets, where he assumes exactly the same form as the Lord and engages in the loving transcendental service of the Lord. That is the highest perfection of devotional life. Beyond this there is nothing to be desired or achieved by the perfect yogī." (SB, Canto 2 Ch 2 text 28 Purport)

Srimad Bhagavatam - "The material coverings of the massive Brahmanda universe that encases and surrounds our inner secondary smaller material universe are-

1 - The first layer is of earth and is ten times greater in size than the space within the universe. 

2 - The second layer is water, and that is ten times greater than the earthly layer.

3 - The third covering is fire, which is ten times greater than the water covering. 

In this way each of the seven layers are ten times greater than the previous one." (SB Canto 3 Ch 29 text 43)

Srimad Bhagavatam explains there are millions of individual massive Brahmanda material universes coming from Maha-Visnu making up the material creation (1/4 of the Spiritual Sky), each Brahmanda housing their own secondary universe universe inside them as painting below reveals. The other 75% of the Spiritual Sky are the Vaikuntha planets governed by Visnu and Luxmi, and Goloka-Vrindavana, the perpetual Abode of Krsna and His eternal consort Radharani, friends and family. 

All secondary material universes inside their Brahmandas in the material world are of different sizes, some, like ours, are only 4 billion miles in diameter.

Our 4 billion miles (500,000,000 yojanas) diameter material universe with its 14 planetary systems that are deep inside our Brahmanda, is one of the smallest material universes, it would also fit in the description of Bhu-Mandala (4 billion miles, which is 500,000,000 yojanas in diameter)

The late Sadaputa dasa ACBSP (Richard L. Thompson) earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University. He is the author of several books on Vedic Cosmology explain what Bhu-Mandala is-

''In the Bhagavatam, Bhu-Mandala—the “earth mandala” (not to be confused with our small earth globe), is a disk 500 million yojanas in diameter (4 billion miles).

One yojana is a unit of distance that equals about 8 miles long, therefore 8×500 million yojanas = 4 billion miles. So, the diameter of Bhu-Mandala is about 4 billion miles which is also the size of our secondary material universe deep inside or Brahmanda material universe according to Srimad Bhagavatam.

Bhu-Mandala is marked by circular features designated as islands (Dvipas that can also mean planets) and oceans.

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Srila Prabhupada - "The planets are called "dvīpas." Outer space is like an ocean of air. Just as there are islands in the watery ocean, these planets in the ocean of space are called dvīpas, or islands in outer space." (CC, Madhya 20.218, Purport)

So clearly, Bhu-Mandala is far too big to be our small earth global sphere we live on.

Sadaputa dasa - "Of course, Bhu-Mandala is earth centered, its innermost island, Jambudvipa, contains Bharata-varsha, which Srila Prabhupada has repeatedly identified as the planet earth." (Vedic Cosmology by Sadaputa dasa)

Srila Prabhupada - "We have to imagine that these universes (Brahmandas), which according to our limited knowledge are expanded unlimitedly, are so great that the gross and subtle ingredients—the five elements of the cosmic manifestation, namely earth, water, fire, air and sky, along with the total material energy and false ego—are not only within the universe but cover the universe in seven layers, each layer ten times bigger than the previous one. In this way, each and every universe is very securely packed, and there are numberless universes. All these universes float within the innumerable pores of the transcendental body of Mahā-Viṣṇu. It is stated that just as the atoms and particles of dust are floating within the air along with the birds and their number cannot be calculated, so innumerable universes are floating within the pores of the transcendental body of the Lord. For this reason, the Vedas say that God is beyond the grasp of our knowledge."(Krsna Book 87)

We cannot therefore see from one material universe to another, this is because our individual secondary material universe is surrounded and encased by 7 massive material layers that is the Brahmanda material universe we are in. 

So, it is impossible to see the millions of other Brahmandas outside our inner secondary material universe (inside the massive Brahmanda) because of those 7 material layers.

However, there are rare mystic yogis and advanced devotees like Arjuna who can see and pass through those 7 material layers. So of course Krsna and Arjuna did not encounter such limitations that we experience with the combination of these elements earth, water, fire, air, sky, false ego, mahat-tattva - all gross elements as Bhagavad Gita explains.

