Krsna is the ultimate source and sustainer of all that there is, encompassing all that exists and all that is not yet existing. In other words, Krsna is behind everything that exists, and will eventually exist due to He being the cause of all causes and owner of all that there is.

Everything there is, known or unknown, within or without, all exist within Krsna. In this way Krsna is everything and nothing exists without Him. 

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be." (BG, Ch 2 text 12)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change." (BG, Ch 2 text 13)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed."(BG, Ch 2 text 14)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O best among men [Arjuna], the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation." (BG, Ch 2 text 15)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent [the material body] there is no endurance and of the eternal [the soul] there is no change. This they have concluded by studying the nature of both." (BG, Ch 2 text 16)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul." (BG, Ch 2 text 17)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - “The material body of the indestructible, immeasurable and eternal living entity is sure to come to an end; therefore, fight, O descendant of Bharata." (BG, Ch 2 text 18)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Neither he who thinks the living entity the slayer nor he who thinks it slain is in knowledge, for the self slays not nor is slain." (BG, Ch 2 text 19)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain." (BG, Ch 2 text 20 "corrected" 1983 edition)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O Pārtha, how can a person who knows that the soul is indestructible, eternal, unborn and immutable kill anyone or cause anyone to kill?" (BG, Ch 2 text 21)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones." (BG, Ch 2 text 22)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind." (BG, Ch 2 text 23)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same." (BG, Ch 2 text 24)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "It is said that the soul is invisible, inconceivable and immutable. Knowing this, you should not grieve for the body." (BG, Ch 2 text 25)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "If, however, you think that the soul [or the symptoms of life] is always born and dies forever, you still have no reason to lament, O mighty armed." (BG, Ch 2 text 26)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "One who has taken his birth is sure to die, and after death one is sure to take birth again. Therefore, in the unavoidable discharge of your duty, you should not lament."  (BG, Ch 2 text 27)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation?"(BG, Ch 2 text 28)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Some look on the soul as amazing, some describe him as amazing, and some hear of him as amazing, while others, even after hearing about him, cannot understand him at all." (BG, Ch 2 text 29)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O descendant of Bharata, he who dwells in the material body can never be slain. Therefore, you need not grieve for any living being." (BG, Ch 2 text 30)

Srila Prabhupada – "There are no new souls, new and old are due to this material body, but the jiva-soul is never born and never dies, so if there is no birth, how can there be new souls?" (Letter to Jagadisa dasa, 9 July 1970)

Nothing can operate or exist separate from Krsna, not even a blade of grass can move without the will of the Lord because Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, cause of all causes and proprietor of all things.

So, how does free will fit into Krsna ultimate control of all things? And further more, how is it that the individual jiva-souls can express themselves independently from Krsna when ultimately all of Krsna's creation is under His control?

Paradoxically the individual jiva-souls have always been able to express themselves in their own unique distinctive way under Krsna's blessing. 

Krsna allows this independent nature just so His devotees can voluntarily act independently, creating a two-sided relationship with Krsna. This means the individual jiva-souls can act in anyway they choose, for or against the desires of Kṛṣṇa.

In this way, the individual jiva-souls can always express themselves in their own unique distinctive way, separate from being controlled by Krsna the way a puppet master controls his puppets. 

Krsna allows this freedom because he knows a one-sided none contributing dictatorial relationship is loveless impersonalism. This is why Krsna allows a two-way constructive relationship based on voluntary service

Krsna knows that without this freedom of expression His devotees have, there can never be any loving exchanges, voluntary cooperative or reciprocation between Kṛṣṇa and His devotees. 

Even though Krsna is the Supreme controller, without allowing the individual jiva-souls to experience their own unique freedom of choice, actions and thoughts, His Kingdoms of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana,l would be loveless cold impersonal paradises

Love can never be experienced or shared with just one, not even by Krsna or Visnu, love is only possible between two, this is why Krsna created Srimati Radharani, just so He is never alone.

