Free will in the spiritual world always exists in its full potential, unlike the temporary decaying material world.

The jiva-souls there in the spiritual world voluntarily choose how they want to serve Krsna with personal contributions and reciprocal exchanges, or they can even reject Krsna if they decide, and enter the temporary material world. 

Having free will means there is ALWAYS a choice otherwise there is no meaning to free will.

Free will allows the individual jiva-souls in Goloka-Vrindavana and the Vaikuntha planets, to express themselves as the independent PERSON they are eternally serving the Lord, or reject Him. Otherwise, without these choices one is no better than dead stone and free will and free expression has no meaning.

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 there is free will." (Discussion with Srila Prabhupada on Philosoph Rene Descartes)

Bali Mardana - "An example of free will is someone can choose Kṛṣṇa or turn away? Is that an example of free will?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes, because if you accept Kṛṣṇa, then you must follow what Kṛṣṇa says. If you don't follow Kṛṣṇa, then what is the use of talking of Kṛṣṇa? If he accepts Kṛṣṇa, he must abide by the injunction of Kṛṣṇa." (Morning Walk, Jan 22, 1974, Hawaii)

Srila Prabhupada - "As soon as we try, "Oh, this material world is very nice, Yes," Kṛṣṇa says, "yes, you go. Otherwise what is the meaning of free will? Every living entity has got a little free will. And Kṛṣṇa is so kind, He gives him opportunity, "All right, you enjoy like this." It is free will." (Morning Walk At Cheviot Hills Golf Course, May 13, 1973, Los Angeles)

Devotee – "In Srimad Bhagavatam, it says that Krsna did not want us to come to this material world. If Krsna did not want us to come, why are we here?” Why doesn’t He save me from thinking like that?"

Srila Prabhupada - "That means you lose your independence, your free will. That is force, in Bengali it is said, If you catch one girl or boy, you love me, you love me, you love me, is that love? You love me, otherwise I will kill you! Is that love? So Krsna does not want to become a lover like that, on the point of revolver. You love me, otherwise I shall kill you!! That is not love; that is threatening. Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling, then there is love. Not by force; that is rape. Why one is called lover, another is called rape?" (July 8, 1976 in Washington, D.C)

Free will is something never acquired, nor ever given up or surrendered in the spiritual world because "free will" is eternally part and parcel of the jiva-souls (marginal living entities) natural constitution and therefore ALWAYS exists without beginning or end in the spiritual planets.

However, free will in its full potential is ONLY fully experienced in Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavana, which is the jiva-souls original perpetual home.

Only in the material creation is "free will" almost completely covered over restricted and suppressed by material nature and karma (the results of one's actions, good and bad while in a human bodily vessel).

Losing one's free will (only covered over and restricted by material nature and never really lost) is only experienced if the jiva-souls foolishly chooses to enter the darkness of the material creation and be confined to temporary material bodily containers or vessels.

Most of the 8 million 400 thousand species of life (bodies) have no free will and are controlled by the instincts of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. 

Only in the 400 thousand species of human life does a partial and greatly restricted expression of free will.

Free will in its full potential only fully exists in Goloka-Vrindavana and on the Vaikuntha planets.

Therefore, the jiva-soul's full spiritual potential of being a free individual person in the spiritual world serving Krsna, is mostly lost (forgotten) if they choose to enter the material creation.

All jiva-souls ETERNALLY have free will as part of their perpetual constitutional make up in the spiritual worlds, but is forgotten (but not ever lost) if they choose to enter the temporary decaying material creation and possess a material bodily vessel.

Therefore, in the material creation, the jiva-souls original expression of freedom (free will) becomes covered over with both instinct and karmic reactions, the fruits of their own good and bad deeds.

There real spiritual identity is suppressed and forgotten in the material world and must be AGAIN be revived so the jiva-souls are again reinstated to their original spiritual position in Goloka-Vrindavana or on the Vaikuṇṭha planets in the spiritual world.

This revival is only possible by the process of Krsna Consciousness under the guidance of a bonafide spiritual Master or teacher (bonafide Guru).

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, unless there is a possibility of misusing our free will, there is no question of freedom." (Dialectical Spiritualism, Critique of Descartes)

The jiva-souls in Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavana are forever expanding their expression of individuality with voluntary personal offerings based on free will and selfless loving reciprocation and exchanges with Krsna.

