Saturday, July 18, 2026

Srila Prabhupada exposes bogus nonsense lndian impersonalist cheap Gurus.

Indian man - "Srila Prabhupāda, what is your opinion about Sai Baba?" (laughter)

Srila Prabhupāda - "(Hindi) Jugglery."

Indian man - "No avatāra has declared so far that "I'm avatāra."

Srila Prabhupāda - "He is... What is called avatāra? He has no, nothing on the śāstra basically he is nonsense. And anyone who has no śāstra basics, he's useless. Yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya vartate kāma-kārataḥ na sa siddhim avāpnoti (BG 16.23). He can cheat so many fools and rascals, it has no meaning. That is described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam about this kind of foolish guru. They have been condemned in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. I think you'll find out at the end of the Twenty-fourth Chapter, Eighth Canto. They have been condemned. Now what is the benefit? From rational point of view, suppose he can manufacture gold. That is his jugglery. Eh? He can manufacture some gold? So far I have heard. I've not seen."

Indian man - "lt is all cheating, some kind of cheap trick." (Garden Conversation, Sept 7, 1976, Vrndavana)

Srila Prabhupada - "Sai Baba claims, "I am Bhagavān," therefore he is bogus. How you can say yourself that you are Bhagavān, God? What is your power? What you have shown? This claim is cheap." (Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor and Guests, Feb 12, 1975, Mexico)

Pradyumna dasa - "Swamiji? I was reading a book by Swami Vivekananda, some letters in the back I was looking at..."

Srila Prabhupāda -  "Vivekananda's books we have nothing to do with us they are all nonsense."

Pradyumna - "I was just..."

Srila Prabhupāda - "Is there anything about Kṛṣṇa in Vivekananda's speech?"

Pradyumna - "I wasn't reading his speeches, I wanted to see how he worked things, I know he's a rascal."

Prabhupāda - "Forget him, it is all nonsense." (Room Conversation, July 16, 1968, Montreal)

Srila Prabhupāda -  "Radhakrishnan says, "It's not to the person Kṛṣṇa." Where he gets this nonsense idea from?"

Guest - "That Vivekananda also has said."

Srila Prabhupāda - "They are both nonsense! Therefore I say they are all nonsense who deviates from the original text of the Bhagavad-gītā." (Discussion with Indians, Jan 18, 1971, Allahabad)

Srila Prabhupāda - "These Māyāvādīs claim "I am the Supreme," they are Māyāvādīs. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu says, "Anyone who hears the philosophy of Māyāvāda, he is doomed. He is gone." (break) ...teaching, "Why you are seeking after God?" Just like Vivekananda taught, "Oh, why you are seeking after God? Don't you see so many gods are on the street? They are hungry. They are lame. They are daridra-nārāyaṇa. Why don't you worship them?" This is Māyāvādī. So if we take Vivekananda's version, and be engaged in the service of the daridra-nārāyaṇa, then I am misled." (Room Conversation, Sept 18, 1973, Bombay)

Mohsin Hassan - "Srila Prabhupāda, what's your opinion on the Ramakrishna Mission? We have a Ramakrishna Mission in Chicago."

Srila Prabhupāda - " Ramakrishna Mission, if I say it frankly, they distorted the Bhagavad-gītā to the greatest extent. Because they presented Ramakrishna as God. Ramakrishna said that "I am the same Kṛṣṇa, I am the same Rāma," and they accepted it. But one thing is, anybody can say that nonsense "I am the same Rāma, I am the same Kṛṣṇa." First of all we have to see the proof. So many, there are many ways of to understand. So Ramakrishna Mission is pushing on this wrong idea. And another thing is that, supposing this Ramakrishna is the same Kṛṣṇa, then the philosophy is different. Ramakrishna's philosophy and Bhagavad-gītā's philosophy is different, because Ramakrishna says that you can accept any method, every method is all right. But Kṛṣṇa says only unto Him, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇam (BG 18.66). "Give up everything, simply surrender unto Me." Now Kṛṣṇa says one: "Simply surrender unto Me," and Ramakrishna says that we can accept anywhere. So which one we shall accept? Kṛṣṇa's or Ramakrishna's? What is your opinion? If something is spoken by Kṛṣṇa and something is spoken by Ramakrishna, so which one we shall prefer to accept?"

