Krsna never tells His devotees how to think or what to offer, Krsna prefers His devotees to choose for themselves how to serve Him.
Srila Prabhupada - "The individual jiva-soul's position in the spiritual world is always voluntary, some devotees want to serve Krsna as flower; so 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 one can change their spiritual bodily form, from flower to human bodily form, that is spiritual life. There is no restriction, if a devotee wants to serve Krsna as cow, they serve Krsna as cow, as calf, as flower, as plant, as water, as ground, as field or pathway, as father, as mother, as friend, as beloved, anything is possible, it is inconceivable, yet a fact." (SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 1-4, Melb, Australia May 20, 1975)
Krsna's "all-pervasive life force" (anti-matter) does not appear as "all-one" as some yogis, devotees, students, scholars, philosophers, scientists and mundane religionist wrongly believe, Krsna's creation is both simultaneously "one" but "different" with unlimited individual personalities.
For example, the individual jiva-souls created by Krsna have their own separate independent existence from Krsna, that He allows to create diversity and individual unique contributions the individual jiva-souls can choose to make separate from Krsna's absolute control.
The purpose of expressing free will is having a "two-way two-sided" cooperative reciprocation between Krsna and the individual jiva-souls.
The fact is, genuine love can never exist with just one, there must be two, that is also why Krsna created Srimati Radharani just so He can have a more intimate relationship with another - with Radharani His eternal consort.
The paradox in Krsna's over all creation, even though He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, is He always allows a "two-sided" voluntary unique relationship to exist between Himself and His individual jiva-souls also.
We should know that this amazing knowledge Srila Prabhupada has given us, explains everything, but only understood by those spiritually qualified to understand.
Spiritual energy (anti-matter) is an indestructible unlimited collection of unique individual living units (persons).
Which means individual eternal living personalities as a perpetual spiritual bodily form, headed by Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, and His individual direct Visnu-tattva expansions, and His devotee (jiva-tattvas or jiva-souls) expansions, all being individual persons, each as a eternal unique spiritual bodily form.
Krsna also has a further quality unique only to Him and His Visnu-tattva expansions like Paramatma (supersoul).
Kṛṣṇa the Supreme Lord is not only just an individual person, He is also "all-pervasive" and is "all-one" with His spiritual and material creations. Krsna is "simultaneously one and different from His creation" as His Form Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu teaches (who is Radharani and Krsna combined)
The relationship between Krsna and His devotees is always a "two-sided" voluntary loving reciprocation and cooperation, based on loving exchanges, collaboration, returns, intensional benefactions and individual unique personal offerings.
Such a unique detached side with the individual jiva-souls from Krsna's absolute control, allows an independent separated nature within Krsna's creation, where the individual jiva-souls can always choose to express themselves with their own thoughts and actions the way they want, seemingly outside Krsna's absolute control, even though that sense of independence is also within Krsna's absolute plan because nothing can happen or exist outside Krsna's plan, as explained in Bhagavad Gita As It Is -
"Not a blade of grass can move without the will of the Lord."
The full spiritual expression and potential of the living entities in the spiritual world (the Vaikuntha planets and Krsna’s (God's) central planet Goloka Vrindavana) is always experienced by Krsna, His unlimited Visnu-tattva expansions like Narayana, Visnu, Maha-Visnu, Garbhodakashayi Visnu, Paramatma (supersoul) etc.
And by His eternal individual separated jiva-souls (devotees), also expansions of Kṛṣṇa, who always experience a unique relationship with Krsna in a "two-way" open personal exchange, based on independent expressions of loving reciprocation and voluntary cooperation.
Krsna allows it to be this way because only by having a "two-way" relationship of loving voluntary exchanges between Kṛṣṇa and His expansions, is giving back to them in kindness and in quantity (reciprocating), allowing loving meaningful unique mysterous exchanges, returns and cooperation exist.
By having His creation on this "two-way" street of voluntary service, Kṛṣṇa is allowing a more diverse reality that encourages unlimited voluntary personal contributions from His devotees in the endless eternally youthful Kingdom of God.