The full spiritual expression and potential in the spiritual world (Visnu's unlimited Vaikuntha planets, and Krsna’s central planet Goloka-Vrindavana) are experienced in a "two-sided" cooperative contributing exchange of voluntary service. In this way, a unique independent relationship exists between Kṛṣṇa and His individual devotees.

By having His creation in this way, Kṛṣṇa is allowing diversity, and a "two-way" loving contributions, exchanges and reciprocation that forever enrich and expand the relationship between Krsna and His individual devotees. 

This allows personalism to prevail, denying impersonalism, which is "one-sided" loveless dictatorial socialism.

This means the individual jiva-souls (devotees) in the spiritual world can always express themselves as they please, being separate from Krsna's overwhelming authoritarian control yet always part and parcel of His universal creation.

As explained above, Krsna allows the independent unique thoughts and actions from the devotees, just so they can always openly express themselves independently from Krsna in their own unique distinctive way in unlimited personal ways that forever expands tge spiritual world with an eternally increasing number of Krsna's pastimes (Lilas). 

Freedom of self-expression (free-will) must exist in the spiritual world by Kṛṣṇa to permit and encourage His devotees to voluntarily express themselves in their own particular service that they choose to do, and not chosen for them by Krsna. 

Each individual jiva-soul eternally has their own unique distinctive independent personality that allows them to forever voluntarily expand their variety of devotional contributions to Krsna.  

Therefore, the individual devotees can always choose to serve Krsna in their own unique way, or can even reject Krsna if they choose. Without such freedom of expression, then genuine voluntary loving exchanges and reciprocation with Krsna can never exist.

If Krsna denied His devotees their freedom of expression or being able to make their own voluntary contributions eternally, then their existence as a unique distinctive meaningful individual devotee has no meaning at all, making them no better than dead stone or lifeless matter. 

Those foolish naive individual persons who only want to be Krsna's mindless pawn (slave) or non-contributing puppet ("yes" men and women), who are told what to do and think, are practising mindless impersonalism which is spiritual suicide to a genuine Vaisnava devotee of Kṛṣṇa.

The natural full devotional potential of voluntary contributions from the individual jiva-souls, does not allow them to be "mindless brainless puppets" explained above who are always controlled by the dictates and demands of an impersonal puppeteer.

Free will even means one can choose to accept or reject Krsna, otherwise the concept of free will and loving exchanges and reciprocation is meaningless.

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 - "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)

The paradox here is the individual jiva-souls have their independence and free will too, just like Krsna does even though He is the Supreme controller of all things that includes the individual jiva-souls having their free will.

In other words, each individual jiva-soul has their own unique personality and character always separate and independent from Krsna's Personality and absolute control that He allows, for the purpose of having a "two-sided" open relationship between Kṛṣṇa and the individual jiva-souls.

Krsna allows it to be be this way just to create diversities and encourage a voluntary constructive contributions from the individual jiva-souls in their relationship with Kṛṣṇa. 

If it was all a "one-way" dictatorship without any diversity and independent voluntary contributions (offerings) coming from the individual jiva-soul, then it is impossible for loving exchanges in a two-way exchange to exist.

Therefore, even though Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, and all individual jīva-souls are fully dependent on Krsna, the paradox here is each individual jiva-soul always have their unique distinctive freedom of thought and choices too eternally.

Free will only has meaning when the individual jiva-souls can express themselves in a "two-sided" voluntary affair of loving exchanges and reciprocation with Krsna.

In other words, loving reciprocation is only possible in a "two-way" exchange between the individual jiva-souls and Kṛṣṇa, both contributing to the relationship of nectarine mellows by serving each other, real loving exchanges can only be expressed and exist under these conditions. 

Yes, loving exchanges and reciprocation are only eternally possible on a "two-way street. 

The word "reciprocation" only has meaning when there are two involved, not one! 

As said above, free will only has meaning when the individual jiva-souls can express themselves in an open "two-sided" loving voluntary affair without being manipulated, used or bullied to obey.

Also being able to have the choice to reject Krsna proves that "free will" does truly exist.