Mohsin Hassan - "Kṛṣṇa."

Srila Prabhupāda - "That's the answer, therefore this Ramakrishna Mission is misguiding everyone." (Room Conversation, July 18, 1971, Detroit).×^×.


















Thursday, July 16, 2026

Krsna is like an original candle that lights all other candles, Krsna is that original candle.

Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes who has 64 qualities, He is like an original candle that lights all other candles, who are known as His Visnu-tattva direct expansions (who are also God).

Srila Prabhupada - "In Brahma-saṁhitā the example is given of an original candle which lights a second candle. Although both candles are of equal power, one is accepted as the original, and the other is said to be kindled from the original. The Viṣṇu expansion is like the second candle. He is as powerful as Kṛṣṇa, but the original Viṣṇu is Kṛṣṇa. Brahmā and Lord Śiva are obedient servants of the Supreme Lord, and the Supreme Lord as Viṣṇu is an expansion of Kṛṣṇa." (Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Ch 8)

Krsna has 64 qualities that are the full expression and potential of His Personality however, Krsna's Visnu-tattva/Balarama/Narayana expansions (also God) have only 60 of those 64 qualities of Kṛṣṇa, which means they have 93.75% of Krsna’s 100% qualities.

Some cannot understand why Krsna has more qualities than Visnu/Narayana, or why Krsna is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes. 

It is simple to understand, Kṛṣṇa is like an original candle that lights all other candles, therefore Krsna is the first, the original Personality of Godhead. 

All Visnu/Narayana four armed forms are expansions of Krsna and Krsna is not an expansion of Visnu/Narayana as many Hindus wrongly believe today. 

However, in the temporary material world, it is Krsna's Visnu/Narayana expansion who plays the role of Krsna in the material world's facsimile of Goloka-Vrindavana in the spiritual world, this is because the original Krsna never leaves His home in the spiritual world (Goloka Vrindavana)

Krsna has four qualities that Visnu/Narayana do not have, they are the following–

(1) Krsna is the performer of wonderful varieties of pastimes (especially His childhood pastimes).

(2) Krsna is surrounded by devotees endowed with wonderful love of Godhead.

(3) Krsna can attract all living entities all over the universes by playing on His flute.

(4) Krsna has a wonderful excellence of beauty which cannot be rivaled anywhere in the creation.

These four qualities Krsna always has in full, while the Visnu/Narayana forms of God can only partially exhibit them. 

Visnu/ Balarama/Narayana expansions of Kṛṣṇa may only sometimes exhibited Krsna's 4 unique qualities if they are playing the part of Krsna in the material world, but generally Visnu-tattva expansions only have 93.75% of Krsna's qualities which is having 60 out of Krsna's 64 attributes.  

Siva-tattva (Lord Siva) has 55 of Krsna's 64 qualities or 85.938% of Krsna’s attributes

Jiva-tattva (individual jiva-souls) have 50 of Krsna's 64 qualities, which is 78.125% of Krsna’s attributes.

So, there is a difference between Krsna who always has 64 qualities and his many different Visnu-tattva expansions. 

Although technically there are only two types of living entities, Visnu-tattva and jiva-tattva or the individual jiva-souls. However, there is a rare category known as Siva-tattva (Lord Siva) who is in a league of his own, neither Visnu-tattva or Jiva-tattva.

1 - Krsna (64/64 qualities) = 100%

2 - Visnu/Balarama/Narayana and the unlimited other Visnu-tattva expansions (60 out of 64 qualities which is 93.75%) 

3 - Lord Siva and his many Siva-tattva expansions have 55 of Krsna's 64 qualities which is having 85.938% of Krsna's 100% attributes.  

4 - Jiva-tattva is the individual jiva-souls that includes Brahma and Narada Muni, who have 50 of Krsna's 64 qualities which is 78.125% of Krsna’s 100%.

Although, as said above, Visnu/Balarama/Narayana can temporarily exhibit all 64 qualities if necessary, like when a Visnu/Narayana expansion plays the part of Krsna during His lila in the temporary material creation. 

Balarama/Baladeva is Kṛṣṇa's first Visnu-tattva expansion.

