His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami with his disciple Gauragopala dasa in the bacground playing the mrdunga drum at 3rd 1974 Ratha-Yatra festival in Melbourne Australia.

The mahat-tattva (material creation) is real but temporary. 

In Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, the actions, thoughts and dreams of the marginal living entity or devotee's are all real, are all on the same level of reality. The highest and nature expression of the marginal living entity is as theit nitya-siddha-svarupa devotional body as already explained. This is hard for us to understand from our present dimensional platform of consciousness in the mahat-tattva because we are governed by the divided eternal presents that manifests as past, present, future, decay and forgetfulness while our secondary consciousness (nitya-baddha jiva-sakti) is restricted to the mahat-tattva. On the absolute level every dream and thought is as real as ones deeds. Even in the heavenly planets within the mahat-tattva, where ones life force (nitya-baddha jiva-sakti) is confined to an ethereal body in a sub-space dimension of the mahat-tattva, ones thoughts and deeds are on an equal footing. The heavenly realm or atmosphere is completely different from our secular condition on this gross material planet where the ethereal or subtle body that houses the jiva consciousness, is further restricted and restrained by a biological vessel.

So how are we to understand that our dreams are also real and transmitted as the nitya-baddha conscious state or living force we call the jiva-sakti?

Lord Krishna or the Supreme Personality of Godhead is always the absolute truth with an all-attractive Vigraha or Bodily Form yet is also simultaneously everywhere personally and impersonally within His creation. Krishna is always as His beautiful Syamasundara form that never vacates from His Goloka-Vrndavana central abode yet is simultaneously manifested as unlimited four armed Vishnu Forms throughout the Vaikuntha planets. Both these abodes are the perpetual Kingdom of Krishna that exists in the eternal present devoid of past and future as the Brahma Samhita tells us. Vishnu and Lakshmi in the Vaikunthas where their devotees are in the mood of servitorship and Radha Krishna in Goloka-Vrndavana where Krishna mood is more intermit with His devotees in the disposition of friendship and conjugal love.

Even though Krishna is eternally in His central Goloka-Vrndavana Planet that resembles a lotus flower as shown above, He also resides as Vishnu in the surrounding Vaikuntha Planets. Krishna further expands Himself from His Sankarsana or Balarama bodily form to the sleeping Maha-Vishnu form who builds His own abode in one corner of the Spiritual Sky as shown above that is called the mahat-tattva or material creation. Maha-Vishnu is never affected by this dark cloud He has constructed in His corner of the Spiritual Sky (shown above) that exists in a completely different dimensional phenomenon of time and space than the Vaikuntha planets. In His mahat-tattva (jada-jagat- lifeless world) there is also eternal time however, it is divided by past, present and future which has the by-product phenomenon of impermanence, decay birth and death that does not exist in the perpetual ‘present’ in Goloka-Vrndavana or Vaikuntha (cid-jagat) which makes up the majority of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti.

The original and eternal position of all living individuals, known as the marginal living entities is their perpetual rasa (devotional mood) nitya-siddha-svarupa body that is eternally serving Krishna in the ‘eternal present’ where there is no past or future as previously explained.

This means there is also no decay, impermanence birth, disease, old age, death and forgetfulness in the perpetual Kingdom of God known as Goloka-Vrndavana and the Vaikuntha planets. If we are to correctly understand that we all originate from Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, such realizations are only possible by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and without his mercy one will never understand. Everything Srila Prabhupada said and wrote must be understood in the context of His books, lectures, morning walks and classes. This is the correct way to appreciate the criteria of guru, sadhu, and shastra. All interpretations of his teachings that fail these criteria of guru, sadu and shastra are to be considered bogus; therefore everything in this book is based very clearly on the teachings of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami.