This means well known people throughout history who are in those material bodily vessels, are NOT that material body (decaying matter), they are the passengers in those material bodily vessels known as the individual jiva-soul (living anti-matter).
So, who are the material bodily vessel known as Hitler, Stalin, Churchill etc? Are those material bodily forms the real persons?
No, an individual jiva-soul is occupying those material bodies as its passenger meaning they are NOT the material bodily vessels they are in as its passenger.
The point made here is to clearly understand that the individual jiva-souls (anti-matter), are NOT the material bodily dead vessels (decaying matter) they occupy as its living passenger as they move through/on the various pathways of material existence in material world.
This is a little complicated to understand, but just like one wears many different suits, similarly the individual jiva-souls, over millions of life times, wears millions of different material bodily vessels like one wears those many suits.
All individual jiva-souls have had millions of different material bodies they have been passengers in based on their desires and karma.
All material bodily vessels in the material creation that the visiting individual jiva-souls experience, are based on desire and the reactions to one's good and bad actions while confined to a human material bodily form as its passenger.
As explained earlier, all material bodily vessels (matter) are "hired" from the dreams of Maha-Visnu by the visiting individual jiva-souls (anti-matter)
This also means that an unlimited number of individual jiva-souls over the eternal movement of material time (past, present and future), have travelled those exact material bodily pathways made material bodily vessels (dead matter) that the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) are passengers in.
The important point to understand is that the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) are not the material bodily vessel (dead matter) they are in as its passenger.
And, as explained above, this so called eternal reoccurrence is not what is really going on in the material world at all. Actually there is no such thing as "eternal reoccurrence" because all material pathways are a permanent fixture existing eternally in the already dreamed dreams of Maha-Visnu.
Therefore nothing is reoccurring, what is really happening in the material world is each moment through material time's past, present and future is always there and never fades way, it eternally exists like a pathway always remains after passing through, it is always there for others to also travel on.
In other words, this permanent pathway of material bodily vessels are always existing for other individual jiva-souls pass to along/through on their journey in the material world.
In this way, all "hired" material bodily vessels in Maha-Visnu's dreams always exist as that roadway of posts that the individual jiva-souls journey along/through as the passenger.
The pathway of material bodily vessels the individual jiva-souls journey in as its passenger, move through/along the movement of past, present and future in a material bodily vessels that eternally exists as that pathway.
The material energy is an eternal fabric of space-time that perpetually exists as a pathway through material energy (as material bodily vessels) where the individual jiva-souls traverse through that material pathway as its passenger.
All material bodily vessels (matter) in Maha-Visnu's material creation are a permanent fixture that always exist as a pathway for the individual jiva-souls, as its passenger, can move through past, to present to future, just like the different stages on roadway always remains after one travels on it.
In other words, the individual jiva-souls experience past, present and future as a pathway moving from birth, to youth, to middle age, to old age and death as the passenger on that pathway of material bodily vessel that always exist after being passed through.
This journey through all material pathways that the individual jiva-souls take as a passenger, are continuously occupied by other individual jiva-souls who choose the same journey of existence in material bodily vessels that make up the pathway of past, present and future they move through.
This is just like driving a vehicle on an already built and established roadway, where one experiencing its beginning, middle and end. However, like all roadways, it always remains as a roadway for others to also drive on it.
Therefore, it only appears that the material bodily vessels the individual jiva-souls are in as a passenger, are continually reoccurring when in actual fact, that is not what is going as explained above.
As said above, all material bodily vessels or pathways, are an established fixed stream of permanent bodily vessels moving through/along material time.
The individual jiva-souls move through/along this pathway as a passenger on the long winding roadway of past, present and future also known as the block material universe which means past, present and future always exists simultaneously.
In other words, the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) are the passengers on a permanent pathway of material energy made of material bodily vessels (dead matter) moving along a host of material bodily vessels through the material energies past, present and future, that all continue to always exist as a eternal pathway after the individual jiva-souls pass through them as the passenger.
The moving fabric of dead material energy as bodily vessels (matter), is only moved through by the presence of the individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) who are not the pathway but rather its passenger confined to nature's fabric of lifeless material energy in the form of a non-living individual material bodily vessels.
All material bodily pathways exist eternally as Mahā-Viṣṇu's dreams of the material creation.
Everything is temporary in the material world because it is always in a constant state of constant maintenance, decline and decay experienced by the individual jiva-souls confined to a temporary material bodily vessel as its passenger who moves along that pathway of material bodily vessels through past, present and future in the material world.
