All individual material bodily vessels or containers (matter) within the material world house a passenger who is the unique eternal individual jiva-soul (anti-matter) also known as the individual life force.
All material bodily vessels occupied by the individual jiva-souls, originates from the eternal dreams of Maha-Visnu where past, present and future is occurring simultaneously above the flow of "linear time."
"Linear time" is the movement by the individual jiva-souls through the already existing past, to the already existing present, then to the already existing future, this is also known as the "block universe." (see video below)
The unlimited varieties of material bodily containers or vessels that houses the individual jiva-souls in the material world, are an instant alternative for those individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) who reject (fall down) from serving Visnu on the Vaikuntha planets, and Kṛṣṇa in 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, which takes up 75% of Krsna’s creation, due to their rejection of Krsna and Visnu in the spiritual world in their attempt to live separately in the material world which takes up 25% of Krsna's creation but managed by His direct expansions Maha-Visnu, Garbhodakashayi-Visnu and Ksirodakaśāyī Visnu (Paramātmā or Supersoul).
The mysterious workings of Maha-Visnu's material creation of dreams works in a way that not even science fiction writers could ever imagine.
Maha-Visnu’s "block material universe" is a concept that merges modern theoretical physics with Vedic cosmology.
It describes the material creation as a four-dimensional construct—stretching across past, present, and future simultaneously—which eternally exists as Mahā-Viṣṇu's dream.
The entire temporary material world (comprising countless cosmic eggs or Brahmanda individual material universes) manifests from the pores and breath of Maha-Visnu as He rests in the causal ocean. The total expanse of reality, including all time and space, is contained within His dreaming state.
In theoretical physics, a "block universe" posits that time is a static dimension where all past, present, and future events exist simultaneously.
In the context of Maha-Visnu, this means that every single permutation of the material world and every sequence of events already and eternally exists within His dreams.
While the "block material universe" and its unlimited collection of material bodily vessels or containers that house the individual jiva-soul, are also part of Maha-Visnu's dreaming of the temporary material world, such material bodily "posts" are a pre-existing pathway of material bodily vessels "hired" from the dreaming Maha-Visnu.
The living individual jiva-soul is an eternal spiritual personality and anti-material.
The individual jiva-souls first "hire" then enters a temporary material bodily vessels from Maha-Visnu's dreams to experience their dreams that matches Maha-Visnu dream.
Navigating the paradox of free will and undergoing the laws of karma are all included in Maha-Visnu's dreams.
Maha-Visnu (Karanadaksayi Visnu) exists beyond time, dreaming the entirety of the material multiverse (the block universe).
Garbhodakashayi Visnu enters each individual Brahmanda material universe to maintain them and facilitate this secondary material universe deep insside each massive Brahmanda universe.
Lord Brahma (also an individual jiva-soul or jiva-tattva) is born from the navel of Garbhodakashayi Visnu to shape and populate the material universe within many planetary systems (14 in our material universe inside our massive Brahmanda).
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) a suitable material bodily vessel according to their desires on their journey through the temporary material world created by Maha-Visnu.
Furthermore, the individual jiva-souls do not originate from the inactive impersonal brahmajyoti either, or a realm called taṭastha-sakti (claimed by some to be the origin of the individual jiva-souls) because they have no origin due to being beginningless and endless.
There are unlimited material bodily vessels available to those individual jiva-souls who have chosen to leave (reject) the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana that instantly places them within the dreams of Maha-Visnu inside His material creation (the block universe).
To make it clearer, 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."
"Marginal" means they can choose to stay in the spiritual world (their natural home and original position, or live in the material world within a variety of temporary material bodily vessels.
Krsna and the individual jiva-souls are like the Sun-disc and the sun-rays that cannot be separated from each other therefore always exist together.
This also means that if an individual jiva-soul rejects Visnu or Krsna and leaves the spiritual world, they are still eternally dependent on Krsna through His expansions like Maha-Visnu because everything belongs to Krsna being His creation.
It is important to understand that Krsna and the individual jiva-souls have always existed and were never created.
The real home and original position of the individual jiva-souls is always in either the Vaikuntha planets of Lord Visnu, or Krsna's central Abode of Goloka-Vrindavana, and not living in the temporary mundane material world, or merged inactively (dormant) and artificially in the impersonal Brahmajyoti.