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 means one can use it properly, or one can misuse it, that is independence (free will). If you make it one way only, that you can never fall down from the spiritual world, that is not independence (free will), that is force." (Mayapur, June 20, 1973)

Having free will (freedom of expression) is the eternal constitutional make up of every marginal living entity (individual jiva-soul), and is the foundation of their voluntary contributing relationship of unique distinctive service to Krsna.

Srila Prabhupāda – ''Love means a relationship between "two persons", then there is exchange, then there is genuine 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)

Even though Krsna allows the individual jiva-souls to have this "freedom of expression,"  it is really so He can experience a unique two-sided relationship with the individual jiva-souls, allowing them to contribute to the relationship. 

Krsna at all times has eternal loving affection for His individual jiva-soul expansions (devotees), and He allows them to voluntarily express their unique expression to Him too in their own independent way.

Krsna loves His devotees far more than they can ever love Him. 

Krsna allows free will just to see what His devotees choose to offer Him without any pressure or force from Him.

The individual jiva-souls (devotees) are given the freedom to voluntary make their own choices, decisions and unique contributions to Krsna or ignore Him if they choose. 

Krsna always remains the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes who is in control of everything. Paradoxically this means everything that happens is Kṛṣṇa's divine plan, including what the individual jiva-souls do with their free will. 

In other words, whatever choices they make, Krsna already knows its outcome because He is behind everything that happens, and everything there is, is part of Krsna. This is not just philosophy, this is realizations. 

Just like the Sun-disc and the sun-rays cannot exist separately from each other similarly, Krsna is never separate from His variety of living entities known as- 

1 - Visnu-tattvas, unlimited direct expansions of Krsna like Narayana, Maha-Visnu,  Garbhodakashayi Visnu, Paramatma (Super-Soul) are also Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes. 

2 - Sakti-tattva, in this case means Srimati Radharani and Her unlimited expansions in the spiritual world. Those expansion of Radharani are known as "Visnu-sakti-tattva" expansions of Krsna who are technically "Viṣṇu-tattva" expansions of Krsna (non-different from Krsna playing a different role in His own unlimited pastimes.  

3 - Siva-tattva, the mysterious Lord Siva and his various expansions who prefere to stay in the temporary material world.

4 - Jiva-tattva, the individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities), known as the separated living entities from Krsna who can choose to stay in the spiritual world with Krsna and Visnu, or choose to enter the temporary material world and artificially imitate Krsna by attempting to be the controller of their destiny.    

Each eternal individual jiva-soul is a unique one of a kind independent person as a spiritual bodily form, who have their own unique distinctive personality separate from Krsna's Personality and the other individual jiva-souls.

As said above, loving devotional exchanges (service) and all unique offerings to Krsna are always is based on a "two-way" voluntary exchange of personal cooperative and feelings that manifest as loving acts of devotion between Kṛṣṇa and His devotees, who go on too voluntarily contribute their own distinctive expressions (offerings) to Him which is the real meaning of surrendering to Krsna's will, which never denies the free will and voluntary offerings from each individual jiva-soul (devotees).

On the other hand, when free will is ignored and the individual jiva-souls are forced to act under a one-sided domineering impersonal dictatorship that denies personal voluntary cooperative contributions of reciprocal exchanges and feelings, will only leave the individual jiva-souls feeling no better than dead useless stone Srila Prabhupada has explained.

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 don't offer you anything in return, 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 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 - "In the spiritual world the bodily appearance of the devotee (individual jiva-soul) is always a voluntary choice, appearing as what ever form they choose so they can please Krsna." (Lecture SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 1-4, Melb, Australia May 20, 1975)

Srila Prabhupada - "The individual jiva-soul's position in the spiritual world is always voluntary, some devotees want to serve Krsna as flower; so 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 one can change their spiritual bodily form, from flower to human bodily form, that is spiritual life. There is no restriction, if a devotee wants to serve Krsna as cow, they serve Krsna as cow, as calf, as flower, as plant, as water, as ground, as field or pathway, as father, as mother, as friend, as beloved, anything is possible, it is inconceivable, yet a fact." (SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 1-4, Melb, Australia May 20, 1975)

All the individual jiva-souls (devotees) in the spiritual world on the Vaikuntha planets of Visnu, and within Krsna’s central Abode of Goloka Vrindavana, can always express themselves in their own unique distinctive way in a spiritual bodily form they choose to be. 

