Monday, April 1, 2024

It is VERY important we understand that the individual eternal jiva-souls (marginal living entities) are eternal "PERSONS" as a spiritual bodily form who have their own unique independent sense of self, individuality and unique personality different from Krsna's Personality.

Yet paradoxically always dependent on Krsna who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of ALL causes and not a blade of grass can move without His sanction.

The jiva-souls (marginal living entities) are "PERSONS" who are beginningless and endless with their own unique individual "feelings of self-expression," who ALWAYS eternally express that free will in both the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (The Kingdom of God) with Krsna and Visnu with voluntary contributions or service.

LOVING service to Krsna is NOT a "one-sided" affiliate of total supremacy or preeminence, it is expressed in a "two-way" exchange of reciprocal character building emotions. 

Genuine loving relations and service are based on "free will" which means loving voluntary exhanges are only possible when TWO are involved in a "two-way" exchange, and NEVER in a "one-sided" dominating forceful impersonal affair!

Free will only has meaning when the individual jiva-souls can express themselves in a "two-sided" relationship with Krsna that never denies the jiva-soul's voluntary contributions.

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)

In other words, loving reciprocation and exchanges are ONLY possible between "two," with each contributing to the relationship, expanding the the variety of nectarine mellows and different ways of self-expression.

The words "reciprocation" and "free will" only have meaning when there are "TWO involved," NOT one!

"ONE" means impersonalism (almost dead) and personalism (loving exchanges) is only possible when "TWO" are participating. 

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)

"Free will" is eternally the constitutional make up of EVERY individual "marginal living entity" (jiva-soul) and the foundation in ALL relationship with Krsna.

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, Nov 23, 1966)

Srila Prabhupada - "Love means two, there MUST be two, the lover and the beloved." (Lecture BG, Ch 9 text 2-5, New York, Nov 23, 1966)

On the Vaikuntha planets and on Goloka Vrindavana, personal voluntary expressions of loving exchanges are always encouraged by Krsna in His relationship with the individual jiva-souls that adds flavour, variety and mystery to their association with Krsna in both Goloka-Vrndavana and the Vaikuntha planets.

Srila Prabhupada - "The jiva-soul's position in the spiritual world is voluntary, some devotees want to serve Krsna as a flower; they become flower there. If I want to be a flower I shall lie down at the lotus feet of Krsna and become flower, voluntarily, and 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." (SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 Text 1-4, Melb, Australia May 20, 1975)

This means the Kingdom of God is NOT a "one-sided" dominating dictatorial impersonal domain devoid of "free will" that does not allow personal voluntary contributions or offerings to God (Krsna) that expand, enrich and flavour the relationship.

"Free will" is eternally the constitutional make up of EVERY individual "marginal living entity" (jiva-soul) and the foundation in ALL relationship with Krsna.

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 another one. 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, India, Nov 12, 1973)<>





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