The movement of past, present and future has the side effect of impermanence, decomposition, birth, youth, disease, old age and death.
In the spiritual world of the Vaikuṇṭha planets and Goloka-Vṛndāvana, only the "eternal presence of Krsna" exists, meaning there is no concept of past or future existing like in the material world, therefore in the spiritual world there is no impermanence, decline, decay birth and death there.
This means everything there is eternally fresh and youthful in the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the spiritual world) that are the eternal Kingdoms of God.
Temporary material energy makes up all material bodily vessels or containers (matter) that the individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) enters as a passenger (covered by) in the material world.
When these material bodily vessels wears out and decays, they break down into material elements and merges again back into the oneness of lifeless material energy (matter).
Only when the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) are no longer covered by a decaying material bodily vessel (dead matter), know that their real perpetual spiritual bodily form and identity (living anti-matter) never ages, decays dies or takes birth like a mundane material bodily vessel does.
The individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) eternally remain an individual spiritual person always separate from the mundane material bodily containers they occupy as its passenger.
The individual jiva-souls are covered in the material world by the decaying material energy in the form of a material bodily vessel.
The material world's concept of time is governed by past, present and future, but exists all at the same time to those who can see from above this mundane movement material time that Maha-Visnu always sees.
All material bodily vessels (made from material energy) are occupied by the individual jiva-souls, such dead material bodily vessels are a permanent fixture of the material energies on the pathway of past, present and future owned by Maha-Visnu.
Such material vessels originate from His dreams of the material universe that are eternally existing through the continuous flow of material space-time as the "block material universe" explained above.
All material bodily vessels exist within Maha-Visnu's "Library Of Material Dreams" and are available for "hire" to those individual jiva-souls who have chosen to visit His material creation after choosing to leave the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana.
The constant movement travelling through material time's past, present and future in a sequence of material bodily vessels, is like viewing frame by frame on a movie canister. So, there is no repetition or eternal reoccurrence going on
The individual jiva-souls in the material world are "housed" in a material bodily vessel, this is like viewing the frame after on a film canister that always exist together on the film canister.
In this way, there is only the constant movement of individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) travelling in material bodily vessels (dead matter) as passengers on that permanent roadway that eternally exists for any individual jiva-soul to also travel on.
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who leave their spiritual world to travel through after entering the temporary material world.
Only by properly understanding the fabric of material time can we see each stage of the journey of past, present and future. In other words, past, present and future eternally exist together, all at the same time. As said above this is what the terminology "block material universe" means.
Srila Prabhupada always encouraged us to have personal realizations and yes, the ones here are thought provoking because they are based on Vedic teachings.
Keep in mind, the "dreams" of Maha-Visnu are almost inconceivable to understand, even when Arjuna viewed past, present and future simultaneously and being able to see everything (past, present and future), he was scared and confused because he was seeing his own future and the future of his family.
The reason he could see his future was because it was already existing like an entire roadway from its beginning, to its middle and at its end.
Each dream of Maha-Visnu is always existing like a pathway that the individual jiva-souls traverse down (as explained above) This means the individual jiva-souls are traveling through a material bodily pathway that is already there, what has always existed.
Another way of understanding this is just like when one rewinds a video tape, the contends captured will always be the same at every stage on the tape.
Similarly, the material bodily vessels we are now in always exists for other individual jiva-souls to enter and experience.
This means material time and space is permanently recorded and always exists as a block universe, such are the material dreams of Maha-Visnu.
This also means we take our next birth in a material bodily vessel that already eternally exists in a past, present and future time zone, where the individual jiva-soul moves though the stages of past, present and future, experiencing each moment of the "present" now, meaning birth, childhood, youth, middle age, old age, death of the material vessel the individual jiva-soul is "moving through".
That further means when we choose a bodily vessel, the pathway in its different stages of childhood, youth, middle age, old age etc of that material body, already exists in its time zone because each material bodies time zone is a permanent fixture of this material universe known as the Maha-tattva (material creation).
What we are learning here, is all the 'dreams' of Maha-Visnu are all happening in the "present" which means past, present and future exist simultaneously and we only moving through the stages of a past, present and future.
The dreams (material pathways made of material bodily vessels) of Maha-Visnu are eternal.
The material energy (matter) is "all-one" lifeless matter, and is not the individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) who are individual PERSONS whose real home and origin is the spiritual world as Srila Prabhupada has taught us.
This is important to understand as there are many impersonalists who believe there is one all pervasive life force that is also all the material bodily species are also material energy.