The original child Krsna never leaves Vṛndāvana and that is why Krsna's Visnu-tattva expansion plays the part of Krsna while in the material world however,  there is no difference between Krsna and His Visnu-tattva expansions.

The full extent of Krsna’s wonderful qualities or attributes are inconceivable.

Here are Krsna’s 64 qualities or attributes–

(1) Beautiful features of the entire body

(2) Marked with all auspicious characteristics

(3) Extremely pleasing

(4) Effulgent

(5) Strong

(6) Ever youthful

(7) Wonderful linguist

(8 Truthful

(9) Talks pleasingly

(10) Fluent

(11) Highly learned

(12) Highly intelligent

(13) Genius

(14) Artistic

(15) Extremely clever

(16) Expert

(17) Grateful

(18) Firmly determined

(19) An expert judge of time and circumstances

(20) Sees and speaks on the authority of Vedas, or scriptures

(21) Pure

(22) Self-controlled

(23) Steadfast

(24) Forbearing

(25) Forgiving

(26) Grave

(27) Self-satisfied

(28) Possessing equilibrium

(29) Magnanimous

(30) Religious

(31) Heroic

(32) Compassionate

(33) Respectful

(34) Gentle

(35) Liberal

(36) Shy

(37) The protector of surrendered souls

(38) Happy

(39) The well-wisher of devotees

(40) Controlled by love

(41) all-auspicious

(42) Most powerful

(43) all-famous

(44) Popular

(45) Partial to devotees

(46) Very attractive to all women

(47) all-worship able

(48) all-opulent

(49) all-honourable

(50) The supreme controller.

(51) Changeless

(52) all-cognizant

(53) Ever fresh

(54) sat-cit-ananda-vigraha, means eternity, knowledge, bliss and form, as the eternal spiritual bodily form Kṛṣṇa is. The individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) in their original full potential, are also in the image of Krsna, as an eternal spiritual bodily form like Krsna.  

(55) Possessing all mystic perfections.

(56) He has inconceivable potency.

(57) Uncountable universes generate from His body.

(58) He is the original source of all incarnations.

(59) He is the giver of salvation to the enemies whom He kills.

(60) He is the attractor of liberated souls.

As said above, Krsna has four more qualities mostly not manifested in His Visnu/Narayana form of Godhead.

They are as follows-

(61) He is the performer of wonderful varieties of pastimes (especially His childhood pastimes).

(62) He is surrounded by devotees endowed with wonderful love of Godhead.

(63) He can attract all living entities all over the universes by playing on His flute.

(64) He has a wonderful excellence of beauty which cannot be rivaled anywhere in the creation.

The Absolute Truth is anandamaya (desiring to increase His joy), hence from His original Bodily form Kṛṣṇa expands and becomes many.

These emanations from the Supreme PERSON Krsna are of two categories:  

* The full expansions of Kṛṣṇa (Visnu-tattva) 

* The separated expansions of Krsna known as the eternal marginal living entities or the jiva-tattvas (individual jiva-souls).

*And the category of the living entity known as Lord Siva is explained here-

Srila Prabhupada - "Lord Śiva is not one of the living entities (Siva is not a jiva-tattva (individual jiva-soul) or Visnu-tattva (Krsna's direct expansion). Siva is in a league of his own, although he is simultaneously more or less, Kṛṣṇa Himself also (a paradox). The example of milk and yogurt is often given in this regard, yogurt is a preparation of milk, but still yogurt cannot be used as milk. 

Lord Śiva is an expansion of Kṛṣṇa, but he cannot act as Kṛṣṇa, nor can we derive the spiritual restoration from Lord Śiva that we derive from Kṛṣṇa. Lord Siva is simultaneously one with and different from the viṣṇu-tattva. 

Due to Siva's association with māyā, he is different from the viṣṇu-tattva, but at the same time he is an expansion of Kṛṣṇa's personal form. This situation is called- 

bhedābheda-tattva or acintya-bhedābheda-tattva, which means- 

"Simultaneously one and different."

The essential difference between Siva and Krsna and Viṣṇu is that Lord Śiva has a connection with material nature, but Viṣṇu or Lord Kṛṣṇa has nothing to do with material nature." (From The Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Ch 8 and CC Madhya 20.308, Purport) 

The Lord’s various full and partial expansions, and the Lord Himself simultaneously co-exist, only appearing to manifest under the influence of time.

