Srila Prabhupada explains below that fall down from the Spiritual Planets is very rare and most jiva-souls "choose" to NEVER fall down.

Srila Prabhupada explains fall down from the Spiritual Planets is very, very rare and most jiva-souls NEVER fall down.

The following is a discussion with Srila Prabhupada where he explains that falling down into the material creation is very rare.

Most jiva-souls "choose" to NEVER fall down from the Spiritual Worlds of Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavana and enter the mundane decaying material universes.

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, majority, 90%, they are always good, they never fall down."

Dr. John Mize – “So we’re among the 10%."

Srila Prabhupada – “Yes. Or less than that. In the material, whole material world all the living entities they are. Just like in the prison house, there is some population, but they are not majority. The majority of the population, they are outside the prison house. Similarly, majority of living being, part and parcel of God, they are in the spiritual world. Only a few fall down."

Dr. John Mize – “Does Krsna know ahead of time that a soul is going to be foolish and fall?”

Srila Prabhupada – “Krsna? Yes, Krsna may know because He is omniscient."

Dr. John Mize – “Are more souls falling all the time?”

Srila Prabhupada – “Not all the time. But there is the tendency of fall down, not for all, but because there is independenc. Everyone is not liking to misuse their independence. The same example: Just like a government constructing a city and constructs also prison house because the government knows that somebody will be criminal. So their shelter must be also constructed. It is very easy to understand. Not that cent percent population will be criminal, but government knows that some of them will be. Otherwise why they construct prison house also? One may say, “Where is the criminal? You are constructing” Government knows, there will be criminal. So if the ordinary government can know, why God cannot know? Because there is tendency."

Dr. John Mize – “The origin of that tendency (to fall from Goloka) is?”

Srila Prabhupada – “Yes.”

Dr. John Mize – “From where does that tendency come?”

Srila Prabhupada – “So everyone can know that independence means one can use it properly or one can misuse it. That is independence, that tendency is always there. If you make it one way only, that you cannot fall down, that is not independence. That is force. Therefore Krsna says, yathecchasi tathä kuru. “Now you do whatever you like.” (Bhagavad Gita As It Is. lecture, Mayapur, June 20, 1973)