In this way, they voluntarily offer to Krsna and Visnu what they choose to offer based on their free will and never impersonally forced or demanded by the Lord. 

Such unique personal contributions they always voluntary choose that eternally makes the relationship with Krsna a two-sided open affair of cooperation and reciprocation.

In the spiritual world (anti-matter), all relationships with Krsna are equally blissful to each other, just like one may like a carnation flower, while others may choose to like a rose flower.

So whether one's spiritual bodily form is human, a blade of grass, a tree, as bird or a bench, spiritually they are equal individual jiva-souls.

Although, the original spiritual bodily form of every individual jiva-soul is like Krsna's two armed form Prabhupada has explained.

The full potential and eternal original feature (individual spiritual bodily form) of all marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls), is a two-arm form like Krsna's Body. 

The individual jiva-souls were never created, they are beginningless and endless like Krsna as explained above in Chapter two of Bhagavad Gita As It Is.

Srila Prabhupada - "God is also human form, "man is made after the shape of God," so Kṛṣṇa is also like human form, two hands, two legs." The human form is also the full manifestation of the individual jiva-soul." (Melb, Australia May 20, 1975)

Srila Prabhupada - "The individual jiva-soul is not formless; it has got form (spiritual bodily form), the individual jiva-souls always have form and is expressed as hands, legs, heads, everything. But with our material eyes at the present, our gross eyes, we cannot see these facts; therefore we foolishly believe the individual jiva-souls have no form." (Based on lecture, BG, Ch 2 Text 14, Mexico, Feb 14, 1975)

Devotee – "Is the original spiritual bodily form of the individual jiva-soul a human form?"

Srila Prabhupada – "Yes, human form, God is also human form, man is made after the shape of God, I think that is in the Bible also, is it not? So God is also like human form. Here you see Krsna, two hands, two legs."

Hari-sauri dasa – "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 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 dasa - "Are they covered in the spiritual world?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Not in the spiritual world, the appearance of the devotee (individual jiva-soul) is voluntary, in what ever form they choose [as explained above] (SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 1-4, Melb, Australia May 20, 1975)

Real loving exchanges or service can only exist in a "two-way" reciprocal relationship of voluntary service and never under a "one-sided" mindless totalitarian manipulative dictatorship. 

Only free will allows the individual jiva-souls to voluntarily participate in loving devotional exchanges with Krsna and Visnu, and contribute to the relationship with the Lord in their own unique way. Without free will there can never be loving exchanges. 

Such voluntary service deepens one's exchanges and reciprocation with Krsna through personal expressions that enhances, enriches and adds mystery and a variety of flavours to one's unique relationship with Krsna in the spiritual world.

Krsna allows the eternal individual jiva-souls (devotees) in the spiritual world to continually re-invent themselves with their own voluntary distinctive unique personal contributions, this allows diversity and mystery in the relationship, meaning there is an unlimited range of variegatedness in one's personal service offerings to Krsna that is forever expand their progressive independent contributions.

This infinitely expands the individual jiva-souls voluntary participation, personal contributions, cooperation and service in an unlimited variety of distinctive unique ways in Krsna's never ending expanding blissful pastimes (lilas)

Srila Prabhupada – "Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling, then there is love. It never achieved by force, no, Krsna does not want to become a lover like that - ‘You love me, otherwise I shall kill you!" (Lecture, Washington DC July 8, 1976)

Personalism is only possible between two individual persons, in a "two-way" voluntary exchange of feelings and emotions. Only then does the relationship expand and enriches the relationship with an array of multiple affection of loving, exchanges between the individual jiva-souls (devotees) and Krsna.

Without free will the individual jiva-soul would never have the vision to intelligently voluntarily contribute in their relationship with Kṛṣṇa, and increase and expand one's awareness of who they are as a contributing independent distinctive unique individual jiva-soul. 

