This wonderful little boy Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of ALL causes that includes the origin of all Narayana or Vishnu forms of God.
Krishna is also the cause of the jiva souls having free will for the purpose of allowing the jiva souls to make their own choices of how to serve and love Krishna, or even reject Krishna if they choose.
Such freedom allows loving exchanges to be genuine and in a two way respectful relationship.
If Krishna was in complete control of the jiva souls "individual thoughts and actions", extinguishing their personal independent identity, and denying them their free will of having the ability to voluntarily contribute their own unique offerings of self expression, then loving exchanges based on reciprocation between two, can NEVER exist.
Love is NEVER "one", it is always based on a good exchange of loving feelings and emotions between "two" Prabhupada tells us.
Krishna gives the jiva soul's their free will so they can voluntarily choose to love Him instead of impersonally programmed to mindlessly obey.
Without free will in Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavan, the jiva soul is no better than dead stone Prabhupada has said.
It is very important to understand this Prabhupada further explained.*.
There is so much more going on in Krishna's Abode with the jiva souls than just their free will.
ReplyDeleteUltimately Krishna arranges EVERYTHING way beyond the concept of free will and what our little independence can ever understand.
Krishna’s plan for all things and living entities is inconceivable.
Actually in Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavan Krishna will NEVER let anthing hurt the jiva soul.
So now I understand why many great devotees say once one has entered Goloka Vrindavan or Vaikuntha, they never fall down.
This is because Krishna will not allow anyone or anything, including our free will, to hurt us it seems but maybe not all the time.
For example, if a jiva soul persists in demanding to be allowed to leave the spiritual world, then Krishna will not interfere
At least this is the case it seems for over 90% of the inhabitants of Goloka Vrindavan and Vaikuntha, who NEVER fall down.
But frankly I do not know for sure, does fully Krishna protect them from choosing to fall down?
So my question is, if nothing can ever hurt the jiva soul in Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavan, including one's free will, then how can the jiva soul ever fall down from Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrindavan?
It seems because in the Spiritual World, Krishna is fully in control but never in a forceful way, but rather, in a loving nurturing protective way.
All I can say, at nearly 70 years old, I am still learning.