Of course everyone's effort to help themselves is different, meaning as long as one is doing the very best THEY can do, then that is the full potential of their efforts.
Lord Ramachandra saw the big boulders Hunaman carried to build the bridge between Sri Lanka and India just as important as small ants carrying grains of sand to build the same bridge because both were giving the very best they could do.
Everyone's full potential is different, this is important to understand.
Only then will Krishna help you when He sees you trying your very best to help yourself to remember Him.
Krishna actually promises this in the Bhagavad Gita As It Is.
Because of individuality, each jiva has their own independent personality, character and sense of self that allows them to ''choose'' how THEY want to serve Krishna in Goloka-Vrindavan in the loving exchanges of reciprocation.
Krishna loves to see devotees thinking for themselves of what they can offer to Him.
Otherwise if Krishna does everything for you, how can there be genuine love?
One is simply a mindless drone or slave, no, Krishna does NOT want impersonal followers like that.
Real love is reciprocal, it is NEVER a one way street where surrender to Krishna takes away one's sense of self, individuality and unique personality.
The "highest independence" is "choosing" to be fully dependent on Krishna as the unique independent jiva soul one is eternally. In this way choosing to offer the very best of who they are based on their own personality and unique personal individual characteristics.
By acting out their role as the thoughtful caring individual they are, they can offer to Krishna, out of love, the very best of who they are as the perpetual unique person they are.
Free will is NEVER surrendered, only perfected, expanded and eternally acted upon.
The freedom to EVEN stay in Vaikuntha or enter the material creation MUST be the jivas choice in consultation with Krishna because without "free will" for the jiva soul to make their own choice, there can be no real love.
Srila Prabhupada has said not even Krishna can force you to love Him, LOVE or service is based on free will and loving exchanges of reciprocation.
"Unconditional surrender" does NOT mean erasing your individuality, identity and unique personality and become Krishna's mindless yes man/women as many immature fools believed in the 1970s.
Srila Prabhupada told his disciples, if you love me then naturally I will love you.
Our ONLY desire should be getting trained up from a very young age to get out of this temporary decaying material creation and go back home back to Godhead.
A pure devotee is not interested in helping others achieve material happiness in this mundane material creation.
A pure devotee is not interested in being rewarded with taking birth on the higher material heavenly planets or attempting to build comfortable Cities and Skyscrapers on this Earth Planet trying to find permanent satisfaction and happiness.
Such actions are useless to a pure devotee because nowhere in this material universe will we find our REAL home
Today many humanitarians, Politicians, social workers and religionists are foolishly trying to build the Kingdom of God here on this planet without God.
This is not possible in the material universes that are constantly in a state of decay, decline and in constant need of maintenance.
We should all learn we are the individual perpetual jiva soul trapped within these temporary material bodily containers we are presently trapped in.
All material endeavours for happiness will NOT solve the problems of birth, disease, old age and death.
The purpose of human life is to use this very rare human form of life in devotional service, Street Sankirtan and chanting Hare Krishna so one can eventually get out of this material world.
Srila Prabhupada - ''When the superior energy is in contact with inferior energy, it becomes an incompatible situation. But when the supreme marginal potency is in contact with the spiritual potency, Harā, it becomes the happy, normal condition of the living entity'' - (From the "Happening Album" New York City, New York, USA 1966.)
Lord Krishna with His wonderful friends is where our REAL home is as painting below shows.
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