Such philosophy is called impersonalism, their ideas are wrong and dangerous.
So, to be clear in the material creation everything in under the movement time (past, present and future) already exists, like a long winding roadway already exists from its beginning to its end.
This means the pathway or roadway of the material bodily vessels, gross or subtle, the individual jiva-soul possess and enters, like the roadway, is already carved out and we are simply passengers on that roadway in that material bodily vessel for it's journey.
In other words, one who worships the rich and famous can take birth in those material bodily vessels they admire, after being trained up and qualified to take that birth, which in itself would take many, many, many births just for that opportunity to be that famous "material body" for one insignificant life time, similar to Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Bill Gates etc.
What an ignorant selfish waste of time compared to just choosing to return home back to Godhead and be the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka-Vrindavan, the individual jiva-soul's real home and original position.
If those individual jiva-souls in those material vessels knew what they had to go through to attain that famous wealthy materialistic bodily existence, they would have second thoughts about seeking material fame and wealth on this planet or the material heavenly planets.
All material bodily vessels in the material creation must be deserved, and qualified to enter and experience by all individual jiva-souls in the material world.
Usually the most pious living entity in each material universe can take up the post of Lord Brahma when the next universe manifests.
In the same way; we are all awarded with a material bodily vessel according to our past pious and impious activities known as karma.
All individual jiva-souls who understand the fabric of space-time, know that each individual jiva-soul is moving along the many stages of the roadway representing past, present and future (also the pathway of each material bodily vessel they are the passenger in)
However, from above just like one sees the entire journey of a roadway, one is able to see the beginning, middle and end, all at once of that pathway.
This means "materially" one can see all past, present and future existing together, and its every twist and turn on that roadway.
The explanation in the above essay is correctly suggesting that all material bodily vessels are like "permanent" fixture or pathway (real but temporary) that eternally exists as the dreams of Maha-Visnu.
As said above, this may give the impression of eternal repetition but no, the material universe is in a constant state that is above the movement of past, present and future that the jiva-souls only experience by moving or flowing through the material energy existence of the fabric of past, present and future.
In other words, moving along the pathway of twists and turns on the road is compared to the jiva-soul experiencing the birth, childhood, youth, middle age, old age and death of the material bodily vessel the individual jiva-souls are in.
This birth, youth, middle age and death DOES eternally repeat itself, but ONLY because of the material fabric of time (past, present and future), that is continuously existing with the constant flow of visiting individual jiva-souls passing through it.
In other words, what is seen from above (the entire roadway from beginning, middle and end) is the movement of all material time which are Maha-Visnu's dreams all existing simultaneously.
The dreams of Maha-Visnu are the material bodily pathways made of material bodies (dead matter) that travel through the fabric of material energy's space-time of past, present and future, are always available for "hire" to those individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) who choose to enter Maha-Visnu's material creation by leaving the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana.
This means all past, present and future are always existing simultaneously in Maha-Visnu's dreams that some devotees and yogis can also see.
So clearly, there is a constant movement travelling through material time's past, present and future on a permanent pathway made of material bodily vessels from its beginning, middle and end, through birth, disease, old age and death.
This pathway or roadway is always available for others individual jiva-souls to travel through, along that same permanent fixture of the material energy as a roadway and experience those same material bodily vessels that make up the roadway.
Modern science cannot understand the material universe in this way where time travel is always possible but only in this way in the block material universe.
Everything in the material world is dead matter and a permanent fixture of Maha-Visnu's dreaming. No individual life comes from the material world (dead matter), the individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) can only enter the material world from entering from the spiritual world (The Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana) and then pass through the material world's array of material bodily vessels as a passage and passenger.
The "roadways or pathways" of time's "past, present and future" never disappear as explained above, they always exist as a permanent fixture within the fabric of the material world (dead matter) that visiting individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) travel through.
The material bodily vessels, pathways or containers we are in/on, are always the property of Maha-Visnu's dreams that are leased out to any individual jiva-soul qualified, but will always remain his property and part and parcel of His dreaming material creation, available for other individual jiva-souls to also "travel through" to experience their desires found also in Maha-Visnu's material creation.
In Maha-Visnu's dreams, every scenario conceivable is possible and is already existing and available for "hire" to any visiting individual jiva-souls who qualify from their own desires.
Hiring material dreams off Maha-Visnu are similar to visiting a "costume shop" that is full of many different costumes (material bodily pathways) that the individual jiva-soul can choose to enter/travel/on/in or possess.