From Maha-Visnu's point of view, who sees and knows everything, the movement through material time's past, present and future (also called the block universe), exist simultaneously and is always existing as a permanent pathway made of material bodily vessels for the individual jiva-souls to travel "in/along" as a passenger, who by choice, have fallen from the perpetual spiritual world (anti-matter) and entered Maha-Visnu's dreams in the temporary material world (matter).
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.” (SB lecture Tokyo Japan 1972)
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)
As explained above, the material bodily vessel is roadway or pathway for the individual jiva-souls to moves along/through past, present and future. In other words, the material bodily vessel's start (birth), to its middle, and to its end (death), is the pathway made of past, present and future.
These bodily material containers created by Maha-Visnu, come from His dreaming of the material world. These pathways (material bodily vessels) can be rewinded, they can be fast forwarded like a film in a camera, but they can never be changed because Maha-Visnu has already dreamed them.
This means each material bodily vessel's pathway is already set in stone from its beginning to its end just like the film on a camera.
In other words, each material bodily "pathway" that the visiting individual jiva-soul travels on/through/in, comes from the already "dreamed" dreams of Maha-Visnu as said above, and can only be lived through but 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 to live through and experience, are already a set reality in His dreams from its beginning to its end because He has already dreamed them. Such material bodily vessels (pathways) can only be "hired" from Maha-Visnu as is, meaning nothing in the already dreamed dream can be changed.
This is why once the individual jiva-soul enters Maha-Visnu's dreams, nothing along that material bodily individual pathway (dream) can ever be changed because Maha-Visnu has already dreamed all pathways (material bodily containers) past, present and future.
Such material vessels therefore always belong to Maha-Visnu and can only be "hired" from Him and never owned by the individual jiva-souls.
Paradoxically, because every possible senerio and combination of material realities (dreams) exist in Maha-Visnu's dreams, it is possible to "hire" a material bodily vessel where you can seemingly change the past, present or future and it appears it is not set in stone.
This senerio ironically is possible due to Maha-Visnu granting of all desires the individual jiva-souls have, that even includes the desire to change a material pathway or roadway journey, the material bodily vessel's journey through past, present and future that they have also "hired" off Maha-Visnu.
In actually fact, the individual jiva-souls have not changed anything because the "dream" they have they seemingly believe changes Maha-Visnu's already "dreamed dreams", are also an already dreamed dream of Maha-Visnu, found in His "Vault Of Endless Dreams" that covers every combination and scenario that can possibly exist.
Therefore, even when the individual jiva-souls seems to change an outcome, that outcome is also part of Maha-Visnu's dreaming.
The point is, eveything there is, is part of Maha-Visnu's dreams, and nothing happens outside His dreams even if the individual jiva-souls think it does.
Also, all material bodily pathways are 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 known as Mahā-Viṣṇu's "block universe," where past, present and future exist simultaneously eternally as unlimited material bodily pathways.
"Linear time" is the movement from past to present, and then to future, but is really a connecting array of material bodily vessels stretched along a pathway that is like "negatives on a movie reel" that represents the movement through past, present and 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 what the "block material universe" really is above just Linear time.
Maha-Visnu and rare yogis and devotees can see above Linear time (above past, present and future like one sees an entire roadway "from above," seeing its beginning, middle and end all at once.
All material bodily vessels are chosen (hired) from Maha-Visnu's dreams by the individual jiva-souls, this is the only way they can enter the material world.
They originate from His collection of material bodily vessels existing within His dreams found in His permanent "volt of dreams" that are always for "hire" and lived in by all visiting individual jiva-souls who choose to leave the spiritual world and enter the temporary material world.
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 hires (is given) a particular material bodily vessel matching their circumstance (desires) to enter the material world.
Furthermore, free will also always exists in the spiritual world but only partially in the material world in the human species (400 thousand different human forms) and not in 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 of Maha-Visnu's Block material universe in such a way that the "free will" of each individual jiva-soul is not affected and paradoxically always acted upon.
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), most (over 90%) never leave.
Such freedom of choice and expression must be eternally there in the spiritual world if voluntary loving exchanges and reciprocation truly exists on the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka Vrindavana which also allows one to accept or reject Krsna and Visnu.