Srila Prabhupada - "The Lord is not visible to the eyes of ordinary men, those who are beyond the covering layers because of their transcendental devotional service can still see Him." (Krsna Book 87)

We cannot see through our Brahmanda universal shell that surrounds and encases our secondary material universe we are in.

Srila Prabhupada is clear on this point.

Srila Prabhupada - "Lord Krsna and Arjuna crossed over the great region of darkness covering the material universes. Arjuna then saw the effulgence of light known as the brahmajyoti. The brahmajyoti is situated ''outside the covering of the material universes'', and because it cannot be seen with our present eyes, this brahmajyoti is sometimes called avyakta." (Krsna Book, 89)

Srila Prabhupada - "Each universe is covered by various layers of material elements (The 7 material layers of the outer Brahmanda covering), and therefore although the material universes are clustered together, we cannot see from one universe to another. In other words, whatever we see is within this one universe. In each material universe there is one Lord Brahmā, and there are other demigods on other planets, but there is only one sun in each material universe within the Brahmanda." (SB, Canto 5 Ch 21 text 11, Purport)

Srila Prabhupāda - "Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī confirms that a part of the material nature, after being initiated by the Lord, is known as the mahat-tattva.

1 - A fractional portion of the mahat-tattva is called the false ego. 

2 - A portion of the ego is the vibration of sound.

3 - A portion of sound is atmospheric air.

4 - A portion of the airy atmosphere is turned into forms. 

5 - Forms constitute the power of electricity or heat.

6 - Heat produces the smell of the aroma of the earth.

7 - The gross earth is produced by such aroma. 

8 - And all these combined together constitute the cosmic phenomenon.

The extent of the cosmic phenomenon or our individual universe is calculated to be diametrically four billion miles in size. Then the outer covering, known as the Brahmanda shell begins. The first covering of earth is calculated to extend forty billion miles, (10 times the size of the inner material universe inside Brahmanda) And the subsequent coverings of the universe are respectively of water, fire, air, sky, total material energy, false ego one after another, each extending ten times further than the previous.

The fearless devotee of the Lord penetrates each one of them and ultimately reaches the absolute atmosphere where everything is of one and the same spiritual identity. Then the devotee enters one of the Vaikuṇṭha planets, where he assumes exactly the same form as the Lord and engages in the loving transcendental service of the Lord. That is the highest perfection of devotional life. Beyond this there is nothing to be desired or achieved by the perfect yogī." (SB, Canto 2 Ch 2 text 28)

Srimad Bhagavatam - "Every universe is covered by seven layers- 

earth, 

water, 

fire, 

air, 

sky, 

the total energy,

false ego.

Each ten times greater than the previous one. There are innumerable universes besides this one, and although they are unlimitedly large, they move about like atoms in You. Therefore You are called unlimited [ananta]." (SB, Canto 6 Ch 16 text 37)

Srila Prabhupada - "The Brahma-saṁhitā (5.48) says-

yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam athāvalambya

jīvanti loma-vilajā jagad-aṇḍa-nāthāḥ

viṣṇur mahān sa iha yasya kalā-viśeṣo

govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

The origin of the material creation is Mahā-Viṣṇu, who lies in the Causal Ocean. While He sleeps in that ocean, millions of universes are generated as He exhales, and they are all annihilated when He inhales. This Mahā-Viṣṇu is a plenary portion of a portion of Viṣṇu, Govinda (yasya kalā-viśeṣaḥ). The word kalā refers to a plenary portion of a plenary portion. From Kṛṣṇa, or Govinda, comes Balarāma; from Balarāma comes Saṅkarṣaṇa; from Saṅkarṣaṇa, Nārāyaṇa; from Nārāyaṇa, the second Saṅkarṣaṇa; from the second Saṅkarṣaṇa, Mahā-Viṣṇu; from Mahā-Viṣṇu, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu; and from Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu controls every material universe. 

