How does Krishna cover the large distances between say Vrinadavan and Barsana while performing pastimes?

Question from Pancha Pandava Pr:

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question from Pancha Kanda Prabhu we see in Vrindavan the distances are quite large so if Krishna goes to Barsana to meet Radharani or he goes to the forest to perform pastimes how do they cover such large distances if we have to go by buses we often, it takes several hours to go from one place to another so won’t it be both time consuming and also exhausting answer is actually Jim Goswami in his Brahma Samhita commentary talks about the nature of the spiritual world and this is elaborated by our subsequent Acharyas and he describes that the essence of the spiritual world is that everything is arranged for the pastimes of Krishna so time and space in the spiritual world are not insentient material dimensions as they are thought of in the material world in the spiritual world time and space are all actually meant for the service of Krishna only and they act for the pleasure of Krishna so just as when Krishna wants to perform Rastlila for a long time then he doesn’t have to bother about time the time is running around, he simply expands time and performs Rastlila for one night of Brahma, so just as he can expand time, similarly for the pastimes of Krishna even space doesn’t have to stay static space expands sometimes and contracts sometimes so it is described that Vrindavan itself is like a lotus flower in the spiritual world and when the lotus flower blossoms all its petals spread apart and at another time the lotus flower withdraws itself and it sort of shrinks, at that time all the lotus petals come closer so similarly when Krishna wants to perform specific pastimes at that time depending on where he is and how far he wants to be from there the whole spiritual abode is arranged in such a way that either expands or contracts, so the distances that we face we experience are at the material level because we are currently in material consciousness and we experience Vrindavan only at the external material level but at this material Vrindavan is both same also and different also from the spiritual Vrindavan it is different in the sense that there is much deeper reality there which we can’t perceive so because space is also subordinate to Krishna and space is meant for the service of Krishna therefore distances in the spiritual world contract and expand whenever it is required so when Krishna has to go to the forest in Vrindavan so at that time space contracts and Krishna is able to go very quickly so in one sense how it works is that there is for everything that is to be done there is always abundant of space and at the same time it is not that things are very far away that means when a particular pastime is to be performed at a particular place then the space over there expands by Krishna’s will as a part of Krishna’s pastimes so that there is never any shortage of space but at the same time when Krishna has to go from one place to another it is not that one has to go over a long distance to attain the next place because at that time space contracts and in that way Krishna is able to perform his pastimes in the supremely relishing way so where lot of space is required, space expands and facilitates Krishna’s pastimes where one has to go from one place to another at that time the space of Vrindavan contracts and that’s how Krishna is able to go effortlessly or with very little effort from one place to another and continue pastimes in that second place this is actually the wonderful nature of the spiritual world everything is arranged for the pleasure