Having free will therefore, is the eternal constitutional make up of every marginal living entity (individual jiva-soul), and the foundation for all individual jiva-soul's selfless contributions to Krsna or their choice to ignore Kṛṣṇa.

However, this also means one can reject Krsna if they choose, otherwise free will has no meaning.

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 can choose to act sometimes wrongly, that means we have free will."

Hayagriva dasa - "A man may know better but still chooses to act wrongly."

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, but that is free will, he misuses his free will, just like a thief, he knows that his stealing is wrong, it is bad, but still he does it, that is due to free will. He cannot check his greediness, so in spite of knowing he is doing the wrong thing, still he will be eventually punished. He knows this because he has seen other thieves get punished for their wrong doing and put in prison. Everything he knows but still he steals. Why? Because of misusing their free will. However, unless there is the choice of misusing their free will, there is no question of having free will." (Excerpt from: Discussions on Rene Descartes philosophy)÷#÷

Krsna allows the eternal individual jiva-souls (devotees) in the spiritual world to continually re-invent themselves by voluntarily serving in a capacity they, as individual persons, choose, by making their own unique distinctive contributions or offerings to Krsna.

This allows diversity and an unlimited range of variegations in the devotee's personal service to Krsna, that is forever expanding their progressive independent contributions to Krsna or Visnu in the Kingdom of God (the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana)

This infinitely expands their voluntary service participation, personal contributions and inspiration in pleasing Krsna in an unlimited variety of unique ways in their association with Krsna in His never ending expanding blissful pastimes (lilas) in the spiritual world.

The unique distinctive relationship between Krsna and His individual devotees is eternally a two-way exchange of loving exchanges, reciprocation and voluntary service that is never possible in a one-sided forced impersonal surrender.

This is why genuine loving exchanges and reciprocation can only be expressed when there are two persons, and never be expressed by just one individual.

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." (Lecture SB, Canto 2 Ch 1 text 3, Paris, June 12, 1974)

Krsna allows the individual jiva-souls (His devotees) to have their free will because He wants to see distinctive voluntary independent expressions of love towards Him from His devotee's personal choices with their own idiosyncratic thoughtful contributions on their own.

Krsna wants His devotees to be creative in their independent offerings, friendship and service to Him. In other words, Kṛṣṇa wants a two-sided open reciprocal cooperative contributing relationship of loving exchanges with His intimate devotees, where they can voluntarily express themselves as they choose, in their own unique way, as separate independent individuals from Krsna, yet simultaneously fully dependent on Him due to being His parts and parcels.

This means the devotees of Krsna should never surrender to a mindless puppetry “one-sided" dominating relationship, where the devotee is ordered what to think, and how to serve without being encouraged to think for themselves with their own unique distinctive personal voluntary contributions. Such a one-sided impersonal relationship is actually a loveless dictatorship and is impersonalism!

Srila Prabhupada – "Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling, then there is love. It never achieved by force, no, Krsna does not want to become a lover like that - ‘You love me, otherwise I shall kill you!" (Lecture, Washington DC July 8, 1976)

As said above, real love (service) is voluntary and can never exist on a one-way path because love can only exists when two are involved in voluntary reciprocal contributing loving exchanges.

Krsna allows free will (voluntary self-expression) so His devotees can experience their own distinctive individuality by making their own offerings or contributions to Him in a way that forever expands loving exchanges and reciprocation in a two-way transition and never in a one-sided non-contributing loveless dictatorship.

In this way, free will only eternally exists for Krsna's devotees because Krsna wants a "two-way" contributing open relationship with His devotees, therefore Krsna always encourages self-expression and unique personal contributions from His dear devotees that make the relationship a two-sided exchange of loving emotions.

The relationship with Krsna must be this way because love can never be experienced with just one, there must two, an open two-sided reciprocal relationship of mutual returns, cooperation and respect.