Srila Prabhupada – "So everyone can know that independence 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 being force which denies free will." (Los Angeles, June 23, 1975)
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 can only act one sided, that means I have no free will. Because we act sometimes op, that means we have free will."
Hayagriva dasa - "A man may know better but still act wrongly."
Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, but that is free will, he misuses his free will, just like a thief, he knows his stealing is wrong, but still he does it, that is free will. He cannot check his greediness, so in spite of his knowing that he is doing the 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. Unless there is the possibility of misuse of free will, then there is no question of free will. (Based on discussions with Srila Prabhupada on Rene Descartes philosophy)
The individual jiva-souls are independent living entities known as the marginal living entities in the spiritual world. Marginal means they have the choice to remain in the spiritual world, or can enter the material world (through the dreams of Maha-Visnu).
The individual jiva-souls each eternally have their own unique personality separate from Krsna and Viṣṇu, yet always remain dependent on Krsna and His expansions like Maha-Visnu because Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes.
This means each individual jiva-soul perpetually has their own unique feelings of being independent from Krsna, yet paradoxically are simultaneously dependent on Krsna because everything is Krsna's creation and He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes.
The reason why Krsna gives the individual jiva-souls their independence and free will, is so they can choose for themselves in a two-way cooperative exchange how to serve Him in their own unique personal way, or even reject Him if they choose.
Free will also means the individual jiva-souls can always voluntarily contribute their own unique offerings to without any pressure or force from Krsna. Real love or service can only exist when free will allows the individual jiva-souls to voluntarily participate and cooperate in "two-way" loving devotional exchanges and contribute to the relationship with Krsna.
So, from the mistaken desires (self centred choices of right and wrong allowed because of free will) of the individual jiva-souls, begins when they put their own selfish desires first instead of serving Krsna.
To experience those separate desires without Kṛṣṇa, the individual jiva-souls then must choose a material bodily vessel from Maha-Visnu's "Library of dreams" that transfers them to a material universe (Brahmanda) in His temporary material world, contained in a temporary material bodily vessel.
This is the beginning of the individual jiva-souls fall down to the material world from the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka-Vrindavana. However, such fall downs are very rare, less than 10% of individual jiva-souls fall down from the spiritual planets.
Rejecting Krsna means the individual jiva-souls can no longer stay in the spiritual world and is instantaneously transferred out of the Vaikuṇṭha planets and Goloka-Vṛndāvana and relocated to the dreams of Maha-Visnu, these dreams are the material bodily pathways of a material bodily vessel within Maha-Visnu's material creation.
The individual jiva-soul already knows and agrees with the entire pathway or journey they have chosen because their "desires" are in sync with the bodily pathway (material bodily vessel) "hired" from Maha-Visnu's dreams.
Within Maha-Visnu's material creation exists every possible dream, every possible outcome and combination of material elements to fulfil every desire the visiting individual jiva-souls have, every scenario they can come up with is eternally already existing within Maha-Visnu's dreams ofvthe material world.
This means the individual jiva-soul's expression of "free will" is already factored into the equation of the material bodily vessel they have chosen to enter as explained above.
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is - "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." (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," Tri-kāla-jñā means they could understand-
1 - What was in the past.
2 - What is at present.
3 - What is in the future.
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 in three ways, past, present and future. Time is divided into past, present and future in the material world. Whenever you speak of time, it is past, present or future.
So the sages in those days were tri-kāla-jñā. As said above, Tri-kāla-jñā means they could understand and know what was in the past, what shall be there in the future, and what is at present.
Just like Kṛṣṇa says-
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "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 is past, present, and future, he explained. Another place (BG, Ch 7 text 26) Kṛṣṇa says, vedā ahaṁ samatītāni vartamanani ca "I know past, present and future. So, that is yogic power, one can know past, present, and future." (Lecture, SB, Canto 12 Ch 2 text 1 March 18, 1968 San Francisco USA)
There is still a lot more to learn about the movement of the marginal living entitied (individual jiva-souls) as they move through material space/time's past, present and future in an established flow of material bodily vessels or containers that is a roadway or pathway the individual jiva-souls travel on/through/along.
As said above, this can also be called "Maha-Visnu's block material universe" which means past, present and future exists simultaneously together as a block.
The movement through time (past, present and future) when seen from above, is just like one seeing an entire long winding road's beginning, middle and end from above all at once.