This gives an idea of the meaning of ananta, unlimited. What is to be said of the unlimited potency and existence of the Lord? This verse describes the coverings of the universe (saptabhir daśa-guṇottarair aṇḍa-kośaḥ). The first covering is earth, the second is water, the third is fire, the fourth is air, the fifth is sky, the sixth is the total material energy, and the seventh is the false ego. Beginning with the covering of earth, each covering is ten times greater than the previous one. Thus we can only imagine how great each universe is, and there are many millions of universes. As confirmed by the Lord Himself in Bhagavad-gītā (10.42)-

athavā bahunaitena

kiṁ jñātena tavārjuna

viṣṭabhyāham idaṁ kṛtsnam

ekāṁśena sthito jagat

"But what need is there, Arjuna, for all this detailed knowledge? With a single fragment of Myself I pervade and support this entire universe." The entire material world manifests only one fourth of the Supreme Lord’s energy. Therefore He is called ananta." (SB, Canto 6 Ch 16 text 37 Purport)

Is the first layer of our outer Brahmanda shell Earth or water?

There is some passages in Bhagavatam that says the first layer is earth and other places it says the first layer is water.

As said above, Srimad Bhagavatam says there are 7 layers that make up our outer Brahmanda shell that surrounds our single inner material universe inside it. The circumference of our small secondary material universe inside our Brahmanda is a mere 12.6 billion miles. And within that area are the 14 planetary systems.

Srila Prabhupada - "The extent of the cosmic phenomenon or our individual universe is calculated to be diametrically four billion miles in size. Then the outer covering known as the Brahmanda shell begins. The first covering of earth is calculated to extend forty billion miles, (10 times the size of the inner universe) and the subsequent coverings of the universe are respectively of water, fire, air, sky, total material energy, false ego one after another, each extending ten times further than the previous." (SB, Canto 2 Ch 2 text 28 Purport)

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura refers to the circumference of our Brahmanda universal shell our single universe is within in following text-

Caitanya Caritamrita - "Kṛṣṇa said, ‘Your particular universe has a diameter of four billion miles; therefore it is the smallest of all the universes. Consequently you have only four heads." (CC Madhya 21.84)

Srila Prabhupada - "Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, one of the greatest astrologers of his time, gives information from the Siddhānta-śiromaṇi that this universe measures 18,712,069,200,000,000 x 8 miles.

[That's 18 quadrillion, 712 trillion, 69 billion, 200 million yojanas. So, multiply that figure by 8 to get miles which is 149 quadrillion 696 trillion 553 Billion 600 million miles in circumference!]

This is the circumference of this Brahmanda universe according to some, this is only half the circumference to others." (CC Madhya 21.84 Purport)

It seems this is circumference of our ''Brahmanda universal shell'' that includes our 4 billion mile diameter universe that is deep within it. The diameter of the massive Brahmanda with its 7 material layers is 44 quadrilllion, 444 trillion, 444 billion miles. However, if measured from the outer edge of the inner 4 billion mile diameter "secondary material universe" inside it, then it is twice that figure.##.

The so called "Block material universe" is the dreams of Maha-Visnu where past, present and future exist simultaneously, eternally existing in the "now."

The truth about the spiritual world (anti-matter) and material world (matter) is they were built (created) and expanded by a PERSON, by Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes. 

The unlimited material universes that take up 25% of all creation, were built (created) by Krsna's representative in the material world Maha-Visnu.

The spiritual world (anti-matter) that houses the unlimited Vaikuntha planets were Visnu/Narayana reside, and Goloka-Vrindavana where Radha and Krsna reside, take up 75% of all creation.

The fact is, the so called "Block material universe," now popular in modern science in 2026, is actually describing "the active dreams" of Maha-Visnu that are real but temporary.

His material dreams include the movement of past, present and future existing together simultaneously like a roadway that has a beginning, middle and end seen from above.

This means Krsna's expansion in the material world Maha-Visnu, sees everything in the material world, just like from above one can see the entire length of a long winding road. Maha-Visnu sees all past, present and future simultaneously.

This "Block material universe" is Maha-Visnu's "Universal Library of Dreams" which are an unlimited and endless variety of material bodily vessels and combinations (roadways and pathways) that the individual jiva-souls can "hire" from Maha-Visnu and occupy a material bodily vessel that matches their choices (dreams), like one wears a garment of clothing that matches their mood and desires.