Srila Prabhupada - "In the spiritual world service is always voluntary, some devotees desire to serve Krsna as flower; they become flower voluntary, and can change from flower to unlimited forms in the spiritual world including human form if the devotee desires, that is spiritual life, it is always voluntary with no restrictions. 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, Melb, Australia May 20, 1975)

Krsna gave His devotees their freedom (free-will) so they can voluntarily choose to serve Kṛṣṇa in unlimited creative ways, or even reject Him if they choose, this will only prove Krsna has allowed free will.

Ultimately, this is all Krsna's creation and how He manages it is entirely up to Him due to being the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes as Bhagavad Gita As It Is explains.

However, the devotees always have their freedom of self expression too that Krsna allows so they can express themselves in their own unique distinctive way, it must be this way because Krsna knows if He never gave His devotees (the individual jīva-souls) their independence (free will to express themselves in their own distinctive way), then genuine loving exchanges, affection and reciprocation in a open two-way exchange, could never exist, making Krsna no different from an impersonal puppet master who manipulates and controls everything his surrounding puppets do and think.

Such a mindless dictatorial existence without free will, which means having the unique independent ability of self-expression that allows one to personally choose their own voluntary offerings to contribute to Krsna, is dangerous impersonalism.

Therefore, Krsna's devotees (individual jiva-souls) are eternal independent thinking thoughtful spiritual living persons as an eternal spiritual bodily form, who are indestructible and can never be destroyed, terminated, cut into pieces or extinguished as Bhagavad Gita As It Is chapter two explains.

On the Vaikuntha planets and in Goloka-Vrindavana, personal voluntary expressions of loving exchanges between Krsna and the individual jiva-souls, are made possible due to free will. 

These voluntary creative contributions from the individual jiva-souls are eternally encouraged by Krsna for the purpose of adding flavour, variety and mystery to their intimate relationship.

This means the Kingdom of God is not a "one-sided" dominating impersonal dictatorship devoid of free will (voluntary service and personal contributions)

Such a one-sided dictatorial relationship does not allow personal contributions or offerings to God (Krsna) that are only found in a two-way relationship that expands, enriches and flavours the devotees personal voluntary service to Krsna.

In an impersonal one-sided relationship, where a devotee is always told what to do, how to think and how to act, only denies the devotee's their individual God given ability of self expression that provides unique contributions and voluntary loving exchanges.

As said above, love or service is never a "one-sided" affiliate of total supremacy or pre-eminence in the spiritual world because for love to flourish and expand, there must be two.

Genuine loving relationships between Kṛṣṇa and His devotees are based on voluntary reciprocal exchanges and personal contributions between two, love can never be experienced by just one.

The devotees (individual jiva-souĺs) have their own idiosyncratic choices on how they want to serve and please Krsna too, or they can even choose to reject Krsna if they want, this is the consequence of having free will.

Loving reciprocation is only possible on a two-way street between two, with each contributing to the relationship's expansion of nectarine mellows.

The words reciprocation and loving exchanges only has meaning when there are two involved, not one.

The individual jiva-souĺs (devotees) have their choices too, even if that sometimes means rejecting Krsna and choosing to do their own thing in the temporary material world.

The individual devotees in their full potential on the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka Vrindavana, are forever positively re-inventing themselves by always choosing how to continuously increase their variety of devotional voluntary service to Krsna or Visnu.

This is achieved by forever positively discovering a variety of ways to expand their individual expressions of personal offerings and affection to Krsna in their perpetual unique relationship with Him.

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.” (Lecture SB, Canto 2 Ch 1 text 3, Paris, June 12, 1974)

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)

The relationship with Krsna in the spiritual world (The Kingdom of God) is never a “one-way” forced unproductive affinity that denies personal contributions (impersonalism).

The individual devotee's relationship with Krsna is always based on "free will," this allows a variety of unique creative voluntary offerings of service to Krsna, only then can genuine loving exchanges exist.

Śrīla Prabhupāda – “Love means two-persons, 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, then these things must be there.” (Aug 9, 1976, Tehran)

Personal voluntarily self-chosen contributions offered by Krsna's devotees, are different from Krsna's shower of loving affection to His devotees, putting the relationship on a two-way street of loving exchanges which means the individual jiva-souls  have their own unique independent thinking and chosen actions.