Every individual jiva-soul who enters the material creation must go to this costume shop of material bodily vessels (dress shop) from the dreams of the sleeping Maha-Visnu.
And then choose which material bodily vessel they want to hire in their attempt to enjoy separate from Krsna in the material world.
This is where the individual jiva-souls are offered a particular material bodily vessel by Maha-Visnu according to their material desires, so they can enter into the material creation with a suitable material body that is in accordance with their own material desires.
Maha-Visnu always owns all such material vessels that are part and parcel of His material creation that He is dreaming.
Therefore, those who have chosen to enter the material creation, must go to Maha-Visnu's "Library Of dreams" and choose a material bodily vessel from His unlimited dreams of all material affairs.
Everything conceivable material bodily vessel or container exists in Maha-Visnu's dreams, every scenario is possible as said above, no matter how strange or bizarre it is, all realities already exists in the dreams of Maha-Visnu.
This means all that there is and all that there will be, every combination of material existence possible, already exists as His dreams.
It is the lifeless material bodily vessels (coming from Maha-Visnu's dreams) that the individual jiva-souls (life) within the billions of Brahmanda material universes coming from Maha-Visnu, enter those material bodily vessels as a passenger. The individual jiva-souls must choose a material bodily vessel, just like one chooses from a variety of costumes in a fancy dress store.
Regarding eternal associates of Krsna like Arjuna, there is a different set of rules there.
The fact is, Arjuna is always with Krsna in innumerable different material universes at one time, and there is only one individual jiva-soul who is Arjuna.
The individual jiva-soul who surrenders to Krsna, can expand or project their consciousness into many different material bodies at the same time and still be just the "one individual jiva-soul" in all those material bodily forms.
Advanced yogis can also do this but limited to eight expansions however, for Krsna's eternal associate like Arjuna, he is in many, many universes simultaneously, where ever Krsna is.
Yes, this is very true as sastra (scripture) tells us but very rare to understand especially in this degraded age of Kali-yuga.
The fact is, the individual jiva-soul in Arjuna's material bodily vessel is the same "individual jiva-soul" in all the different Arjunas throughout all the material universes according to Srila Prabhupada, no other individual jiva-soul can be Arjuna and this further applies to all individual jiva-souls in the spiritual world.
The material world is different because there the individual jiva-souls are covered by a material bodily vessel they are the passenger in. It is not like that in the spiritual world because there is no difference between the self and the spiritual body. Material bodily vessels do not exist in the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the Kingdom of God)
The "one" individual jiva-soul (referring to Arjuna) can expand himself as housed into many different material bodily vessels who are all him playing in different pastimes with Krsna in the material world.
This means no one can become Arjuna because his position is not like Brahmas, the individual jiva-soul of Arjuna is always the the one individual Arjuna no matter where he is with Krsna.
Such a position like Arjuna as Krsna's eternal servant, is very rare.
As said above, a yogi can also project his consciousness and be in 8 different material bodies all at one time. But this is not the case with every material bodily vessel in the material creation. Only some rare individual jiva-souls can possess more than one material bodily vessels at once.
This is not the case with the billions of different Lord Brahmas who are each in their material universe that is deep within the greater Brahmanda universal shell surrounding their inner secondary material universe.
In each case, the material bodily vessel of Lord Brahma is occupied by a different individual jiva-soul as its passenger.
So as said above, in every material bodily vessel of Lord Brahma, there is a different individual jiva-soul every time Maha-Visnu creates all the billions of Brahmanda universes in the material creation.
All the different Brahmas are not the same "individual jiva-souls," there are billions of different individual jiva-souls who can become a Brahma in all the different material secondary universes that are deep inside each Brahmanda material universe that comes from the Body of Maha-Visnu.
There are those who believe the material universe is continuously repeating itself each time Maha-Visnu creates the material Brahmanda universes, but is that true?
Actually, it only "seems" that way because in true reality everything that is and can be, already exists within the dreams of Maha-Visnu.
A dream the individual jiva-souls "hires" off Maha-Visnu is also a permanent roadway or pathway that many individual jiva-souls can travel on.
This means the material universe, including all bodily vessels, are continuously existing with an endless flow of individual jiva-souls possessing those material bodies by passing through them like one passes over a roadway.
Therefore it only seems the material universe is repeating itself when in actual fact it is a complete block, like travelling on an already made roadway.
Therefore each material bodily vessel or container eternally exists within the material dreams of Maha-Visnu that are "hired" out by any visiting individual jiva-soul to the material world who has matching desires that are in sync with Maha-Visnu's dreams.