The eternal relationship with Krsna (God) is openly expressed from "two angles" instead of one (just Krsna), on a "two-way" street instead of a one-sided autocracy that allows loving voluntary contributions, personal original exchanges, reciprocation that further allows independent unique expressions from the devotees (individual jiva-souĺs) that forever enrich and blissfully expand the relationship between Krsna and His direct expansions, and individual devotees (jiva-souls).
In other words, real love (personalism) is only possible between "two persons" both contributing to the relationship, and never just one person including Krsna (impersonalism).
This allows genuine personalism that is only fully experienced on a "two-way" street, to prevail, denying impersonalism, or a "one-sided" loveless cold stagnant dictatorship.
Srila Prabhupāda – "Love means a relationship between "two persons," then there is exchange, then there is love. I must deal with you open-hearted, you must deal with me open-hearted, then there is love. So if you want to love Kṛṣṇa, God, then these things must be there." (Aug 9, 1976, Tehran)
Srila Prabhupada - "The impersonalist philosophy is oneness, so how there be love with just one? Is it possible? Have you got any such experience that love means one? No. Love means two. There must be two, the lover and the beloved. Kṛṣṇa is already lover. He loves you so much that He's trying to get you back. That is Kṛṣṇa's attempt. "Please, My dear boy, or My dear friend, My dear servant." (SB, Canto 2 Ch 1 text 3, Paris, June 12, 1974)
This means the individual jiva-souls (devotees) in the spiritual world can always express themselves as they choose and feel while serving Krsna, being independent from Krsna's authoritarian control that He allows so a two-way voluntary exchange can exist with His devotees.
Krsna allows this paradox (seemingly giving up His absolute control) to happen so that independent unique thoughts and actions from the individual jiva-souls can exist and always be openly expressed independently from Krsna in their own unique way, in unlimited personal ways that forever expand diversity in the spiritual world.
Freedom of self-expression (free-will) must exist in the spiritual world on a "two-way" platform so the individual jiva-souls can express themselves in a particular service that they voluntary choose to do, and not chosen for them by Krsna, this is what a two-way street means.
Each individual jiva-soul eternally has their own unique independent personality and character that allows them to forever voluntary expand their variety of devotional contributions (service) to Krsna.
Therefore, the individual jiva-souls are always able to voluntary choose to serve Krsna in their own unique way, or can even reject Krsna if they choose.
Without having such freedom of expression within one's individual constitution, then genuine voluntary loving exchanges, reciprocation and free will can never exist.
If Krsna denied the individual jiva-souls their freedom of expression (free-will), allowing them to eternally experience an independent sense of self, which is being able to make their own voluntary contributions eternally, then their existence as a unique meaningful individual person has no meaning at all, making them no better than dead stone or lifeless matter.
So, how does "free will" and the sense of being independent from Krsna work, when in actual fact, the individual jiva-souls are always fully dependent on Krsna and His Visnu-tattva expansions like Maha-Visnu?
All that the individual jiva-souls have, plan and have, have always fitted into Krsna ultimate plan, where Krsna is always the Supreme Lord and controller of all that there is?
Krsna allows the individual jiva-souls to do what ever they desire (choose), and such desires are always for filled by His Visnu-tattva expansions like Maha-Visnu, Garbhodakashayi Visnu, Brahma and the demigods in the material world who build and manage the temporary material world (Krsna's separated external energies) with their servants.
Why does Krsna allow the individual jiva-souls to express themselves seemingly independent from Him, that even includes rejecting Krsna if they choose, when in reality everything is Krsna's creation and belongs to Him, where all that there is, is under His control and always dependent on Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes?
The fact is, nothing can operate or exist separate from Krsna, not even a blade of grass can move without the will of the Lord. This is because Krsna (God) is the origin of all the spiritual and material worlds.
So how can the individual jiva-souls eternally experience a unique sense of independence and free will separate from Krsna?
The answer is explained above, paradoxically the individual jiva-souls have always been able to express themselves in their own unique way independent from Krsna and Viṣṇu because such freedom of expression, thoughts and deeds have always been part and parcel of Krsna's ultimate plan that is the only way of allowing a "two-way" open contributing connection and exchange between Kṛṣṇa and His individual devotees.
The individual jiva-souls having free will and an independent feeling of a sense of self is also within Krsna's absolute plan.
In this way, Krsna's devotees (the individual jiva-souls) can eternally think for themselves and make their own decisions on how they want to voluntary serve Krsna in so many progressive ways, or not serve Him at all if they choose. This is the reality of free will sanctioned by Krsna and fully under His control.
This independence and free will gives the individual jiva-souls their unique autonomous nature that allows them to act as they desire seemingly separate from Krsna's total control.
But this only happens because Krsna allows it, after all, it is all His creation.
Such independence allows a "two-way" voluntary relationship between Krsna and His devotees, where the individual jiva-souls can act in almost anyway they choose, even against the desires of Kṛṣṇa if they want.
This means Krsna always allows the individual jiva-souls to express themselves in their own unique way, separate from being always controlled by Krsna like a puppet master controls every movement of his puppets.
Krsna knows that such absolute power of control in a "one-sided" relationship that denies two-way is loveless impersonalism.
This is why Krsna allows a two-way relationship of voluntary service because He knows that without this, there can never be loving exchanges and cooperative reciprocation between Kṛṣṇa and His individual jiva-souls.
Even though Krsna is the Supreme controller, without allowing the individual jiva-souls to also have their own unique freedom of choice, actions and thoughts, then His Kingdoms of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana would be loveless cold impersonal paradises, because love can never be experienced or shared with just one, not even Krsna or Visnu, there must be two.
Those foolish naive individual persons who only want to be Krsna's mindless pawn or non-contributing puppet and "yes" men and women, who are only told what to do, and how and what to think, are practising impersonalism (spiritual suicide) to a genuine Vaisnava devotee.
The full devotional potential of the individual jiva-souls does not allow them to be mindless brainless puppets with no personal voluntary contributions but who are always controlled by the dictates and demands of an impersonal puppeteer.
"Free will" means one can choose to accept or reject Krsna otherwise without that choice, the concept of loving exchanges is meaningless and free will does not exist.
Srila Prabhupada - "So, unless there is a possibility of misusing our free will, there is no question of freedom." (Dialectical Spiritualism, Critique of Descartes).
Srila Prabhupada - "If you have no free will, then you are a stone. The stone has no free will. You want to be stone? Then you must have free will!" (Aug 5, 1976, New Mayapur France)
As said above the paradox here is the individual jiva-souls have their independence and free will too just like Krsna does even though He is the Supreme controller of all things.
In other words, each individual jiva-soul has their own unique personality and character always separate and independent from Krsna's Personality and absolute control (although this is paradox because Krsna is the cause of all causes and not a blade of grass moves without His sanction).
Krsna allows it to be be this to create diversities and a "two-sided relationship" between the individual jiva-souls and Krsna.
If it was all "one-way traffic" without any diversity and independent contributions (offerings) uniquely coming from each individual jiva-soul without any interference in anyway from Krsna (that He personally allows so diversity eternally exists)
Therefore, even though Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, and all living entities are fully dependent on Krsna, the paradox here is the individual jiva-souls have their unique freedom too eternally.
Free will only has meaning when the individual jiva-souls can express themselves freely in a "two-sided" voluntary affair of loving exchanges and reciprocation with Krsna.
In other words, loving reciprocation is only possible in a "two-way" exchange between both the individual jiva-souls and Kṛṣṇa, both contributing to the relationship's expansion of nectarine mellows of devotional service in a two-way exchange.
Yes, loving exchanges and reciprocation are only eternally possible on a "two-way street. The word "reciprocation" only has meaning when there are two involved, never just one!
Free will only has meaning when the individual jiva-souls can express themselves in an open "two-sided" loving affair without being manipulated, used or bullied in anyway.
Also being able to reject Krsna proves that "free will" does truly exist, if one was unable to reject Krsna then that only proves one does not have free will.
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." (Philosophy Discussions with Rene Descartes)
Srila Prabhupada – "So everyone can know that independence means one can use it properly, one can misuse it. That is independence. If you make it one way only, that you cannot become fall down, that is not independence. That is force." (Mayapur, June 20, 1973)
Having free will (freedom of expression) is the eternal constitutional make up of every marginal living entity (jiva-soul), and is the foundation for the individual jiva-soul's voluntary relationship with Krsna.
Srila Prabhupāda – "Love means a relationship between "two persons," then there is exchange, then there is love. I must deal with you open-hearted, you must deal with me open-hearted, then there is love. So if you want to love Kṛṣṇa, God, then these things must be there." (Aug 9, 1976, Tehran)
Even though Krsna allows the "freedom of expression" the individual jiva-souls have, it is really for His amusement, to see what they do with their eternal freedom of expression.
Krsna at all times always has genuin eternal loving affection for His individual jiva-soul expansions (devotees) far more than they can ever have for Him.
Yes, Krsna allows "free will" just to see what happens when the individual jiva-souls are given the freedom to voluntary make their own choices, decisions and unique contributions.
Krsna always remains the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes and all that is happening is also His divine plan.
Just like the Sun-disc and the sun-rays cannot exist separately from each other, similarly Krsna is never separate from His variety of living entities known as-
1 - Visnu-tattvas, unlimited direct expansions of Krsna like Narayana, Maha-Visnu, Garbhodakashayi Visnu, Paramatma (super soul) are also Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes. They have 93.75% of Krsna's qualities.
2 - Sakti-tattva as its full potential meaning - in this case refers to the servants of Srimati Radharani (Her unlimited expansions) in the spiritual world. They also have 93.75% of Krsna's qualities.
3 - Siva-tattva, Lord Siva and his various expansions who tend to stay in the material world. He has 85.938% of Krsna's qualities.
4 - Jiva-tattva, the individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities), known as the "separated living entities" meaning they can choose to stay in the spiritual world with Krsna and Visnu, or enter the temporary material world and artificially imitate Krsna by attempting to be the controller of their destiny. They have 78.125% of Krsna's qualities.
Also, each eternal jiva-soul is a unique one of a kind independent individual, who has their own unique personality separate from Krsna's Personality, and all other individual jiva-souls.
Loving devotional service and unique offerings to Krsna, is always based on a "two-way" voluntary exchange of personal cooperative feelings manifesting as loving acts of devotion between Kṛṣṇa and His devotees, who go on to voluntarily contribute their own unique expressions (offerings) to Him as the real act of surrendering to Krsna's will, that does not deny the free will and unique voluntary offerings of each individual jiva-soul.
On the other hand, when actions expressed in a "one-way" domineering forceful mood from a "so called God or His representative" in His Kingdom that denies personal voluntary contributions expressed in a "two-way" exchange of feelings and cooperation, only leaves the individual jiva-souls no better than dead useless stone explained above by Srila Prabhupada.
Srila Prabhupada - "Love means you take and you give also. Suppose if you love somebody and you simply take from him, but you don't give. Oh, do you think it is very good? No. It is not good. That is not love. That is exploitation. If I go on simply taking from you, and if I don't offer you anything, that is simply exploitation." (Lecture BG, Ch 9 text 2-5, New York City, Nov 23, 1966)
Srila Prabhupada - "We have got the propensity to love. Love means somebody else. Love cannot be one or love cannot be executed by only one, there must be two. I love somebody; somebody loves me, there must be lover, there must be beloved, and the transaction, then love." (SB, Canto 1 Ch 2 text 6, Delhi, Nov 12, 1973)
Srila Prabhupada - "The impersonalist philosophy is oneness, so how there be love with just one? Is it possible? Have you got any such experience that love means one? No. Love means two. There must be two, the lover and the beloved. Kṛṣṇa is already lover. He loves you so much that He's trying to get you back. That is Kṛṣṇa's attempt. "Please, My dear boy, or My dear friend, My dear servant." (SB, Canto 2 Ch 1 text 3, Paris, June 12, 1974)
Srila Prabhupada – "You have got little independence (free will) therefore you can violate. Because you are part and parcel of God you have got independence, proportionately, that independence has to be accepted, little independence, we can misuse that." (Mayapur, Feb 19, 1976)<××>