These full expansions of Krsna are known as Visnu-tattva Forms of God, and they are also the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Visnu-tattva expansion Balarama is Kṛṣṇa’s first expansion and from Him come,

Balarāma,

Pradyumna,

Ramachandra,

Narsingadeva

Visnu,

Narayana,

Maha-Visnu, 

Garbhodakashayi Visnu, 

Paramatma, etc.

All accept their own role as Godhead in the mood of servitor to the original Supreme Being Lord Krsna. 

For example, Visnu/Narayana 4 armed Forms have unlimited names found throughout the Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual world

Lord Krsna possesses two other expansive qualities known as Siva-tattva and jiva-tattva (the individual jiva-souls).

Together with Visnu-tattva, these three represent the Absolute Person’s- 

1 - Internal - Visnu-"sakti"-tattva, internal potency headed by Srimati Radharani 

2 - External - (mahat-tattva or material energy in the temporary material world)

3 - Marginal energies - (jiva-tattva or the individual jiva-souls) meaning the individual jiva-souls have the "free will" to choose to remain in the spiritual world with Krsna and Visnu, or leave the spiritual world and enter the temporary material world that is under the jurisdiction of Krsna's expansion, the dreaming Maha-Visnu.  

As explained above, Krsna has expanded Himself as Lord Siva in a league of his own with 85.938% of Krsna's qualities, this means he has 55 of Krsna's 64 qualities.  

Lord Brahma is also jiva-tattva or an individual jiva-soul (marginal living entity) with 78.125% of Krsna's qualities. 

We are also individual jiva-soul (marginal living entities) expansions of Kṛṣṇa. Marginal means the individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) can choose to live in their natural home in the spiritual world, or live in the temporary material world (matter).

1 - As said above, Lord Siva is between Visnu-tattva and jiva-tattva.

2 - Lord Visnu/Narayana is Visnu-tattva almost Kṛṣṇa (God).

3 - Visnu-tattva, Siva-tattva and the individual jiva-tattva (individual jiva-souls) are all expansions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

4 - The individual jiva-souls are "separated expansions" with their own unique personality and character that allows free will including the choice to stay with Krsna or reject Him.

As a reminder, we can summarize the qualities of each category of living beings as follows-

1 - Lord Krsna has 64 qualities or 100% of His own qualities.

2 - Visnu-"sakti"-tattva referring to the internal potency of Kṛṣṇa headed by Radharani who none different from Krsna. 

3 - Visnu-tattva/Balarama/Narayana have 60 of Krsna's 64 qualities which is having 93.75% of Krsna's qualities.

4 - Siva-tattva has 55 of Krsna's 64 qualities which is 85.938% of Krsna's qualities.

5 - Jiva-tattva (individual jiva-souls) have 50 of Krsna's 64 qualities which is 78.125% of Krsna's qualities.

This is the reason why Krsna is called Param Purushottam, Purnavatar or Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Learned scholars in transcendental subjects have carefully analyzed the summum bonum Krsna to have sixty-four principal attributes. 

All the expansions or categories of the Lord possess only some percentages of these attributes. But Sri Krsna is the possessor of the attributes cent percent. 

And His personal expansions such as svayam-prakasa, tad-ekatma up to the categories of the avataras who are all Visnu-tattva.

In the conditioned state of material existence, the living being only possesses these attributes mentioned above in very minute quantity, varying in terms of the pious life of the living being. 

Most life in the material world is the lower species where there is no free will and only the animalistic urges of- 

eating,

sleeping,

mating,

defending.

The most perfect marginal living entity is Brahma, the managing administrator of each individual universe.

All other demigods have the same attributes in less quantity, whereas human beings in the material world possess the attributes in very minute quantity as said above

There are 8 million 400 thousand species of life in the temporary material, 8 million of them have no free will while the individual jiva-souls are trapped in the lower species of individual life, they only have the instincts of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. 

However, there are 400 thousand different human species where limited free will exists  depending on their human advancement. 

The marginal living entities or individual jiva-souls, can never possess attributes like Siva, Visnu or Lord Krsna.

The individual jiva-souls can become godly by developing their full potential but can never become a God like Krsna or Visnu or an advanced living being like Siva.