The dreams of Maha-Visnu gives the visiting individual jiva-souls the facilities to fulfill their desires.
The fact is such dreams of material bodies the individual jiva-souls are passengers in, are a permanent "fixture" or pathway of linear time that always exists within the dreams of Maha-Visnu. The visiting individual jiva-souls can travel in those dreams and simultaneously experience their own desires while in the mundane temporary material world.
Remember, all these material bodily containers (matter) are a creation coming from the dreams of Maha-Visnu. In this way all facilities in the material creation come from Maha-Visnu's dreams.
The individual jiva-souls, by their desires, move through the journey of material existence in a material bodily vessel through the pathway of birth, youth, middle age, disease, old age and death and then again rebirth if one fails to get out of this temporary material mundane world of repeated birth and death.
Being in a material bodily vessel or container as its passenger is being on the pathway or road that leads to one's destination based on desires.
All "pathways" (the journey of material bodily vessels) from the dreams of Maha-Visnu that the individual jiva-souls are passengers in have always existed as part and parcel of the fabric of material space-time that many other visiting individual jiva-souls have/can also experience and move through.
In other words, there is always a flow of individual jiva-souls experiencing the road journey of material bodily containers or vessels coming from the dreams of Maha Visnu.
This is what is really happening in the material creation instead of the nonsense eternal repetition or reoccurrence idea.
Each point along the roadway is eternally there eternally as part of the material bodily roadway that the individual jiva-soul passes through experiencing linear time.
All pathways are made of material bodily vessels (from the dreams of Maha-Visnu's), that confine and cover the individual jiva-souls with the fabric of material energy in the form of those material bodily vessel, that move through space-time's past, present and future carrying the individual jiva-souls as the passenger experiencing the effect of birth, youth, disease, old age, and death.
This roadway or pathway of material bodily vessels, is known as linear time, which is the movement forward through past, present and future.
But from outside or above that linear time, rare individual jiva-souls can see the entire roadway, from its beginning middle and end, seen all at once. They can see the movement of past, present and future all exist simultaneously, like seeing from above the view of an entire roadway from its beginning to its end.
The movement of material bodily vessels within the material world explained above, may seem to be repeating themself over and over again however, that is not what's going on in Maha-Visnu's dreams as explained above.
The "block material universe" understanding is where all material bodies always exist as a permanent fixture in matter that the individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) moves through. This means the past, present and future always exist as the fabric of material energy (matter) that the individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) pass through on their journey in the material world.
The material bodily vessels (matter) are occupied by the individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) as their passengers, who move through and along the material pathway of material bodily vessels that make up past, present and future.
It seems that the material universe is constantly being annihilated, and again created by Maha-Visnu, but as explained above, that is only going from seeing this in "linear time." However, seeing everything is seeing past, present and future simultaneously in the material world above that "linear time" of constant annihilation.
This is the "block material universe" creation of Maha-Visnu where past, present and future are always exiting like a roadway's beginning, middle and end always exist to travel on.
Only the linear movement of past, present and future does one see the temporary nature and view of material creation and its constant annihilation.
Also as explained above, there is no such thing as eternal reoccurrence going on, where the material universe repeats itself, no it is not like that at all.
What is really constantly unfolding through the fabric of material energy and time, are permanent pathways of past, present and future made of material bodily vessels coming from Maha-Visnu's dreams that are a permanent fixture the individual jiva-souls as passengers, can enter and pass along and through.
The fact is, all material bodily vessels are the material dreams of Maha-Visnu that are "hired" to individual jiva-souls who have chosen to enter the material world.
All material bodily vessels have no life until they are occupied by individual jiva-souls with one being the prominent one.
All material bodily vessels are a permanent fixture or POST in the material world originating from the dreams from Maha-Visnu.
The visiting individual jiva-souls move through these material vessels that are the pathway of past, present and future, just like one moves along a roadway that always remains after passing on/through it that other individual jiva-souls can also travel on/through the same roadway of material bodily vessels the individual jiva-souls are passengers in.
Another way of looking at this-
Just like in society there exists fancy dress shops where one can go and lease out costumes to experience a particular play (material reality).
Similarly, in the temporary material world every material bodily vessel conceivable exists within Maha-Visnu's "fancy dress shop of material costumes" (His dreams) that one can "hire" from Maha-Visnu.
All such material realities, pathways, bodily vessels, all come from Maha-Visnu's dreams and are available to all visiting individual jiva-souls who choose to enter the material creation.