One's relationship with Krsna is NEVER a one-sided master/slave mindless none contributing relationship as described by Srila Prabhupada here.

Srila Prabhupada - "Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling, then there is love. Not by force, no, Krsna does not want to become a lover like that, ‘You love me, otherwise I shall kill you!" (Washington DC July 8, 1976)

Real love or bhakti (loving selfless service) is reciprocal, as said above, it is NEVER a one-way street where surrender to Krsna takes away one's sense of unique independent self, individuality and personal contributions (offerings)

This is important to understand because each individual jiva-soul has their own independent identity, voluntary expression of self, and a unique personality and characteristics separate from Krsna's Personality, that THEY only have.

In the material world after its destruction, the jiva-souls rest dormant in the Body of Maha-Visnu until the next creation Brahmanda universes. 

Maha-Visnu does NOT create the jiva-souls because they are already eternal. Therefore body of Maha-Visnu or the Impersonal Brahmajyoti are NOT the jiva-souls origin. 

Their permanent eternal home is Goloka-Vrindavana or the Vaikuntha planets, but sadly a small percentage choose to enter the material world because of free will.

Srila Prabhupada - "The spirit soul is NOT formless; it has got form, the spirit soul always has form and is expressed as hands, legs, heads, everything. But with our material eyes at the present, our gross eyes, we cannot see these facts; therefore we foolishly believe the jiva-souls have no form." (Lecture on BG 2.14 - Mexico, Feb 14, 1975)

Girl devotee - "What is the form of the spiritual body. If the spirit soul is non-material, what is the form?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "There is form, just like this material body is compared with the dress. Now, just like in your present material form you have got hand; therefore your coat has got hand. You have got legs; therefore your pant has got legs. Therefore it is to be assumed that the spirit soul always has got form, and is expressed as hands, legs, heads, everything. The spirit soul is not formless; it has got form. But with our material eyes at the present, gross eyes, we cannot find it; therefore we say and foolishly believe it has no form." (Lecture BG 2.14, Mexico, Feb 14, 1975)

The full potential and original feature of ALL marginal living entities (jiva-souls) is a two-arm form like Krsna's Body.

Devotee – "Is the original body of the spirit soul a human form?" 

Srila Prabhupada – "Yes, human form, God is also human form. "Man is made after the shape of God." I think there is in the Bible. Is it not? So God is also like human form. Here you see Krsna, two hands, two legs."

Hari-sauri – "How do we understand, then, that there are peacocks and flowers and trees in the spiritual world? Are these not eternal forms?"

Srila Prabhupada – "[describing material form first]: Yes, they are more covered. Just like if you cover your body with blanket, the hands and legs are invisible. But you are not the blanket. So the trees and plants, they are more covered. They are not in full manifestation. The human form is the full manifestation of the soul."

Hari-sauri - "They are covered in the spiritual world?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Not in the spiritual world. There that is voluntary. Some devotee wants to serve Krsna as flower; they become flower there. If I want to be a flower I shall lie down at the lotus feet of Krsna, he becomes flower, voluntarily, and he can change his, from flower to human body. That is spiritual life. There is no restriction. If some devotee wants to serve Krsna as cow, he serves Krsna as cow, as calf, as flower, as plant, as water, as ground, field, or as father, as mother, as friend, as beloved, anything. It is inconceivable, yet a fact." (SB Canto 6 Ch 1 text 1-4 - Melb, Australia May 20, 1975)

In the spiritual world the choice of the jiva-soul's relationship with Krsna is always voluntary, from a blade of grass to a tree, a cow or gopi or a 4 armed form on the Vaikuntha planets serving Narayana (Visnu).

Srila Prabhupada - "Your question about one's relationship with Lord Krsna on Krsnaloka, does he ever fall down? The jiva-souls are endowed with minute independence as part of their nature and this minute independence may be utilized rightly or wrongly at anytime, so there is always a chance of falling down by misuse of one’s independence." (Letter to Jagadisa dasa, 4/25/1970)

Srila Prabhupada - "In the broader sense, everyone comes from Krsnaloka (Goloka-Vrindavana). When one forgets Krsna, he is conditioned (nitya-baddha), when one remembers Krsna he is liberated (nitya-siddha)." (Letter to Mukunda, June 10, 1969)