As said above, the individual jiva-souls can become a Brahma (who is also an individual jiva-soul) in due course.

The godly living beings who are all residents of the Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual sky, are eternal associates of Visnu in different spiritual planets called Hari-dhama and Mahesa-dhama.

However, the abode of Lord Krsna is above the Vaikuntha planets and is called Krsnaloka or Goloka Vrndavana. 

The perfected individual jiva-soul can enter the planet of Krsnaloka (Goloka-Vrindavana) or the Vaikuntha planets after leaving their the present material bodily vessel in the material creation.

By reaching there full potential, the individual jiva-souls can return back home to the planet of Krsnaloka (Goloka-Vrindavana), or a Vaikuṇṭha planet of their choice, after leaving their present decaying material bodily vessel in the temporary material world.÷//÷.



















Sunday, July 5, 2026

In the spiritual world all relationships with Krsna are voluntary and equally blissful to each other, just like one may like a carnation flower while others may choose to like a rose flower.

Srila Prabhupada - “The individual jiva-soul's position in the spiritual world is voluntary, some devotees want to serve Krsna as a 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 I he can change from flower to human body if I choose, 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 pole, as chair, as 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) can never lose their "free will" (the voluntary ability of self expression) that allows them to independently choose how serve in the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka Vrindavana the way they want to serve Krsna or Visnu.

This means the individual jiva-souls in the spiritual world always can eternally express themselves in their own unique way with offerings of personal contributions they choose to offer to Krsna.

Srila Prabhupada - "Because you are Son of God you have independence, you have acquired the quality of your father, so God does not interfere with your independence. If you persist that “I must enjoy independently,” God says, “All right, you can go.” This is the position, if you persist, God sanctions. And you can come here and enjoy." (Melb, Australia June 25, 1974)

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 wrongly, 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 excerpt from - 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, who each eternally have their own unique personality separate from Krsna and Viṣṇu. 

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.

Srila Prabhupada - "Love means you take and you give also. Suppose if you love somebody and you simply take from him, but you don't give. Oh, do you think it is very good? No, it is not good, that is not love, that is exploitation. If I go on simply taking from you and do not offer you something in return, then that is simply exploitation." (Lecture BG, Ch 9 text 2-5, New York City, Nov 23, 1966)

Srila Prabhupada - "We have got the propensity to love. Love means somebody else. Love cannot be experienced by just one, no, there must be two. Love cannot be executed only by 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." (Lecture SB, Canto 1 Ch 2 text 6, Delhi, Nov. 12, 1973)

Srila Prabhupada -"The impersonalist philosophy is oneness, so how can 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's so lover of you 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)

Surrender to Krsna in the spiritual world does not mean giving up your free will and allowing Krsna to control all your every actions, deeds, words and thoughts, no, the individual jiva-souls in the spiritual world are not programmed "mindless" drones who only obey and never contribute to the relationship with Krsna in their own unique way by thinking for themselves.


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

Only by having free will can genuine loving exchanges and reciprocation in a two-way exchange take place. And without free will, the individual jiva-souls are no better than dead stone Prabhupada has told 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 to make their own choices and decisions in the spiritual world, then that also would mean loving exchanges and voluntarily reciprocation with Krsna would not be able to exist - love is only possible when there are two and never possible with just one.


If one is forced to worship Krsna or Visnu then that is NOT love, it is tyranny, bullying and impersonalism.


The "impersonal" version of Krsna's abode of Goloka-Vrindavana or the Vaikuntha Planets where jiva-souls are forced to surrender their "free will" and allow their bogus version of Krsna (God) to take over their individual existence by doing all their thinking for them, as many nonsense sangas (religious cults) propagate, is dangerous IMPERSONALISM.


Having genuine "free will" on the other hand, allows the jiva-souls to be themselves, which is an independent unique contributing PERSON who can ALWAYS voluntarily choose their own personal offerings to Krsna.


Voluntary service is the bases of REAL surrender in Goloka Vrindavana and the Vaikuntha Planets which are the permanent eternal home and origin of the marginal living entities (jiva-souls).


The jiva-souls in Vaikuntha and 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 as Prabhupada explains.