A constant flow of individual jiva-souls enters those permanent fixed pathways made of material bodily costumes (vessels) the individual jiva-souls wears/and passes through in Maha-Visnu's block material universe.
In other words, just like the costumes in a fancy dress rental shop, all material bodily vessels in the material world are provided to all individual jiva-souls who enter the material world after hiring them off Maha-Visnu.
Therefore, each material bodily "costume" (vessel) is a permanent position situated in linear time on the fabric of material energy coming from Maha-Visnu's dreams who provides the material bodily vessels for the individual jiva-souls to be passengers where they experience birth, youth, disease, old age and death moving through the movement of linear time's, past, present and future as a passenger.
All material bodily vessels are costumes that always remain the property of Maha-Visnu's dreams. They are "hire out" by Him to all visiting individual jiva-souls to be a passenger in, who choose to enter Maha-Visnu's temporary material world (matter) after leaving the spiritual world (anti-matter) of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vṛndāvana (the Kingdom of God)
All "lifeless material bodily vessels" always remain the property of Maha-Visnu, whereas the living individual jiva-souls who are the passengers in those material vessels, are from the spiritual world and not from Maha-Visnu's temporary material world.
Life does not originate from the lifeless material world, the individual jiva-souls (life) only enters the temporary material world after leaving the spiritual world which is the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the Kingdom of God) as said above.
The cycle of decay and renewal, birth and death in this temporary material existence continues on eternally in linear time, with a continuous flow of visiting individual jiva-souls experiencing each material bodily pathway from the dreams of Maha-Visnu.
There is always free will in the spiritual world because without "free will" the individual jiva-souls (devotees) would not be able to voluntarily participate, cooperate and contribute to their relationship with Krsna. Without these qualities above the individual jiva-souls are no better than dead stone.
As said above, all material pathways are a permanent continuous flow of material bodily containers (matter) moving through past, present and future that carry the individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) as a passenger, remains the same, fixed as the fabric of material space-time, are a "hired" dream coming from Maha-Visnu, where the embodied individual jiva-souls experience their journey from birth, childhood, disease, old age and death on that pathway made of material bodily vessels as a passenger.
The individual jiva-souls, who are confined to a material bodily vessel as its passenger while in the material world, travel through a permanent pathway made of material bodily containers as explained above, moving through past, present and future.
However, because the pathway of material bodily vessels always exists, it means there is a constant flow of other individual jiva-souls (living anti-matter) who also enter that same permanent pathway made of material bodily vessels as a new passenger on that permanent pathway, who have fallen from the spiritual world and entered those material bodily vessels as a new traveller. All material bodily vessels and their pathways are "hired" from the dreaming Maha-Visnu.
As explained above, this is also called the "block material universe" which means the material world created by Maha-Visnu's dreams, are always exactly the same that covers every possible outcome, senerio and combination of material energy that covers every desire the visiting individual jiva-souls may have.
All journeys in the material world are an array of permanent established pathways made of material bodily vessels (dead matter), constantly being occupied by a progression of individual jiva-souls who have chosen to enter Maha-Visnu's temporary mundane material world, by leaving the spiritual world to travel on a chosen material pathway made of material bodily vessels, that carry the embodied individual jiva-souls as its passenger, through past, present and future, on a journey in the temporary material world.
In the temporary decaying material world, the individual jiva-souls as passengers in a material bodily vessel choose a pathway made of material bodily vessels (dead matter) that move through material time's past, present and future. These pathways of material bodily vessels eternally exists as the permanent dreams of Maha-Visnu.
Within each material bodily vessel (dead matter) exists an individual jiva-souls (actively living anti-matter) as its passengers. Each individual jiva-soul as that passenger, play the same part in the material world that other individual jiva-souls have experienced, travelling through the fabric of material time's past, present and future on/in a pathway of material bodily vessels as the passenger in those material vessels.
The individual jiva-souls (anti-matter) are passengers within a moving array of material bodily vessels (matter) on their journey through material time's past, present and future.
This pathway of material bodily vessels are a permanent fixture of the fabric of material time within Maha-Visnu's dreaming material world knows as the block universe. The individual jiva-souls are always a passenger moving through the roadway of past, present and future within a material bodily vessel.
In this way, the material bodily vessels are a fixed flowing fabric of the material world's past, present and future, just like the frames on a movie are always part of the movie reel.
Just like the frames on a movie reel always exist, so does past, present and future always exist in the material world that the individual jiva-souls travel through/on as a passenger. In this way, everything that happens within the material world exists for as long as the material world exists.
