Crossing the Date Line

Tonight we are departing from Fiji on a non-stop flight that will take us to Los Angeles. One amazing thing about this flight is that departs Fiji at 10:50PM and arrives in Los Angeles on the same day at 1:05PM which is 9 hours and 45 minute BEFORE it leaves from Fiji. If I were noting down my activities in a diary, I would be describing what I was doing at 2:00PM on Tuesday January 15th having lunch at the home of a devotee named Vrajanath Das in Tavua, Fiji, and I would also be describing meeting Balarama Das 5,500 miles away in the Los Angeles airport at exactly the same time!

If we consider that in this material world such inconceivable things can be true, then the inconceivable aspects of the spiritual world become more readily acceptable. For example, time as we know it does not exist in the spiritual world. This means that if someone falls from the spiritual world, there is no time when he did so. And when he returns to the spiritual world there will be no time when he re-entered. In other words, he will have never left. What this means is that at the present moment we are only imagining ourselves to be in this material world. Our present position of identifying ourselves with these material bodies subject to birth, death, old age, and disease caught up in the dimension of time and space is a dream state only. The actual reality is that we are eternal spirit-souls, servants of Krishna, full of bliss and full of knowledge. Now we simply have to wake up from this dream and engage once again in our normal activities in the association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Where Do We Come From?

As spirit souls, where do we come from?

The insignificant Cit Ananda das
Mexico

Answer: From Krishna

According to Krishna's statement in the Bhagavad-gita and Lord Brahma's statement in the Brahma-samhita, and according to other authoritative scriptural references, we are all emanating from the transcendental body of Lord Sri Krishna. Just as the sun is emanating sunshine all over the universe, in a similar way, Krishna is emanating from his transcendental form innumerable living beings throughout the totality of existence.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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