Krsna does NOT control the "surrendered" jiva-souls by FORCE like a puppet master controls every movement of his puppets with the manipulations of strings, denying self expression, individual contributions and voluntary service.


However, Krsna DOES control His pure devotees with love because the the jiva-soul allows this out of their unconditional love for Krsna.  


Srila Prabhupada - "Krsna does not want to 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 jiva-souls had no "free will" in the Spiritual World then they are no better than dead 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". (August 5, 1976, New Mayapur France)


Srila Prabhupada - "As living spiritual jiva-souls we are all originally Kṛṣṇa conscious entities, but due to our association with matter since time immemorial, our consciousness is now polluted by material atmosphere.


When the superior energy is in contact with inferior energy, it becomes an incompatible situation. But when the supreme marginal potency is in contact with the spiritual potency, Harā, it becomes the happy, normal condition of the living entity.


This transcendental vibration of chanting-


Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare


This is the sublime method for reviving our Kṛṣṇa consciousness. As living spiritual souls we are all originally Kṛṣṇa conscious entities, but due to our association with matter since time immemorial, our consciousness is now polluted by material atmosphere.


In this polluted concept of live, we are all trying to exploit the resources of material nature, but actually we are becoming more and more entangled in her complexities.


This illusion is called māyā, or hard struggle for existence over the stringent laws of material nature. This illusory struggle against the material nature can at once be stopped by revival of our Kṛṣṇa consciousness.


Kṛṣṇa consciousness is not an artificial imposition on the mind. This consciousness is the original energy of the living entity. When we hear the transcendental vibration, this consciousness is revived. And the process is recommended by authorities for this age. 


By practical experience also, we can perceive that by chanting this mahā-mantra, or the great chanting for deliverance, one can at once feel transcendental ecstasy from the spiritual stratum.


When one is factually on the plane of spiritual understanding, surpassing the stages of sense, mind and intelligence, one is situated on the transcendental plane.


This chanting of-


Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare


is directly enacted from the spiritual platform, surpassing all lower states of consciousness namely sensual, mental and intellectual.


There is no need of understanding the language of the mantra, nor is there any need of mental speculation nor any intellectual adjustment for chanting this mahā-mantra.


It springs automatically from the spiritual platform, and as such, anyone can take part in this transcendental sound vibration, without any previous qualification, and dance in ecstasy. We have seen it practically. Even a child can take part in the chanting, or even a dog can take part in it.


The chanting should be heard, however, from the lips of a pure devotee of the Lord, so that immediate effect can be achieved.


As far as possible, chanting from the lips of a nondevotee should be avoided, as much as milk touched by the lips of a serpent causes poisonous effect.


The word Harā is a form of addressing the energy of the Lord. Both Kṛṣṇa and Rāma are forms of addressing directly the Lord, and they mean "the highest pleasure, eternal." Harā is the supreme pleasure potency of the Lord.


This potency, when addressed as Hare, helps us in reaching the Supreme Lord.


The material energy, called mayā, is also one of the multipotencies of the Lord, as much as we are also the marginal potency of the Lord.


The "marginal living entities" (jiva-souls) are described as a superior energy than matter. When the superior energy is in contact with inferior energy, it becomes an incompatible situation.


But when the supreme marginal potency is in contact with the spiritual potency, Harā, it becomes the happy, normal condition of the living entity.


The three words, namely Harā, Kṛṣṇa and Rāma, are transcendental seeds of the mahā-mantra, and the chanting is a spiritual call for the Lord and His internal energy, Harā, for giving protection to the conditioned soul.


The chanting is exactly like a genuine cry by the child for the mother. Mother Harā helps in achieving the grace of the supreme father, Hari, or Kṛṣṇa, and the Lord reveals Himself to such a sincere devotee. 


No other means, therefore, of spiritual realization is as effective in this age, as chanting the mahā-mantra. (Purport to Hare Krsna Mantra as explained on the cover of the "Happening Record Album" recorded December 1966 New York City, USA)


Devotee – “When we are in the spiritual sky and serving Krsna, we have a perfect relationship with Krsna, what causes us to fall down in 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…”


Srila Prabhupada – “Because you have got little freedom. 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, 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 acquired the quality of your father so God does not interfere with your independence (free will). (Lecture Melbourne, Australia June 25, 1974)


Srila Prabhupada - "Unless there is chance of doing wrong or right, there is no question of "free will". Where is "free will" if I can act only one sided? That means I have no "free will". Because we CAN act wrongly (sometimes), that means we have free will." (Discussions with Srila Prabhupada – Rene Descartes).