In other words past, present and future, like the beginning, middle and end of a roadway, are eternally existing just like when one sees a roadway from above, they see its beginning, middle and end simultaneously.
However, remember that the living anti-matter individual jiva-souls are NOT the material bodily vessels (dead matter) they are in as a passenger.
The material bodily vessel is a garment that covers the individual jiva-souls, who are the passenger in that outer garment or material body.
One's relationship with Visnu or Krsna is never impersonal, nor do the individual jiva-souls originate from some nonsense impersonal inactive beginning point in the impersonal brahmajyoti (Krsna's Bodily effulgence)
The word "tatastha-sakti" refers to the marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls) position of having the choice to remain in the spiritual world, or enter to the temporary material world.
So, this terminology marginal living entities (tatastha-sakti) is NOT a place! Marginal means the collective of eternal individual jiva-souls who are on the fence (not literally), it refers to expressing their free-will the way they choose) between the spiritual and material world. It means they have the choice to remain in their natural original home and position in the spiritual world, or they can enter the material world and become a passenger in a temporary material bodily vessel or container.
As saolid above, the marginal position is not a place, it means the individual jiva-souls are sitting on the fence who can enter either side, remain in the spiritual world their natural home, or enter the temporary material world.
Those individual jiva-souls who have made the choice to leave the spiritual world and enter the temporary decomposing material creation, can later, due to the frustration of material life's painful cycle of repeated birth and death, enter an inactive dormant state known as the Brahmajyoti (the impersonal aspect of Brahman) which is Krsna's Bodily effulgence.
The marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls) are known in both the material creation and the impersonal Brahmajyoti as tatastha sakti but not in the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana while there Prabhupada explains here.
Srila Prabhupada - "So this material world is the taṭastha (conditioned) characteristics, and the Spiritual Worlds are the Personal (Vaikuntha) characteristics." (New York, Dec 28, 1966)
Revatīnandana dasa - "Srila Prabhupāda you very clearly explained to me once in a letter that if the jiva-soul then goes into the brahmajyoti, he is considered still fallen. Still fallen. Does that means the whole brahmajyoti is composed of fallen souls? You see my question? If I go there, I'm a jīva-soul, and I go to the brahmajyoti I'm still fallen."
Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes."
Revatīnandana dasa - "That means all jīva-souls there are also fallen souls?"
Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes." (Room Conversation Aug 17, 1971, London)
Srila Prabhupada - ''Existence in the impersonal brahman is also within the category of non-Krsna consciousness, those who are in the brahman effulgence (being inactive) are also in the fallen condition, so there is no question of falling down from a fallen condition." (Letter to: Revatinandana dasa, Los Angeles 13 June, 1970).
The individual jiva-souls original position means they have the same bodily features like Krsna, sat-cit-ananda-vigraha (eternity, knowledge, bliss and form.
The full potential and original feature of all marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls) is a two arm form like Krsna's Form in Vṛndāvana.
Devotee – “Is the original body of the spirit soul a human form?”
Srila Prabhupada – “Yes, human form, God is also human form. "Man is made after the shape of God." I think there is in the Bible, is it not? So God is also like human form. Here you see Krsna, two hands, two legs”.
Hari-sauri dasa – “How do we understand, then, that there are peacocks and flowers and trees in the spiritual world? Are these not eternal forms?”
Srila Prabhupada – [describing material form first]: "Yes, they are more covered, just like if you cover your body with blanket, the hands and legs are invisible but you are not the blanket. So the trees and plants means they are more covered. They are not in full manifestation, the human form is the full manifestation of the individual jiva-soul as a spiritual form."
Hari-sauri dasa - “They are covered in the spiritual world?”
Srila Prabhupada - “Not in the spiritual world, there that is always voluntary, some devotee wants to serve Krsna as flower; they become flower there. If I want to be a flower I shall lie down at the lotus feet of Krsna and become flower, voluntarily, and can change from flower to human body. That is spiritual life, there is no restriction. If some devotee wants to serve Krsna as cow, he serves Krsna as cow, as calf, as flower, as plant, as water, as ground, field, as a flagpole, as a Chariot, or as father, as mother, as friend, as beloved, anything. It is inconceivable, yet a fact." (SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 1-4 Melb, Australia May 20, 1975)
The marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls) are a collective of an unlimited number of individual jiva-souls who are eternal, this means they have always existed like Krsna and therefore never created.
