Important quotes from Srila Prabhupada.

Devotee – "When we are in the spiritual sky and serving Krsna, we have a perfect relationship with Krsna, what causes us to fall down in the material world, because we’re already serving Krsna? I can’t understand why we should have an impure desire when we are already serving Krsna."

Srila Prabhupada – "Because you have got little freedom, it is one's desires, unless there is a chance of doing wrong or right, there is no question of free will. Where is free will if I can act only one-sided? That means I have no free will. Because we can act wrongly that means we have free will." (Discussions Rene Descartes, Melbourne, Australia June 25, 1974)

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

Srila Prabhupada - ''As soon as we try, "Oh, this material world is very nice," "Yes," Kṛṣṇa says, "yes, you can 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 Cheviot Hills May 13, 1973, Los Angeles)

Srila Prabhupada - ''We have got the propensity to love. Love means somebody else. Love can not be one or love cannot be executed only by one; there must be another one, there must be two, I love somebody; somebody loves me, there must be lover, there must be beloved, and the transaction, then love''. (Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 Chapter 2 text 6, Delhi, November 12, 1973)

Srila Prabhupada - ''Love means you take and you also give. Suppose if you love somebody and you simply take from them and don't give. Oh, do you think it is very good? No. It is not good. That is not love. That is exploitation. If I go on simply taking from you, and if I don't offer you something in return, that is simply exploitation."(Bhagavad Gita Chapter 9 text 2-5, New York, November 23, 1966)

Srila Prabhupada - ''The impersonalist philosophy is oneness. So how can there be love with just one? Is it possible? Have you got any such experience? Love means one? No. Love means two. There must be two, the lover and the beloved. Kṛṣṇa is already lover. He's so lover of you that He's trying to get you back. That is Kṛṣṇa's attempt. "Please, my dear boy or my dear friend, my dear servant." (Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 2 Chapter 1, text 3, Paris, June 12, 1974)

Srila Prabhupada - "Krsna does not want to become a lover by force, from the point of revolver. ‘You love me; otherwise, I shall kill you!’ That is not love; that is threatening. Love is a reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling. Then there is love. Not by force; no, that is rape. Why is one called lover another called rape?” (July 8, 1976 in Washington, D.C.)

Srila Prabhupada - "Free will" means that you can act wrongly. That is "free will." Unless there is a 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 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." (Discussions with Rene Descartes)

Srila Prabhupada - "If you have no ''free will, "then you are a stone. The stone has no "free will." Do 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." (August 5, 1976, New Mayapur France)

Srila Prabhupada – "Krsna never forces you to love Him, that must be voluntary."(Melbourne June 25, 1974)

Srila Prabhupada - "In the spiritual world service is voluntary. Some devotees want to serve Krsna as flower; so they become flower there if they want to be a flower and lie down at the lotus feet of Krsna, then he becomes flower, voluntarily, and he can change from flower to human body also. 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." (Srimad Bhagavatam 6.1.1-4 - Melbourne, May 20, 1975).^**.