The marginal living entities (jiva-souls) NEVER lose their "free will" because they are eternal as Bhagavad Gita explains,


Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 2 Text 20.


"For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain".


"Free will" has NOTHING to do with the material body, "free will" is a symptom of the eternal jiva-soul.


"Free will" is the constitutional makeup of the pure jiva-souls in Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavana where nothing material exists, including material bodily vessels.×××

Thursday, July 2, 2026

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 material universe), exists simultaneously in His dreaming of the material world (matter), existing as a permanent pathway made of material bodily vessels for the individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) to travel "in/along/through" as a living passenger.

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 and are "hired" from the eternal dreams of Maha-Visnu where past, present and future are occurring simultaneously above the flow of the one direction and movement 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 ("hired" off Maha-Visnu), 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).

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)

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) and "hiring" material bodily vessels from Him.

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)

All the material bodily vessels in the material creation belong to Maha-Visnu and must be aquired from Him in order to enter the material world. The material creation is simultaneously  the dreams and desires of the individual jiva-souls and the dreams of Maha-Visnu where free will is eternally part of the equation.

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 chosen to leave the spiritual world and enter the temporary material world.

As said above, the material world is the dreams of Maha-Visnu known as His "block material universe," which means past, present and future exist simultaneously as the beginning, middle and end experience on an unlimited pathway of material bodily vessels "hired" from Maha-Visnu like film on a movie camera.  


"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.

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 existing as a roadway that has its beginning point (birth), middle (youth and middle age) and end (old age and death).

But only while the individual jiva-souls are trapped in the material world covered by these temporary material bodily vessels, are they directed by material time's past, present and future. 

"Temporary" in the material world means real but non-permanent. 

It further means the individual jiva-soul's (anti-matter) movement through the decaying progression of material bodily vessels (matter) through material time's past, present and future, is a progressive pathway where the individual jiva-souls move along a roadway made of material bodily containers or vessels, like the progression of negetives one after the other on a movie reel.

The material bodily pathway's journey through past, present and future, is the journey the individual jiva-soul move through birth, youth, middle age, old age and death.

In the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, time is not divided like it is in the temporary material world (past, present and future), there is only the permanent presence of the "now," or the "eternal presence" of service to Krsna in His Abodes where everything is eternally fresh, youthful and never decomposes or decays.

In the spiritual planets the individual jiva-souls ARE their spiritual bodily form (anti-matter) who no longer possess a temporary material decaying bodily outer vessel or covering (matter).

All material bodily vessels or containers are part and parcel of the fabric of material nature or energies owned by Maha-Visnu, and "hired," out by Him who "dreams" the temporary material world that takes up 1/4 of the Spiritual Sky (matter)

The other 3/4s of the Spiritual Sky (anti-matter) is a permanent eternally youthful spiritual realm eternally existing in the "eternal presence of Krsna" beyond the decaying influence of past, present and future that only exists in the temporary material world.

In the material world, the mundane temporary bodily container that houses the individual jiva-souls, means they are a temporary passenger in material nature's lifeless fabric in the form of a material bodily vessel.

Each material bodily vessel or container is made of material energy (matter) that the individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) possess by "hiring" them from Maha-Visnu's dreaming of the material world.  

The marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls) are the temporary passengers in a material bodily vessels (matter) as explained above.  

Material energy (matter) is "all-one" dead energy even when occupied by the spiritual bodily form of the individual jiva-soul (anti-matter).

1 - "Matter" is lifeless dead energy, no presents of an "active" individual jiva-souls existing in the material world. Although Srila Prabhupada tells us that Krsna as Paramatma (Supersoul), and the dormant [inactive] individual jiva-souls, are present together even within the material atom.

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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," known as the "block material universe" which is a permanent fixture within the fabric of material energy.

This means all material bodily vessel are like a permanent 'POST' or roadway that all individual jiva-souls who choose to enter the temporary material world can also experience.

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.*////*....