As said above, the individual jiva-souls are called tatastha-sakti or marginal because they can remain in their natural position and original home in the spiritual world, or can choose to enter the temporary material world where they become covered by temporary material bodily vessels. Or can fall even further and become artificially dormant (inactive) in the impersonal Brahmajyoti.
As said above, the individual jiva-souls were never created from any origin (having a starting point) because there is no origin of the individual jiva-souls, they have always existed like Krsna has without a beginning or an end.
Having "free will" is the constitutional make up of all marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls), and is always part and parcel of their eternal character and personality within the spiritual world.
As said above, the marginal living entity (tatastha-sakti) refers to the individual jiva-souls as being on the "border-line," but not literally sitting on some fence as their origin, no, it refers to their ability to express their free-will the way they choose, it is not a place, it is a choice! Marginal means the individual jiva-souls can choose either way, remain in the spiritual world, or enter the material world.
It means that the individual jiva-souls are on the fence, who can go either side - remain in their original position and home in the spiritual world, or choose to enter the temporary material world of repeated birth and death confined as a passenger in a temporary material bodily vessel.
This means the individual jiva-souls can always choose to leave the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka-Vrindavana (The Kingdom of God) if they want at any time, this is what free will allows, and if it didn't freedom of choice, then the individual jiva-souls would have no free will which futher means being unable to voluntarily participate, cooperate and contribute in their own unique individual way.
This is why it is foolish and sad that some big Vedic scholars and Gurus claim once entering the spiritual world, the individual jiva-souls can never again fall down to the material world, which is nonsense, influenced by impersonalism because it denies the individual choice to participate or not.
No, they can fall down again and again if the individual jiva-souls choose to do so because that is what having "free will" allows. And such fall downs have nothing to do with Maya ( the influence of material energy), it is simply the expression of free will.
The fact is, Maya or material energy (matter) does not exist in the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka-Vrindavana (The Kingdom of God), it only exists in Maha-Visnu's creation of the material world where no life exists.
In fact no life comes from the material world, all life, beginning with Mahā-Visnu (Kāraṇodakaśāyī Visnu) and His expansions Garbhodakaśāyī Visnu (Hiraņyagarbha) and Ksirodakaśāyī Visnu (Paramātmā) are ultimately an expansion of Lord Balarama, the first expansion of Lord Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, whose original home is Goloka-Vrindavana in the spiritual world.
All other life (the individual jiva-souls or marginal living entities) enters the dead material world only after voluntarily leaving the spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (the Kingdom of God).
Technically, the material energy (material atoms that appear to be dead) are actually "inactive or dormant" individual life.
Ksirodakaśāyī Visnu as Paramātmā (God), and the "inactive" individual jiva-souls, both exist together even in the material atom (matter) in the material world where the individual jiva-souls remain "inactive" (considered dead), and Paramātmā (God) as the always active witness. This is how Krsna is simultaneously an individual Person, and "all-one" with both His material and spiritual creations.
The choice to leave the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka-Vrindavana is possible because Krsna allows love to be a "two-way" street, this means one can accept or reject Krsna if they choose to do so because they are not forced to love or serve Krsna. All relationships with Krsna are therefore voluntary.
Srila Prabhupada - "Free will means that you can act wrongly. That is free will. Unless there is chance of doing wrong or right, there is no question of free will. Where is free will then? If I act only one sided, that means I have no free will. Because we act sometimes wrongly, that means free will."
Hayagriva dasa - "A man may know better but still act wrongly."
Srila Prabhupada -"Yes, but that is free will, he chooses to misuse his free will. Just like a thief, he knows that his stealingp is bad, but still he does it. That is free will. He cannot check his greediness, so in spite of his knowing that he is doing wrong thing—he will be punished, he knows; he has seen another thief, he was punished, he was put into prison— everything he knows, but still he steals. Why? Misuse of free will. Unless there is misuse of free will, there is no question of free will." (from: Discussions on Rene Descartes philosophy)
Srila Prabhupada – “So everyone can know that independence (free will) means one can use it properly, or one can misuse it. That is independence. If you make it one way only, that is not independence, that is force.” (Los Angeles, June 23, 1975)
Srila Prabhupada – “You have got little independence therefore you can violate. Because you are part and parcel of God you have got independence (free will), proportionately, therefore if you likes you can enter the temporary material world if you choose, that independence (free will) has to be accepted, little independence. We can misuse that." (Based on conversation at Mayapur, West Bengal India Feb 19, 1976)./////**