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We have only scratched the surface in understanding Vedic texts in the 60 years since Srila Prabhupada made his valuable Vedic contribution to the Western world in 1965.
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" in the material world means the decaying progression of material time's past, present and future seen as the pathway journey of birth, youth, middle age, old age and death.
Where as in the spiritual world there is only the permanent presence of the "now," of the "eternal presence" of Krsna where everything is eternally fresh, youthful and never decomposes.
In the spiritual planets the individual jiva-souls are their spiritual bodily form and no longer possess a temporary 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 world (anti-matter) eternally existing in the "eternal presence" beyond the decaying influence of past, present and future that only exists in the material world.
In the material creation's bodily vessels, the individual 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 individual jiva-souls possess.
The marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls) are the passengers in the material bodily vessel that is made of temporary material energy.k
Material energy is "all one" dead matter when no longer held together by the spiritual bodily form known as the individual jiva-soul (anti-matter).
1 - "Matter" is lifeless dead energy (no presents of an "active" individual jiva-soul) existing in the material world.
2 - "Anti-matter" is everything in the spiritual world being alive and active within Krsna's pastim, while all living entities (including the individual jiva-souls who eternally appear as a spiritual bodily form living naturally in the spiritual worlds of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, which are the individual jiva-souls real perpetual home.
Only Kṛṣṇa and His Visnu-tattva expansions are simultaneously an individual person, and all-pervasive (all-one) with His spiritual and material creation.
The individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) are individual units of eternal life, whereas the material energy has no life, it is simply dead lifeless matter even when dormant (inactive) individual jiva-souls are also there in the material atom in the material world.
All temporary material bodily vessels are "hired" by the individual jiva-souls from Maha-Visnu's dreams of the material world, possessed by the individual jiva-souls according to their desires to live without Krsna or Visnu.
And as the embodied individual 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 8 billion lower species of life in the material world where the individual jiva-souls in those lower species act only on the instincts of eating, sleeping, mating and defending, and not Karma or free will.
From the viewpoint of Maha-Visnu and great sages, they see past, present and future in the material world 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 desires of the marginal living entity (individual jiva-soul) in the material world, would eventually repeat themselves again over the span of eternity if they stayed artificially trapped in an outer material bodily container or vessel within the temporary material world.
This is because every combination of material elements would be exhausted, and would eventually start repeating themselves over an eternity, if the individual jiva-soul chooses to remain in the material creation for an almost eternity.
This is possible because the individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) are eternal meaning they were never created or will cease to exist as explained in Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter two text 12 to 30.
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 bodily vessel one "hires" from Maha-Visnu's dreams, still be happening in the material universe's "same space" that is a permanent pathway of past, present and future with a constant flow of unlimited individual jiva-soul who move through that same pathway (block universe), that is like the negetives on a film reel that exists as a sequence moving along together on that film reel?
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 the 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 individual jiva-souls can experience if qualified to attain that same material body of Brahma.
This further means the individual jiva-souls with the matching corresponding qualifactions, will experience the material bodily vessel they desire "hired" from Maha-Visnu's "Library Of Dreams" in the material world, based on what they deserve.
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 fallen to the material world from the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, the individual jiva-souls possess a temporary material bodily container or vessel created by their own karma (past good and bad actions) and simultaneously provided (hired) from Maha-Visnu's dreams
The "block material world" created from Maha-Visnu's dreams, does not mean material bodily containers or vessels are repeating themselves. No, that is not going on. What it means is the eternal "now" always exists as a permanent roadway or pathway where past, present and future always exist as that pathway that the individual jiva-souls move through. This is also called the block material universe of Maha-Visnu's dreams.
Some philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche believe in "eternal reoccurrence" which is nonsense. This "eternal reoccurrence" is not what is going on in the material world, there is no such thing as "eternal reoccurrence," there is only the permanent roadway or pathway of material bodily vessel created by Maha-Visnu's dreams that the individual jiva-souls "hire" from Him then travel in/along/through - from its beginning (past), to its middle (present), to its end (future) as explained above.
The material bodily vessels are the material roadway/pathway (matter) of past, present and future, and the individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) are a passengers on that pathway of material bodily vessels.
All material bodily containers hired from Maha-Visnu's dreams are real but temporary and made of decaying material elements (matter) that cover the real spiritual bodily form of the individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) as explained above.*////*.
