Krishna's "love" is based on selfless service, cooperation, loving exchanges and reciprocation. Surrender is based on this personal intimate loving mood with Krishna in a two way exchange.
In actual fact, Krishna loves all individual free thinking independent jiva souls far greater than any of them can EVER love Him.
Krishna is like the Sun and all of His different expansions are like the sunrays, these sun-rays are called the sakti-tattva energy of Krishna. However, there are different categories of sakti energy.
The Sakti-tattva expansions of Krishna includes the jiva-tattva, Vishnu-tattva, Vishnu-sakti-tattva and Shiva tattva.
All are Krishna's Shakti but each are in a different category.
Vishnu-tattva and Vishnu-sakti-tattva expansions are "all-one" with Krishna, unlike the individual jiva-tattva souls and Shiva-tattva.
Shiva-tattva is in a league of his own, neither jiva-tattva, Vishnu-sakti-tattva or Vishnu-tattva
In this way "Sakti-tattva" is divided into four categories-
1 -Vishnu-tattva,
2 - Vishnu-sakti-tattvas,
3 - Shiva-tattva,
4 - jiva-tattva.
So what are the categories of Krishna's "parts and parcels"?
1 - Vishnu-tattvas (93.75% of Krishna's qualities) like His older brother Balarama and Vishnu or Narayana in each Vaikuntha Planet, or Maha Vishnu, Garbhodakashayi Visnu and Paramatma who enter the material creation.
They have 60 of Krishna's 64 attributes which is 93.75%
2 - Sakti-vishnu-tattvas are similar and have 93.75% of Krishna's qualities also have 60 of Krishna's 64 attributes, like Srimati Radharani and some leading gopis and gopas and other associates and residents of Vrindavan also, of whom many appear in Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's pastimes.
None of these can ever fall down to the material world because they ARE "direct" expansions of Krishna Himself, meaning they ARE Krishna expressed in a different way according to His many pastimes.
To be clear, both Vishnu-tattva and Vishnu-sakti-tattvas ARE Krishna Himself.
The majority of living entites are Vishnu-sakti-tattvas in the Spiritual World of Goloka-Vrindavana and the unlimited Vaikuntha planets.
3 - Shiva-tattva has 84.375% of Krishna's qualities with 55 of Krishna's 64 attributes and in a league of His own. Many scholars believe Hanuman is an incarnation of Shiva, but not all.
There are many incarnations of Shiva however, he can never be Vishnu-tattva or Vishnu-sakti-tattva, although a Vishnu-tattva form can appear in the mood of Shiva but that is NOT Lord Shiva.
Once Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu adapted the "mood" of Shiva, not that He is Shiva and not that Shiva is Him. This can also be the same for other Vishnu-tattva expansions that can exhibite the mood of Lord Shiva.
4 - jiva-tattvas that have 78.125% of Krishna's qualities which is 50 of Krishna's 64 attributes. The jiva tattva are the "marginal living entities".
The individual jiva-tattvas or marginal living entities are NOT directly krishna like the above 2 categories of Vishnu-tattva and Vishnu-sakti-tattva are, and Lord Shiva is NOT Vishnu-tattva, Vishnu-sakti-tattva or jiva-tattva.
The jiva-tattvas or marginal living entities, are independent free thinking thinking jiva-souls who have their own free will and individual sense of self in the Spiritual Planets (not fully in the material creation though)
The jiva souls in their full expression and potential in both Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavana, have their own sense of self, personality, individuality and character eternally who can choose for themselves how to serve Krishna or even not serve Him if they want.
It is important to understand in these often ignorant pioneering years of Lord Caitanya's Movement, the marginal living entities have their own "sense of individual self" that is independent and separate from Krishna's personality, therefore, they ARE their own person even though fully dependent on Krishna's energies in the Spiritual worlds.
In this way, all jiva-tattva souls have "free will" eternally as part of their marginal make up that allows them to have the ability to choose for themselves in both Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavan as part of their marginal constitution.
This means, as separate thinking living entities, they can choose to be with Krishna or Vishnu, or reject the Lord and enter the material creation if they so desire.
Such freedom ONLY fully exists in Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana.
Such full freedom does NOT exist in the material creation, as soon as the jiva-tattva soul takes a material bodily vessel and takes birth in the material creation, the jiva soul becomes trapped under the influence of material nature and controlled by basic sensual instincts of eating, sleeping, mating and defending.
And because time is divided into past, present and future, the reaction to each material body is birth, youth, middle age, old age and death.
Material time means the material creation is in a constant progression of decomposition and decay, NOTHING lasts in the material creation, everything eventually fades away into oblivion (decomposes)
Eventually in the material creation, the trapped jiva souls in a material bodily container, becomes frustrated with the temporary nature of material life, they therefore can choose to escape the material creation and seek to enter the impersonal inactive Brahmajyoti effulgence and hover their in a dormant state for billions of years if they want.
To a Vaishnava this act is Spiritual suicide because the jiva soul is meant to be ALWAYS active, which is the constitutional nature of all marginal living entities (jiva soul).
However, merging into the impersonal Brahmajyoti as an individual unit is only temporary, even if one believes its for eternity, eventually ALL jiva souls fall down from the impersonal inactive Brahmajyoti or Brahman effulgence.
This is because it is NOT permanent because as said above, the nature of the soul is to be active.
So all jiva-souls who enter the impersonal Brahmajyoti eventually fall from the there and again take birth in lower species of material life and begin their evolution up to the human species of like.
They progress within nature, and move through the cycle of birth and death, back to the human species where again they can have the opportunity to realize "their full potential" as a spiritual individual personal living being under the guidance of a bonafide Spiritual Master like Srila Prabhupada.
Fortunately for most jiva souls or marginal living entities, over 90%, according to Srila Prabhupada, NEVER make that foolish choice and enter the mundane decaying material creation.
From the Book "Teachings of Lord Caitanya"
Srila Prabhupada - "There are also forms of Kṛṣṇa that are a little different from His original form, and these are called tad-ekātma-rūpa forms. These may be further divided into the vilāsa and svāṁśa forms, which in turn have many different features and can be divided into prābhava and vaibhava forms.
As far as the vilāsa forms are concerned, there are innumerable prābhava-vilāsas, headed by Kṛṣṇa's expansions as -
Vāsudeva,
Saṅkarṣaṇa,
Pradyumna,
Aniruddha.
Sometimes the Lord thinks of Himself as a cowherd boy, and sometimes He thinks of Himself as Vasudeva's son, a kṣatriya prince, and this "thinking" of Kṛṣṇa is called His "pastimes." Actually, He is in the same form in His vaibhava-prakāśa and prābhava-vilāsa, but He appears differently as Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma". (Teachings of Lord Caitanya)
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