"ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE" working for Krishna, a devotee firmly believes.

Today in photo below, the entire world can see the dream and massive vision Srila Bhaktivenode Thakur saw in Mayapur across the empty fields 120 years ago

The fact is being a devotee ANYTHING is possible in service to Krishna, this is how Prabhupada trained us.

In the story of the Brahmana and the cobbler, the proud brahmana laughed at Naradha Muni when Naradha told the brahmana what Vishnu was doing in Vaikuntha - and that Vishnu was threading an Elephant through the eye of a needle!

The brahmana laughed and cursed Naradha calling him a crazy fool while the humble cobbler rejoiced in ecstasy saying how wonderful our Lord is and that He can do anything He wants and nothing is impossible for the Lord and His devotees to achieve.

Years ago the media laughed at us in Melbourne in early 1972 when 10 of us were living in a run down house in the back streets of St kilda, a slum back then, having no money and having oats flavored with orange peel for breakfast every morning and very little food at night, mostly small remanants from the offerings.

And during the day we were often being thrown in jail for chanting Hare Krishna on the streets by the Government because back then street gathering were illegal

We told the media back then -

"Things may seem difficult now but we have faith in Krishna that "anything is possible" as devotees of the Lord and servants of our Spiritual Master.

The sky is the limit!

We told them, one day we will have a massive 5 million dollar Temple for Radha and Krishna's comfort where the Temple room will be all solid Marble and even the Government will also help us and provide the funds to feed thousands of people around Melbourne"

Of couse the media people laughed at us and said we were dreaming.

The fact is, within a few years we DID get our beautiful Temple valued today at not five million dollars,  but rather 18 million dollars today!

And in 2016 the Premier of the State Government of Victoria came to the Temple and gave ISKCON 500,000 dollars to build a kitchen to feed prasadam to 10s of thousand of people around Melbourne.

LOL, 45 years earlier they were throwing us in Jail for chanting Hare Krishna and distributing Prabhupada's books

Yes without any doubts this proves "anything is possible".

As one congregational member once said to Prabhupada

-  "You have came here to the West with nothing but you had a dream of building a Temple for every City on the planet and now you have achieved that by opening Temples everywhere on the planet".

Srila Bhaktivenode also had a dream 120 Years ago saying that soon the greatest Temple on the Planet will be built at Mayapur dharm

He said this while while looking across the empty fields of Mayapur in the 19th Century.

He had faith that Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu can and will make ANYTHING for Krishna possible!

Like the story of the Brahmana and the cobbler and Lord Vishnu putting an Elephant through the eye of a needle.

Visit Mayapur like I did last year and be amazed that Krishna can make "ANYTHING POSSIBLE"

The humble motto of a Sankirtan devotee (preaching the message of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu) is in the poem below.

For all those who sincerely attempt to preach the glories of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and help spread His message around the world, one WILL be tested.

Even though he/she is also having their own personal struggle within their heart against the temptations of lust and material attachment that Maya will try to use and exploit them with, one should NEVER give up attempting to serve their Spiritual Master even if one stumbles on the path and falls down.

Like a child learning to walk, one MUST get up and keep trying.

Remember, as soon as you attempt to serve and know Krishna, Maya WILL find in your heart and throw at you, the deep selfish desires hidden there, to see if it is REALLY service to Krishna you want.

This Soviet campaign we served 30 years ago was so massive that Maya threw EVERYTHING at us to see if it was really the Soviet devotees we wanted to help, or was there some hidden selfish desires for mundane sense gratification we really wanted.

Maya's duty is to test everyone who tries to know Krishna to make sure they are genuine.

And yes in some areas we did sadly fail but we NEVER gave up even in the face of failure.

In fact failure WAS the pillar of success, we prayed more intensely and sincerely "PLEASE my Lord use us in your plan, give us the strength to say no to temptation!

We never stopped praying to Prabhupada and attempting to free imprisoned Hare Krishna devotees in the Soviet Union.

This poem by an American President Theodore Roosevelt tells our struggle, our story -

"The credit really belongs to the men/women who are actually in the arena of preaching; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and often comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends themselves in a worthy cause and who, if at best in the end, knows the triumph of higher treatment and high achievements and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that their soul shall never be with those cold and timid ones who know neither victory nor defeat".

The block universe theory.

This claims that in the material universe, all time, past, present and future, all exist simultaneously.

The material universe contains everything that has ever happened and will happen at any time and at any place.

(From ABC Science)

(NOTE - The Vedas have a far more advanced more personal explanation of material time that recognises the soul or jivatma that is NOT material and therefore not from or part of the  material energy or creation.

The above mundane idea by Professor Kristie Miller does not understand that "life" is NOT originally part of the material universe.

Everything in the material universes are contained within the dreams of Maha Vishnu, He provides all material bodily vessels or containers for souls visiting this dead material creation, giving them all a bodily container from His dreams to experience the material universes.

Everything that there is in the material universes, is within His dreams, all bodily vessels are provided from Maha Vishnu so one can experience the material creation.

He is actually dreaming all these material universes

Only the 1/4 of all existence is the temperory always decaying material creation, the rest (3/4) is the perpetual ever youthful and fresh Spiritual Worlds of Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana.)

The following is from ABC Science -

Your birth is out there in space-time. Your death, too, is in space-time. Every moment of your life is out there, somewhere, in space-time.

So says the block universe model of our world.

According to the block universe theory, the universe is a giant block of all the things that ever happen at any time and at any place. On this view, the past, present and future all exist — and are equally real.