The jiva-souls who enter the impersonal brahmajyoti, the Body of Maha-Visnu or tatastha-sakti in a dormant state, have fallen to that condition Srila Prabhupada explains here-

Srila Prabhupada - "Existence in the impersonal brahman is also within the category of non-Krsna consciousness. Those who are in the brahman effulgence are also in the fallen condition, so there is no question of falling down from a fallen condition. When fall takes place, it means falling down from the non-fallen condition. The non-fallen condition is Krsna consciousness." (Letter to Revatinandana, Los Angeles 13 June, 1970)

Srila Prabhupada – "There are 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 dasa, 7/9/1970)

Srila Prabhupada – “The jiva-souls are Krsna's marginal energy. Marginal energy means we can live either in this external energy or in the internal energy, in between. So at the present moment we are living in the external energy. But this external energy is also Kṛṣṇa's energies, God's energy. It is not different from Him. But the external energy means we are captivated by the external energy. But the external energy is not permanent. The internal energy is permanent. The spiritual world is permanent, and the jiva-souls are also permanent as Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 2 text 20 (1983 edition).” (Lecture on BG 9.4 -Melb, Australia April 23, 1976)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 2 text 20 explains the jiva-souls have existed for “infinity” which means, just like Krsna, they are beginning less and endless, and were NEVER created-

Bhagavad Gita - “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 Chapter 2 text 12 also confirms the jiva-souls were NEVER created. 

This is because they have no origin and have existed for infinity like Krsna has, as Krsna explains-

Bhagavad Gita - “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 2.12)

Krsna's relationship with the jiva-souls is always a "two-sided" affair or a relationship of loving exchanges and reciprocation.

Krsna and His many equal expansions (Visnu-tattva) do not dominate the jiva-souls by forcing them into submission and service, such service must be voluntary based on the jiva-souls free will. 

Any so called God who demands one surrender their free will and allow God to flow through them controlling their every thought and action is bogus and should be immediately rejected.

The jiva-souls also have a choice too, of how they want to serve the Lord, Prabhupada explains.

Srila Prabhupada - "In the spiritual world, service there is always voluntary and never force. Some devotee wants to serve Krsna as flower; 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 can change from flower to human body if one desires. That is spiritual life. There is no restriction. If some devotee wants to serve Krsna as cow, he serves Krsna as cow, as calf, as flower, as plant, as water, as ground, field, or as father, as mother, as friend, as beloved, anything. It is inconceivable, yet a fact." (SB Canto 6.1.1-4 - Melb, May 20, 1975)

The jiva-souls are eternally Krsna's part and parcels dependent on the Lord but simultaneously independent from Him too. 

Each individual "marginal living entity" is an independent unique "person" eternally.

Srila Prabhupada - "The "immediate" expansions of the Lord are called svāṁśa or "personal direct" expansions (known as Visnu-tattva, where the Lord Himself plays a different role in His own pastimes). The "separated" expansions of the Krsna are called vibhinnāṁśa (marginal living entities or jiva-souls endowed with independence and free will) like us." (BG, 10.37 Purport)

Srila Prabhupada - "We (the jiva-souls) are marginal energy (jiva-souls) Marginal means sometimes internal, sometimes external. When we are under the internal energy, that is our normal life, and when we are under the external energy, that is our abnormal life. Therefore, we are called marginal energy (jiva-souls); we can be either this way or that way. But being qualitatively one with the purusa, our tendency is to remain in the internal energy. Being in the external energy is our artificial attempt." (Letter to Lilavati, Allston, Mass 25 April, 1969)

Srila Prabhupada - "You are also energy; you are marginal energy (jiva-soul) Marginal energy means you (the jiva-souls) may be under the control of the spiritual energy or you may be under the control of material energy—your marginal position. But when you are under the control of the material energy, that is your precarious condition, struggle for existence. And when you are under spiritual energy, that is your life of freedom." (Intro BG As It Is, Los Angeles, Nov 23, 1968)

As said above, there is no such thing that a new jiva-soul is created because they have ALWAYS existed originally in Goloka-Vrindavana and Vaikuntha. 

Srila Prabhupada - "Even in the Vaikuntha you can desire not to serve Krsna if you want and enter the temporary decaying  material world."

Vipina Purandara - "Why doesn’t Krsna protect us from that desire?"

