However, the paradox here is the individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) always have their independence too, this means they eternally have the "free will" to accept Kṛṣṇa, or reject Krsna if they choose that Krsna allows for the purpose of creating independent voluntary contributions from His devotees in a two-way exchange of loving reciprocation.
Srila Prabhupada - "Free will means that you can act wrongly, that is free will. Unless there is 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 we have free will." (Philosophy Discussions with Rene Descartes)
Srila Prabhupada – "So everyone can know that independence (free will) means one can use it properly, or one can misuse it. That is independence. If you make it one way only, that you cannot fall down, that is not having independence, that is force." (Mayapur, June 20, 1973)
Having free will is the eternal constitutional make up of every marginal living entity (individual jiva-soul), and is the foundation for the individual jiva-soul's voluntary relationship with Krsna.
Srila Prabhupāda – "Love means a relationship between "two persons," then there is exchange, then there is love. I must deal with you open-hearted, you must deal with me open-hearted, then there is love. So if you want to love Kṛṣṇa, God, then these things must be there." (Aug 9, 1976, Tehran)
The individual jiva-soul have their own unique distinctive personality and character separate from Krsna's Personality. This means within Krsna's absolute control of all that there is, He includes this "freedom of expression" the individual jiva-souls have for the purpose of allowing an open two-sided relationship where the individual jiva-souls can serve Krsna voluntarily, or reject Him if they choose.
Krsna wants to be surrounded by those who genuinely choose to voluntarily serve (love) Him, and not forced (bullied) to serve that denies personal voluntary contributions and unique personal offering.
No! God is not interested in those who impersonally (mindlessly) surrender to Him, to only be told what think and do, devoid of personal choices and voluntary contributions.
Even though Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, and everything is owned by Him, He allows free will to exist with His individual jiva-souls (devotees) for the purpose of receiving genuine loving independent affection, reciprocation and exchanges from His dear devotees that they choose to independently offer.
Such freedom must exist for the individual jiva-souls so they can express their unique distinctive independent nature and choosing for themselves, how they want to voluntarily serve Krsna, or even not serve Him if they choose. Without such freedom, which includes even rejecting Krsna if they want, there can never be any real freedom or genuine loving exchanges.
If Krsna denied the individual jiva-souls their free will, then their existence has no meaning at all and would be no better than dead lifeless stone.
Srila Prabhupada - "If you have no free will, then you are a stone. The stone has no free will. You want to be stone? Then you must have free will!" (Aug 5, 1976, New Mayapur France)
Free will only has meaning when the individual jiva-souls can express themselves in a "two-sided" affair with Krsna. In other words, loving reciprocation is only possible in a "two-way" exchange between Kṛṣṇa and His devotees with each contributing to the relationship's expansion of nectarine mellows.
The word's "reciprocation" and loving exchanges only has meaning when there are two involved, not one!
Free will only has meaning when the individual jiva-souls can express themselves in an open "two-sided" affair with Krsna without being manipulated in any way to ony do what Kṛṣṇa wants - there is always a choice!
The fact is, all devotional service on the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana are eternally voluntary.
In the spiritual worlds of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, there is no such thing as "forced surrendering" to Visnu or Krsna because impersonalism does not exist there. Being able to reject Krsna proves that "free will" does truly exist.
Even though Krsna allows this freedom for His amusement to see what happens when the jiva-souls are given freedom, He always remains the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes.
Just like the Sun-disc and the sun-rays cannot exist separately from each other, similarly Krsna is never separated from His variety of living entities known as-
1 - Viṣṇu tattva [93.75% of Krsna's qualities], Unlimited direct expansions of Kṛṣṇa each with their own unique name.
2 - Visnu-"sakti"-tattva [Also has 93.75% of Krsna's qualities] Is unlimited expansions of Srimati Radharani, who are all Krsna's internal spiritual potency. Although Srimati Radharani Herself is non-different than Kṛṣṇa because He created Her by dividing Himself into two.
3 - Siva-tattva [85.938% of Krsna's qualities] A mysterious expansion of Krsna, who has many expansions and associates. Siva prefers to be in the material world surrounded by his unlimited disciples. He is considered Krsna's greatest devotee.
4 - Jiva-tattva [78.125% of Krsna's qualities] The separated eternal individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) are sometimes under the protection of the spiritual world, or sometimes fallen to the material world, due to their desires and free will.
Each individual jiva-soul (marginal living entity) is a unique distinctive one of a kind independent individual with their own distinctive personality separate from Krsna's Personality, and different from all the other individual jiva-souls.
Loving devotional service to Krsna is always based on a two-way voluntary exchange of personal feelings between Kṛṣṇa and His devotees, manifesting as selfless acts of devotion shared between Kṛṣṇa and His devotees.
The individual jiva-souls voluntarily contribute their own unique expressions (offerings) to Him as their way of surrendering to Krsna's will. This voluntary surrender does not deny the free will each individual jiva-soul eternally expresses.
On the other hand, actions expressed in a one-way domineering forceful mood from a "so called God" that denies personal voluntary contributions expressed in an open "two-way" exchange of feelings, only leaves the individual jiva-souls no better off than dead useless stone explained by Srila Prabhupada.
Srila Prabhupada - "Love means you take and you give also, suppose if you love somebody and you simply take from him, but you 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 anything, that is simply exploitation." (Lecture BG, Ch 9 text 2-5, New York City, Nov 23, 1966)
Srila Prabhupada - "We have got the propensity to love. Love means somebody else. Love cannot be one or love cannot be executed by only one, there must be two. I love somebody; somebody loves me, there must be lover, there must be beloved, and the transaction, then love." (SB, Canto 1 Ch 2 text 6, Delhi, Nov 12, 1973)
Srila Prabhupada - "The impersonalist philosophy is oneness, so how there be love with just one? Is it possible? Have you got any such experience that love means one? No, love means two, there must be two, the lover and the beloved. Kṛṣṇa is already lover. He loves you so much that He's trying to get you back. That is Kṛṣṇa's attempt. "Please, My dear boy, or My dear friend, My dear servant." (SB, Canto 2 Ch 1 text 3, Paris, June 12, 1974)
Srila Prabhupada – "You have got little independence (free will) therefore you can violate. Because you are part and parcel of God you have got independence, proportionately, that independence has to be accepted, little independence, we can misuse that." (Mayapur, Feb 19, 1976)
Srila Prabhupada - "So, unless there is a possibility of misusing our free will, there is no question of freedom." (Dialectical Spiritualism, Critique of Descartes).<^>.
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