In the "Block material universe" (Maha-Visnu's dreams), every  possible senerio and combination of matter exists, which means all the unlimited combinations of material bodily containers or vessels.

We must not forget that eveything in the material world are the dreams of Maha-Visnu.

Srila Prabhupada - "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) 

All the living entities (anti-matter) which is Kṛṣṇa and His Visnu-tattva direct expansions, Siva and the independent individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) are not part of the "lifeless" material creation (matter) meaning the temporary material world is not their real permanent home.

"Anti-matter" is living spiritual individual personalities in  the spiritual world where everything is alive, while "matter" is lifeless dead material energy known as the mundane material world. 

It is obvious the temporary decaying material world (matter) is not their original home which is eternal and outside of this temporary lifeless material world.

The original eternal home of all individual life is from the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka Vrindavana (anti-matter), although Lord Siva who is in a special unique category of his own who prefers to stay in the material world even though he has his own spiritual abode. (He is not Visnu-tattva [Krsna's direct expansion] or jiva-tattva [individual jiva-soul].

In the mundane "Block material universe" (the temporary material world created by Maha-Visnu) every possible material bodily combination of matter exists and is experienced on the roadway that always exists as a long winding road with a beginning, a middle and end (past, present and future) for the visiting individual jiva-souls (living units of anti-matter) from the spiritual world (also anti-matter) to travel on, from its starting point on the road, to its middle, and to its end. 

This material roadway of past, present and future are the dreams of Maha-Visnu which are the temporary mundane material world.

All individual jīva-souls originate from the spiritual world (the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (anti-matter) that exists in the "eternal presence of Krsna Consciousness" where everything there (anti-matter) are living individuals.

No individual life forms originates from the mundane temporary material world (matter), the impersonal brahmajyoti (that individual jiva-souls can inactivity [become temporarily dormant as a spark in an effulgence] fall too) or the Body of Maha-Visnu.

As explained above, after entering the mundane temporary material world (matter) due to falling down from Krsna's spiritual world's of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the Kingdom of God of anti-matter), the individual jiva-soul "hires" (possess) a material bodily container or vessel from Maha-Visnu's dreams (also known as His Block material universe). 

Within this "Block temporary material world" governed by Maha-Visnu's dreams, every possible material scenario exists where the individual jiva-souls (individual units of anti-matter) moves along an already existing roadway (a material bodily vessel's past, present and future) in-sync with the individual jiva-soul's desires that simultaneously found within the dreams of Maha-Visnu and hired from Maha-Visnu to experience them in His material world. 

The fallen individual jiva-souls (units of anti-matter) are originally from the perpetual spiritual world's of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka Vrindavana (anti-matter that never ages or decays) as said above, have to possess (hire) a material bodily container or vessels from Maha-Visnu that allows them to experience the temporary material world.

For each individual jiva-soul trapped in the material world, they must reach the rare human form of life out of 8 million 400 thousand species to experience "free will." Therefore, the human form numering 400 thousand species is extremely very, very rare to attain in the material world.

The other 8 million species have no "free will" at all, and are moved only by the material urges of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. 

All individual jiva-souls originate from the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka-Vrindavana (anti-matter). When they choose to enter the temporary material world (matter), they must "hire" a material bodily vessel or container from Maha-Visnu's massive "library of material dreams" so they can enter the material world and attempt to live an independent existence without God (Krsna or Visnu). 

The material bodily containers are the alternative for those individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) who reject serving Krsna in Goloka-Vrindavana, or Visnu on the Vaikuntha planets (the perpetual Kingdoms of God) covering their real eternal spiritual bodily form.

Therefore, all material bodily vessels are provided by Maha-Visnu to those individual jiva-souls who can no longer choose to stay in the spiritual planets. Because of this rejection of Krsna or Visnu, they must enter the material world and become under the jurisdiction of Krsna's expansion Maha-Visnu who creates the mundane temporary material world.

No individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) originate from Maha-Visnu or the impersonal inactive brahmajyoti, their eternal home and original position is the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana in the spiritual world. 

The fallen individual jiva-souls only move from the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka Vrindavana to Maha-Visnu's dreams, then "hire" from Maha-Visnu a material bodily vessel according to their desires for their journey into the material creation.

