However, we can change our spiritual bodily appearance anytime we like and live where ever we like because service to Krsna and Visnu is voluntary.
We can live on the Vaikuntha planets as a four armed form similar to the 4 armed Lord Visnu.
We can play multiple roles in Goloka Vrindavana both male and female, a cow herd boy or girl (gopi), a parent of Krsna, a relative, the number of spiritual bodily appearances are unlimited.
We can always change our appearance in both Goloka-Vrindavana and the Vaikuntha planets.
Everything is living in the spiritual worlds, we can also choose to be a blade of grass, a bird, a chair, a flag pole, a seat Radha and Krsna or Lord Visnu sits on, a cloud in the sky, etc, etc all this is almost inconceivable.
Being in the spiritual world's of Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavan does not mean you have to be a particular bodily form there forever, no, you can voluntary change your appearance anytime you like, from a bird or cow to a blade of grass, to a human form.
We can also choose to reject Krsna and go to the material creation and try to be a god
Please read the following discussion Prabhupada had with his personal servant Hari Sauri dasa.
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 a 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; then they become flower there. If I want to be a flower, I shall lie down at the lotus feet of Krsna; he becomes flower, and voluntarily he can change 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." (Srimad Bhagavatam 6.1.1-4 - Melbourne, May 20, 1975)*
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