Srila Prabhupada - "He is protecting. Krsna says, "You rascal, don’t desire like that, surrender unto Me." But you are rascal; you do not do this."

Vipina Purandara - "Why doesn’t He save me from thinking like that?''

Srila Prabhupada - "That means you lose your independence. That is force, in Bengali it is said, if you catch one girl or boy and demand, ‘You love me, you love me, you love me.’ Is it love? You love me, otherwise I will kill you! Is that love? So Krsna does not want to become a lover like that." (July 8, 1976 in Washington, D.C.)

Srila Prabhupada - "Because you are Son of God you have got independence, full independence, therefore you have acquired the quality of your father. "So God does not interfere with your independence." (Conversation Melb, Australia June 25, 1974)

Srila Prabhupada -  "Unless there is the choice to misuse free will, then there is no question of 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 there is free will."

Hayagriva - "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." (Philosophy Discussions with Srila Prabhupada – Rene Descartes 1976)

For love to truly exist with the jiva-souls, there MUST be "free will" in Goloka-Vrindavana and in the Vaikuntha planets ALWAYS 

It is because of free will, that returning back home back to Godhead may not necessarily be permanent Prabhupada explains here.

Keep in mind the jiva-souls are eternal, they were NEVER created nor will they ever cease to be.

Therefore, remaining in Goloka-Vrindavana for infinity is not possible for all jiva-souls although most, over 90%, do choose to never fall down.

Syamasundara - "But can we predict that the process (returning back home back to Godhead) will be permanent? Can we predict that? Just like many prisoners leave the prison, but some come back."

Srila Prabhupada - "No, there is no permanent effect there because we have got little independence (free will). There is nothing permanent because you can misuse your independence at any time."

Syamasundara - "And some come back?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, otherwise there is no meaning of independence. Independence means you can do this, you can do that. "All right. Whatever you like."

Devotee - "Then he is so many times falling down, again and again, so will he eventually permanently come back?"

Srila Prabhupada - "When a man is released from the prison house, that does not mean permanently because he can come back again if he wants, however, the general law is NOT to come back, but if he likes, he can come back, otherwise what is the meaning of independence? Just like one becomes free from the prison house, naturally he should not go there again." (Discussions with Syamasundara - Henri Bergson)

We must never forget that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, if we properly understand this, then we will understand the following discussion-

Swedish man - "Is there free will?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, just like you are sitting here. If you don’t like, you can go away. That’s your free will. There is free will, we are part and parcel of God, therefore we have got minute quantity of freedom." (Temple lecture Stockholm Sweden 1974)

Srila Prabhupada - "Every individual soul is awarded a portion of independence because each is part and parcel of God. Thus he has the quality of independence, but in minute quantity. That is his individuality." 

Syamasundara dasa - "Is Krsna within each atom as an individual entity different from every other entity?

Srila Prabhupada - ''Yes, Krsna is there, He is individual. There are varieties of atoms, and sometimes they are combined together."

Syamasundara dasa - "How is each Krsna different? How is it He is an individual in each of the atoms?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Why is He not an individual? Krsna is always an individual. He is always a person, the Supreme Person, and He can expand Himself innumerably."

Syamasundara dasa - "And is Paramatma a person?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, every expansion is a person. We are all atomic expansions of Krsna, and we are all individual persons. Paramatma is another expansion, but that is a different kind of expansion."

Syamasundara dasa - "Is the jivatma, the individual soul, also a person?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, if he were not a person, then how would you account for the differences? We are all different persons. You may agree with my opinion or not, but in any case you are an individual. Krsna is also an individual. Nityo nityanam. There are innumerable individual souls, but He is the supreme individual person." 

Syamasundara dasa - "So even within material atoms, there is a spiritual life, a spiritual force?"

Srila Prabhupada - '"Yes, force means spiritual force."

Syamasundara dasa - "But even within the dead body there are forces. There is the force of decomposition."

Srila Prabhupada - "Krsna is within the atom, and the body is a combination of so many atoms; therefore the force for creating other living entities is also there even in the process of decomposition. When the individual soul's force is stopped within a particular body, we call that body a dead body. Still, Krsna's force is there because the body is a combination of atoms. The ultimate desire is of Krsna. If you take it in that way, Krsna is within every atom, and therefore Krsna wants whatever is to be.  Therefore He wills that these two elements become one, and therefore the molecules combine to create water, or whatever. Thus there is a creation, and again there is another creation, and so on. In any case, the ultimate brain governing all creation is Krsna."