There are unlimited material bodily vessels available to the individual jiva-souls who have chosen to leave the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka Vrindavana, that instantly places them in Maha-Visnu's "dreams" as said above.

The individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities), like Krsna, were never created and can never cease to be, they have eternally existed as Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 2 text 12 to text 30. 

Each individual jiva-soul has no origin and will never cease to be as Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 states, explaining they were never created and will never cease to be. As said above, the individual jiva-souls are eternal like Krsna.

Also, Krsna and the individual jiva-souls are like the Sun-disc and the sun-rays, they have never existed without each other. Krsna and the individual jiva-souls have always existed together. This means the individual jiva-souls are eternal dependent on Krsna in both the spiritual world (as His servant and Friend) and material world (as an independent jiva-souls (person) who have rejected Krsna.  

Some foolish Vaisnavas and their ignorant big Gurus claim the individual jiva-souls can never fall down from the spiritual world, such fools do not understand the implications of having "free will" that allows the individual jiva-souls to choose to serve Krsna in the spiritual world, or reject Krsna and enter the material world. 

Without this choice, genuine voluntary loving exchanges with Krsna and Visnu can never exist in the spiritual world because free will must allow the individual jiva-souls to choose for themselves if they want to be with Krsna, or reject Him. Many foolish ignorant Gurus in Vaisnava teachings do not understand this.

Fortunately, only less than 10% choose to leave the spiritual world Srila Prabhupada has explained, meaning over 90% of individual jiva-souls never foolishly choose to enter the temporary decaying material world.  

The real permanent home and origin of the individual jiva-souls, is always in either the Vaikuntha planets of Lord Visnu, or Krsna's central planet of Goloka Vrindavana. There real home is not in the temporary mundane material world, or merged inactively (dormant) in the impersonal Brahmajyoti, or merged in the Body of Maha-Visnu.

From Maha Visnu's point of view, the movement through material time's past, present and future, all exist simultaneously and is always there as a permanent pathway that unlimited jiva-souls are continuously moving through.

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 in 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." (Tokyo Japan 1972, SB lecture)

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)

The material bodily passage through past, present and future is an eternal "pathway" that the individual jiva-souls move through from its start (birth), to its end (death), and is like a long winding road.

The realities of Maha-Visnu's dreaming material creations are inconceivable, they are always available to the individual jiva-souls who choose to enter the temporary material world, they can never be changed because they are already Maha-Visnu's dreams that the individual jiva-souls can only "hire" from Him.

The "free will" that each individual jiva-souls eternally has, is also "built-in" within the material bodily vessels "hired" from Maha-Visnu. This reality that allows the individual jiva-souls to have free in Maha-Visnu's already dreamed material universe, is a "paradox" that exists in Maha-Visnu's creation for the purpose to always allow free will. 

Also, the choice to leave the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka Vrindavana (the Kingdoms of God) and enter the temporary material world, is always possible because Krsna allows the individual jiva-souls to express their "free-will" the way they choose. 

This choice by the individual jiva-souls allows them to participate in loving voluntary exchanges, cooperation and reciprocation with Krsna in a "two-way" open relationship where real genuine loving emotions can only eternally exist.

This is only possible in an open "two-way" exchange of voluntary participation, where the individual jiva-soul can choose to remain in the spiritual world serving Krsna, or enter the material world and live there without being Kṛṣṇa conscious. 

This means the individual jiva-souls always have the choice to accept, or reject Krsna/Visnu in both the spiritual world and the material world.  

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. 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? Misuse of free will." (Talk on Rene Descartes philosophy with Hayagriva dasa 1973)

Unless there is the misuse of free will allowed, even on the Vaikuntha planets of Visnu, and Krsna’s Abode of Goloka-Vrindavana, there is no question of free will.

For loving exchanges, reciprocation and cooperation to truly exist between Krsna and the individual jiva-souls, the individual jiva-souls must also have the right to voluntarily express themselves one way or the other, which means having the choice (free will) to leave the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka Vrindavana at anytime they choose, and enter the temporary material world to live their separate existence without Kṛṣṇa or Visnu.*^^*.