The jiva-souls (marginal living entities) who have fallen to the material creation due to some offense like the gate keepers of Vaikuntha did for offending the four Kumaras, or who have chosen (due to free will) to enter the material creation, must "hire" their material bodily vessels from Maha-Visnu's dreams.
"The entire material creation is the dream of Maha-Visnu." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 29 text 83)
Those same "dreams" of Maha-Visnu are the billions of material universes called Brahmandas that come from Maha-Visnu's breathing, the pores on His skin, and also includes all material bodily vessels (8 million 400 thousand species of life) the jiva-soul
All the material bodily vessels in the material creation belong to Maha-Visnu and must be purchased or "hired" from Him.
Srila Prabhupada - "We are not the owner of this body, not the owner of the senses. The senses are "hired" from the Supreme Lord. This is very subtle understanding, one should know the proprietor of the senses is God." (March 1966 NY City)
The rebellious jiva-souls enter the impermanent material creation, known as the "mahat-tattva" via the dreams of Maha-Visnu.
They do this because they have chosen to reject Visnu on the Vaikuntha planets (in an all reverence relationship), or Krsna in Goloka-Vrndavana (in a intimite personal relationship of lover, friend, etc).
It is important to understand the jiva-souls voluntarily left the Kingdom of God, not because of any material cause, (that cannot exist in Vaikuntha anyway) but because of "free will," or wanting to be a god instead of serving God, and therefore gave up their association with Visnu or Krsna.
One cannot stay in the Lord's eternal abode if they have chosen not to serve Him, therefore they enter the material creation, also run by Krsna via His Maha-Visnu expansion and His demigod servants, who builds the material worlds.
This is how we entered the material creation in an attempt to seek out our own desires (dreams) within the "dreams of Maha-Visnu."
The Spiritual Sky covers all that exists, it is all that there is, without beginning or end, and includes the smaller temporary material creation that makes up 1/4 of the Spiritual Sky that is always in a state of decay, decline and in need of constant maintenance.
The other 3/4s of the Spiritual Sky is the permanent spiritual worlds of the Vaikuṇṭha planets and Krsna's central Abade of Goloka Vrindavana that never decays and is forever fresh and bigger that all the Vaikuntha planets put together (The Kingdom of God).
This temporary material creation we are in, is created by the dreams of Maha-Visnu, the fallen jiva-souls enter His material creation after choosing to enjoy separately from Krsna and enter Maha-Visnu's dream that are insync with their own desires.
We are then given material bodily vessels "hired" from Maha-Visnu's stockpile of dreams that always belong to Him and are always available for "hire." Some start as a Brahma Sastra tells us, but many do not.
What material bodily vessel the fallen jiva-souls start with within the material world, is voluntary, based on their desires to live without Krsna.
All facilities in the material creation are provided by Krsna (God) through His Maha-Visnu, Garbhodakashayi Visnu and Ksirodakasayi (Paramatma) expansions.
However, there is an easy way out of this temporary material creation in this present age called Kali-yuga, and that is by becoming a devotee in Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's great Sankirtan Movement and always chanting Hare Krsna.
By properly using one's free will in the human species, one can find a bonafide Spiritual Master who can lead one out of this mundane material dream creation and return to the only permanent reality of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrndavana beyond this decaying temporary material creation of repeated birth and death.
Choosing to come to the material creation of mundane selfish dreams was a mistake. And maya or the material energy had no influence over those choices because Maya does NOT exist in the spiritual world.
But free will ALWAYS exists there.
Srila Prabhupada - "So, unless there is a possibility of misusing our free will, there is no question of freedom." (Dialectical Spiritualism)
This quality of free will is part and parcel of the jiva-soul's marginal constitution that allows them to be an independent free thinking expansion of the Krsna. Therefore, being marginal also means having free will that is included when describing the qualities of the individual jiva-souls.
As said above, Krsna allows this freedom because without free will, voluntary loving exchanges, personal unique offerings, and a "two-way" reciprocal relationship could never exist.
Srila Prabhupada – "You have got little independence therefore you can violate. Because you are part and parcel of God you have got independence, proportionately, therefore if he likes he can return to the material atmosphere. That independence has to be accepted, little independence. We can misuse that." (Mayapur, Feb 19, 1976)
Having free will is the constitutional make up of all marginal living entities (jiva-souls) that is eternally part and parcel of their individual character and personality in the spiritual worlds. This means the jiva-souls can choose to leave the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka-Vrindavana if they choose, at anytime, it is nonsense to claim the jiva-souls can never again fall down once in Vaikuntha or Goloka-Vrindavana.
This is because free will always allows the choice to choose, and without the ability to voluntarily choose, there is no question of loving exchanges. So, the choice to even leave Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrindavana is possible because Krsna allows a two-way relationship where one can accept or reject Krsna if they choose.
Bali Mardana - "An example of free will is someone can choose Kṛṣṇa or turn away? Is that an example of free will?"
Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes, because if you accept Kṛṣṇa, then you must follow what Kṛṣṇa says. If you don't follow Kṛṣṇa, then what is the use of talking of Kṛṣṇa? If he accepts Kṛṣṇa, he must abide by the injunction of Kṛṣṇa." (Morning Walk, Jan 22, 1974, Hawaii)
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 free will."
Hayagriva Dasa - "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 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." (Talk on Rene Descartes with Hayagriva dasa)
Srila Prabhupada – "So everyone can know that independence means one can use it properly, or one can misuse it. That is independence. If you make it one-way only, that is not independence, that is force." (Los Angeles, June 23, 1975)
Genuine loving exchanges can never exist if one's relationship with God is not a "two-way" exchange of feelings, but only a domineering "one-sided" dictatorial affair with "a so called God."
Freedom or free will includes having the choice to accept or reject Krsna, otherwise free will has no meaning and is useless.
Srila Prabhupada - "Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling, then there is love. Not by force! Krsna does not want to become a lover like that." (Washington DC July 8, 1976)
Srila Prabhupāda – "Unless there are "two-persons," where is the question of love? Love means 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)
Srila Prabhupada – "This material creation is the spirit soul’s dream. Actually all existence in the material world is a dream of Maha-Visnu, as the Brahma-Samhita describes-
"This material world is created by the dreaming of Maha-Visnu. The real, factual platform is the spiritual world, but when the spirit soul wants to imitate the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is put into this dreamland of material creation." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 29 text 83)
Srila Prabhupada - "Everything happening within time, which consists of past, present and future, is merely a dream. This is the secret in understanding in all the Vedic literature." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 29 text 2b)
Srila Prabhupada - "Our contact with matter is just like dream. Actually we are not fallen. Therefore, because we are not fallen, at any moment we can revive our Krsna consciousness, we break the dream." (Tokyo Japan 1972 SB, Canto 2 Ch 9 text 1)
Srila Prabhupada - "Factually, all of material existence is only a dream. Thus there is no question of past, present or future. Persons who are addicted to karma-kanda-vicara, which means working for future happiness through fruitive activities, are also dreaming. Similarly, past happiness and present happiness are merely dreams." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 29 text 2b)*^^
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