Syamasundara dasa - "Does the individual soul have a little independence to choose?"

Srila Prabhupada - "No (not without the sanction of Krsna, unless Krsna sanctions, we cannot do ANYTHING) Bhagavad-Gita As It Is states that when the individual soul wants to act, Krsna gives the orders. Man proposes, and God disposes."

Syamasundara dasa - "So we have no free will?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Not without the sanction of Krsna. Without Him, we cannot do anything. Therefore He is the ultimate cause."

Syamasundara dasa - "But I thought you have been saying that we have a little independence."

Srila Prabhupada - "We have the independence in the sense that we may deny or affirm, but unless Krsna sanctions, we cannot do anything." (Dialectical Spiritualism: A Vedic View of Western Philosophy)

Paramahaṁsa - "So we can come to the spiritual world and return?"

Prabhupāda - "Yes."

Paramahaṁsa - "Fall down?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, as soon as we try, "Oh, this material world is very nice, Yes, Kṛṣṇa says, yes, you go. Otherwise what is the meaning of free will? Every living entity has got a little free will. And Kṛṣṇa is so kind, He gives him opportunity, "All right, you enjoy like this." It is free will." (Morning Walk At Cheviot Hills Golf Course, May 13, 1973, Los Angeles)

Bali Mardana - "An example of free will is someone can choose Kṛṣṇa or turn away? Is that example of free will?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes, because if you accept Kṛṣṇa, then you must follow what Kṛṣṇa says. If you don't follow Kṛṣṇa, then what is the use of talking of Kṛṣṇa? Kṛṣṇa says, satataṁ kīrtayanto mām: (BG 9.14) "Always chanting about Me." That is mahātmā. Satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ (BG 9.14). Mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ: (BG 9.13) "Mahātmā, those who are devotee, they are not under these material influence. If he accepts Kṛṣṇa, he must abide by the injunction of Kṛṣṇa." (Morning Walk, Jan 22, 1974, Hawaii)

The jiva-souls can fully express their free will only in the spiritual world, but sadly some jiva-souls miss use their free will and choose to leave Goloka-Vrindavana and the Vaikuntha planets however, Prabhupada explains, it is only a very small minority who foolishly make that choice, less than 10%.

Dr. John Mize – "Did all the souls that were in the spiritual sky fall out of the spiritual sky at once or at different times, or are there any souls that are always good, they’re not foolish, they don’t fall down?"

Srila Prabhupada – "No, there are majority, 90%, they are always good. They never fall down." (Los Angeles, June 23, 1975)

Let's clear one thing up, falling into the material world has absolutely nothing to do with maya or the material energy because maya does not and can not exist in Vaikuntha.

The jiva-souls do not even know Maya or the material energy exists, however, they do have "free will and the ability to choose" and are aware that this quality is “eternally” part and parcel of the jiva-soul’s makeup and exists in Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana.

We do not lose our independence and sense of individual identity once we enter Vaikuntha, we are eternally independent living entities even in Vaikuntha.

To fall from Vaikuntha or Goloka-Vrindavana, the rebellious jiva-soul "choose" to developed "independent" desires (not material because they do not exist in the spiritual world) to no longer serve Krsna but instead put themselves in the centre. 

Those "independent desires" putting oneself in the centre instead of Kṛṣṇa, was the cause that forced the jiva-soul to leave the spiritual world and not Maya or anything material.

It is important to understand such desires of fame, followers and opulance, that all exist in the spiritual world, are NOT material desires there because nothing material (Maya) can exists in Goloka Vrindavana and Vaikuntha Vaikuntha. 

It is those "separate" desires that send the jiva-soul out of the spiritual world and into the material world, where they are forfilled but now on the material level. 

Try and understand. 

The fallen jiva-soul has to then "hire" a suitable material bodily vessel off Maha-Visnu that allows them to enter the material creation and begin experiencing an active existence based on the rebellious desires they had in the spiritual world.

The human form of life is extremely very rare, most visitors from Vaikuntha to the material world end up in the lower species of life (body) 

According to Vedic scripture there are 8 million 400 thousand species of life and only 400 thousand are human and demigod species.

So the human form is rare let's not misuse it and return back home back to Godhead..^^^..