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How can this be?

The block has four dimensions: three spatial dimensions — say length, height and width — plus a fourth temporal dimension, or time. Or let's make it easier, by visualising the block model of our world as a three-dimensional rectangle, or cuboid.

Two of that cuboid's dimensions (let's say height and width) represent two of the universe's three spatial dimensions.

The third spatial dimension in the above diagram is left out — the length of the cuboid — and replace it with time. At one end of the cuboid is the big bang. At the other is the very last moment of the universe. Maybe it's a big crunch.

The cuboid is filled with every event that ever happens. Where these events are in the cuboid represents their location in space-time. All events, including your birth and death, and this very moment as you read these words, exist somewhere in the block.

In the block universe, time doesn't pass

It often seems as though where we are "today" is present, and "yesterday" is past, and "tomorrow" is future.

It also seems the present moment changes too — after all, tomorrow it will seem as though tomorrow is present, and yesterday it appeared yesterday was present!

So from our perspective, it appears that time flows or passes. But in the block universe model, time doesn't flow.

In other words, in a block universe, there is no specific present moment, and "past" and "future" moments are relative.

Think about the idea of "here". I am here. You, while reading this, can truly say "I am here", even though your "here" is different to mine.

What is time?

Hear about the physics and philosophy of time on The Philosopher's Zone on RN.

On the block universe model, talk about the "present" or "now" works just like talk of "here".

Remember last week when you said to your friend, who was late arriving for coffee, "now you're here"; or when, long ago, Caesar said, "I am now crossing the Rubicon"?

These claims are both true. That's because all it means to talk about the present, or now, is to talk about the place in time where you happen to be.

Since we are always located wherever we are (that's trivially true), everyone is located in the present, just as everyone is located at the place they call "here".

According to the block universe view, time or temporal relations of "earlier than" and "later than" exist. These relations hold regardless of where anyone is located.

So, suppose Bert the dinosaur is located earlier than Sally the dog. That relation between Bert and Sally holds, regardless of whether we are located earlier than Bert or later than Sally.

Bearing this in mind, it is possible to see how to make sense of the idea of past and future. Just as on this model "now" picks out whatever time I happen to be located at, "past" picks out any time (or events at those times) that are earlier than my location, and "future" picks out any times or events that are later than my location.

Does that mean we can travel in time?

If time is just another dimension, a lot like the spatial dimensions, does that mean we can travel in time?

The short answer is yes.

Of course, things are way more complicated than that. Travelling in time is clearly much more difficult than travelling in space. It might be very technologically costly to time travel, so perhaps it's not really something that, practically speaking, we can do.

But it's certainly possible.

We already know that travelling very fast will result in time dilation, so we know it's possible to travel into the future just by travelling very fast.

We can travel quite a way into the future if we can travel at some reasonable percentage of the speed of light. We also know how to travel into the past. We can do that by using wormholes, which are short cuts through space-time.

So, if I can travel in time, can I change the past?

No. That would create a contradiction, and there are no contradictions time is set in stone but all past, present and future exist simultaneously.

Remember, on the block universe model, the past is no different than the future or the present.

Everything is relative: what is past to you, will be future to someone else.

So if I travel back to the past I'm travelling to what is someone else's future. That means the past won't be any different, in kind, to the present.

What will happen if I travel to the past? I'll get out of my time machine and start walking around. I'll breathe the air and chat to people.

Obviously, this will have effects on the time I travel to. I'll tread on ants; I'll talk to people from that time; I'll pat horses, and feed donkeys and so on.

I'll act, in the past, in the sorts of ways I act in the present. But I won't be changing the past. Just as when I eat cornflakes instead of toast tomorrow I am not changing the future, I'm just making the future the way it is, when I travel to the past I don't change it, I just make it the way it is, and always has been.

Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity states time passes at different rates for people moving relative to each other.

What I do tomorrow makes tomorrow the way it is, and the way it always has been. What I do in the past makes the past time the way it is, and always has been.

If I travel to the past, I am part of the past.Importantly, I was always part of the past.

The events in the block are there for all time: they do not change. So, as a time traveller, it's not as though I suddenly appear at a past time. It's always been the case that I am located at that past time.

Nothing a time traveller does changes anything in the block. Instead, what the traveller does at any time makes that time, and later times, the way they are.

That means that we know that some things we attempt to do in the past, fail. We know that Hitler rose to power in the 1930s, so we know that if our time travelling future selves try to prevent this from happening, they fail.

But that doesn't show that our time travelling selves don't succeed in doing lots of things in the past. For all we know, the reason the past is the way it is, is in part due to the presence of time travellers.

Associate Professor Kristie Miller is the joint director for the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney.

NOTE - The Vedas have a far more advanced more personal explanation of material time that recognises the soul or jivatma that is NOT material and therefore not from or part of the  material energy or creation.

The above mundane idea by Professor Kristie Miller does not understand that "life" is NOT originally part of the material universe.

Everything in the material universes are contained within the dreams of Maha Vishnu, He provides all material bodily vessels or containers for souls visiting this dead material creation, giving them all a bodily container from His dreams to experience the material universes.

Everything that there is in the material universes, is within His dreams, all bodily vessels are provided from Maha Vishnu so one can experience the material creation.

He is actually dreaming all these material universes

Only the 1/4 of all existence is the temperory always decaying material creation, the rest (3/4) is the perpetual ever youthful and fresh Spiritual Worlds of Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana.