The jiva-souls are eternal spiritual living PERSONS and can never be destroyed, terminated or extinguished, the jiva-souls are indestructible as Bhagavad Gita As It Is explains-
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be." (BG, Ch 2 text 12, 1983 edition)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - “That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul." (BG, Ch 2 text 17, 1983 edition)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - “Neither he who thinks the living entity the slayer nor he who thinks it slain is in knowledge, for the self slays not nor is slain." (BG, Ch 2 text 19, 1983 edition)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain." (BG, Ch 2 text 20 “corrected” 1983 edition)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind." (BG, Ch 2 text 23, 1983 edition)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same." (BG, Ch 2 text 24, 1983 edition)
Srila Prabhupada – "There is no new souls. New and old are due to this material body, but the jiva-soul is never born and never dies, so if there is no birth, how can there be new souls?" (Letter to Jagadisa 7th Sep 1970)
For loving exchanges to truly exist between Krsna and the jiva-souls, the jiva-souls also must have the right to voluntarily express themselves, which includes being able to choose to leave the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka Vrindavana at anytime, and return to the material world.
Therefore, returning back home, back to Godhead is not necessarily permanent because there is ALWAYS a choice (free will) eternally.
Also, no two jiva-souls are the same, each has thir own unique individual identity and independence. In this way, spiritual energy is NOT all one.
Only the material energy is "all-one" where the material bodily vessel breaks down into material elements and merges back into the "oneness" of inert (dead) material energy. Spiritual energy is NOT impersonal (all-one) like that.
Spiritual energy is NOT divided into individual spiritual PERSONALITIES (jiva-souls), because Krsna's energy (His spiritual bodily effulgence) IS already eternally an array of individual independent spiritual bodily PERSONALITIES (jiva-souls), with Krsna being the Supreme PERSON and simultaneously all pervasive Personality of Godhead and cause of ALL causes who is in, and behind EVERYTHING there is.
In Goloka-Vrindavana, each jiva-soul naturally gives the very best of who they are as an independent thinking individual person. Even on the spiritual platform, the best offering a jiva-soul can give to Krsna is pleasing His great devotees or dear friends being the servant of the servant of Krsna.
Also, because of unlimited variety, each jiva-souls offerings to the Lord are often a very different standard to what other souls offer.
Just like the story of Hunaman building the Bridge from Sri Lanka to India.
In the construction of the Bridge, there were many small ants that also helped and contributed to the best of their abilities in gathering small pebbles to build the bridge and please Lord Ramachandra.
In the eyes of Lord Ramachandra, the massive boulders Hunaman gathered in his service, and the small pebbles the ants gathered in their service, was equal in the Lords eyes because each were offering their very best.
In this way, each jiva-soul has their own level of excellence that suites them. This means the full potential of one jiva-soul, is very different from the full potential of another jiva-soul, like the above story.
Also, it is important to understand that no two jiva-soul's are the same in the spiritual world as said above, each have their own unique traits.
The individual personality that each jiva-soul has, is very different in many ways from the personality and character of other jiva-souls. Personalism is based on these facts. This is because each individual jiva-soul has their own personality separate from Krsna's Personality.
It is inconceivable how Krsna's energies work
In Goloka-Vrindavana, each jiva-soul naturally gives the very best of who they are as an independent thinking individual person. Even on the spiritual platform, the best offering a jiva-soul can give to Krsna is pleasing His great devotees or dear friends being the servant of the servant of Krsna.
Also, because of unlimited variety, each jiva-souls offerings to the Lord are often a very different standard to what other souls offer.
Just like the story of Hunaman building the Bridge from Sri Lanka to India.
In the construction of the Bridge, there were many small ants that also helped and contributed to the best of their abilities in gathering small pebbles to build the bridge and please Lord Ramachandra.
In the eyes of Lord Ramachandra, the massive boulders Hunaman gathered in his service, and the small pebbles the ants gathered in their service, was equal in the Lords eyes because each were offering their very best.
In this way, each jiva-soul has their own level of excellence that suites them. This means the full potential of one jiva-soul, is very different from the full potential of another jiva-soul, like the above story.
Also, it is important to understand that no two jiva-soul's are the same in the spiritual world as said above, each have their own unique traits.
The individual personality that each jiva-soul has, is very different in many ways from the personality and character of other jiva-souls. Personalism is based on these facts. This is because each individual jiva-soul has their own personality separate from Krsna's Personality.
Each jiva-soul has their own unique sense of self awareness, abilities and talents that are unique to ONLY them making each individual jiva-soul totally different from all others.
The Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, or the Kingdom of God, is where the jiva-soul's natural independent identity and personal individual contributions shine and flourish at their full potential as the individual marginal living entities (jiva-souls) they are eternally.
This allows each jiva-soul to experience the full realization of who they are AS their svarupa spiritual bodily form, which is the full potential of each jiva-souls constitution who are all naturally Lord Krsna's eternal servant.
Love or service as being Krsna's eternal servant is ALWAYS a two-way street, meaning it is ALWAYS an exchange of loving reciprocal emotions and actions, ONLY then can love become real and personal.
Therefore, real love is expressed in the mood of reciprocation that enables loving exchanges to takes place.
In this way, loving devotional service in Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavan is NEVER a one-sided impersonal "master and slave" relationship.
No, Krsna will NEVER force a jiva-souls to love him because REAL love can only work ESPECIALLY with God, ONLY when there is reciprocation.
As explained and very important to understand, NO two jiva-souls are the same in the spiritual world, EVEN when they have a 4 armed spiritual body on the Vaikuntha planets and look similar to Visnu/Narayana.
This is because each jiva-soul in Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavan have their own individual sense of self, identity, personality and individual character that is unique to each of them expressed fully AS their Svarupa spiritual body.
Unlike the mundane temporary material creation, where one's full spiritual potential is suppressed and buried within material bodily coverings trapping the jiva-soul in the horrible frustrating cycle of birth and death.
In this way, each jiva-soul's personal sense of self is part and parcel of their marginal constitution eternally in both the spiritual and material worlds, but ONLY experienced in its full potential in Vaikuntha or Goloka-Vrindavan.
These are the qualities of each jiva-soul or marginal living entity that enable them to selflessly serve Krsna in their own unique personal way, exclusive to each individual jiva-soul in Goloka-Vrindavana or the Vaikuntha planets.
Surrender to Krsna therefore, NEVER extinguishes one's personal sense of self that is eternally an independent thinking person with free will and individual identity.
Real love is ALWAYS reciprocal, it is NEVER impersonal because surrender to Krsna NEVER diminishes one's sense of self that can offer, in service to Krsna and His pure devotees, the very best they can give.
To be Krsna's eternal servant, these qualities must be there.
If we lost our individuality, free will and the ability to express our personal love for Krsna in our own unique way, then that will only make us no better than a dead stone.
The Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, or the Kingdom of God, is where the jiva-soul's natural independent identity and personal individual contributions shine and flourish at their full potential as the individual marginal living entities (jiva-souls) they are eternally.
This allows each jiva-soul to experience the full realization of who they are AS their svarupa spiritual bodily form, which is the full potential of each jiva-souls constitution who are all naturally Lord Krsna's eternal servant.
Love or service as being Krsna's eternal servant is ALWAYS a two-way street, meaning it is ALWAYS an exchange of loving reciprocal emotions and actions, ONLY then can love become real and personal.
Therefore, real love is expressed in the mood of reciprocation that enables loving exchanges to takes place.
In this way, loving devotional service in Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavan is NEVER a one-sided impersonal "master and slave" relationship.
No, Krsna will NEVER force a jiva-souls to love him because REAL love can only work ESPECIALLY with God, ONLY when there is reciprocation.
As explained and very important to understand, NO two jiva-souls are the same in the spiritual world, EVEN when they have a 4 armed spiritual body on the Vaikuntha planets and look similar to Visnu/Narayana.
This is because each jiva-soul in Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavan have their own individual sense of self, identity, personality and individual character that is unique to each of them expressed fully AS their Svarupa spiritual body.
Unlike the mundane temporary material creation, where one's full spiritual potential is suppressed and buried within material bodily coverings trapping the jiva-soul in the horrible frustrating cycle of birth and death.
In this way, each jiva-soul's personal sense of self is part and parcel of their marginal constitution eternally in both the spiritual and material worlds, but ONLY experienced in its full potential in Vaikuntha or Goloka-Vrindavan.
These are the qualities of each jiva-soul or marginal living entity that enable them to selflessly serve Krsna in their own unique personal way, exclusive to each individual jiva-soul in Goloka-Vrindavana or the Vaikuntha planets.
Surrender to Krsna therefore, NEVER extinguishes one's personal sense of self that is eternally an independent thinking person with free will and individual identity.
Real love is ALWAYS reciprocal, it is NEVER impersonal because surrender to Krsna NEVER diminishes one's sense of self that can offer, in service to Krsna and His pure devotees, the very best they can give.
To be Krsna's eternal servant, these qualities must be there.
If we lost our individuality, free will and the ability to express our personal love for Krsna in our own unique way, then that will only make us no better than a dead stone.
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! But don't misuse your free will. But don't try to become stone either. That is not life." (Aug 5, 1976, New Mayapur France)
Srila Prabhupada – "So everyone can know that independence 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 - "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 misuses his. Just like a thief, he knows that his stealing, it 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." (Excerpt from: Philosophy Discussions on Rene Descartes 1976)^^
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