The relationship between Krsna and His devotees are eternally a two-way mystery of loving exchanges that only further enriches, intensifies and expands loving expressions and affection between the devotees and Krsna.

Such personal unique distinctive contributions from the individual devotee's independent expressions, coming from their independent execution of free will, forever expands their personal ability to make voluntary offerings to Krsna in the spiritual world that forever increase their loving emotions for Krsna in a healthy two-way exchange of loving reciprocation.**#

Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes and expands Himself into innumerable categories of living entities known as-

1 - Visnu-tattva (unlimited direct expansions of Krsna beginning with Balarama)

2 - Visnu-"sakti"-tattva (internal intimate potency of Kṛṣṇa headed by Srimati Radharani and Her eternal associates (also direct expansions of Kṛṣṇa).

3 - Siva-tattva, (Lord Siva) mysterious independent expansion of Krsna in a league of his own who is not Visnu-tattva or jiva-tattva (individual jiva-soul). 

4 - Jiva-tattva [unlimited individual jiva-souls] "separated expansions" from Krsna with unique distinctive individuality and independent personality from Krsna's Personality, who are allowed by Kṛṣṇa, to voluntarily accept or reject Him if they choose - therefore they are called Krsna's "marginal living entities."

Krsna is likened to the original candle who lights all other candles (Visnu-tattva full expansions) of the same luminosity. 

Furthermore, Krsna as His original Vrindavana Form, has 64 qualities of which 4 of those are unique and distinctive to only Kṛṣṇa who, as His original childhood Form, never leaves Goloka-Vṛndāvana in the spiritual world.

Krsna’s first Visnu-tattva expansion is Balarama and from Him, all other Visnu-tattva expansions manifest and represents Kṛṣṇa outside Vrindavana in the Vaikuntha planets, and material world.

Visnu-tattva expansion do not have those 4 extra qualities like Kṛṣṇa does, they only manifest 60 of Krsna's 64 qualities all the time which is having 93.75% of Krsna's attributes.

Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes and expands as innumerable categories of different living entities known as- 

Visnu-tattva are unlimited expansions of God (Krsna), each with their own unique name based on their particular pastime on their own Vaikuntha planet. They are all direct expansions of Kṛṣṇa.

Visnu-"sakti"-tattva (Radharani and Her expansions and associates known as Krsna's spiritual internal energy), also direct expansions of Kṛṣṇa.

Siva-tattva (Lord Siva and his expansions and often ghostly associates.

Jiva-tattva (individual jiva-souls who have their own unique distinctive personality separate from Krsna's Personality). 

Krsna’s first expansion is Balarama and from Him all other Visnu-tattva expansions manifest. Those living entities who are almost equal to Krsna are called "Visnu-tattva."

Others living entities like the individual jiva-tattva (jiva-souls) are separated energies and therefore have their own independence that includes their own unique distinctive personality and character. 

Another living entity category, Siva-tattva (Siva), is neither Visnu-tattva or jiva-tattva (individual jiva-soul) but is in a league of his own. 

All the different variety of living entities are Krsna's expansions, each having a portion of Krsna's 64 qualities however, only Kṛṣṇa has all 64 qualities in full.

Visnu-tattva and Visnu-"sakti"-tattva expansions have 60 of Krsna's 64 qualities, which is 93.75% of Krsna's 100% attributes. 

Siva-tattva (Lord Siva) expansion have 55 of Krsna's 64 qualities, which is 85.938% of Krsna's 100% attributes.

Jiva-tattva (individual jiva-soul) expansion have 50 of Krsna's 64 qualities, which is 78.125% of Krsna's 100% attributes.

Being all-powerful, Krsna can expand Himself into unlimited forms with the same power and characteristics He possesses, without diminishing Himself in anyway.

Krsna in His original Form has 64 qualities, 4 of those distinctive He only has and His Visnu-tattva expansions do not have those 4 extra qualities all the time.

Krsna expands Himself as an unlimited number of Visnu-tattva expansions just so He can enjoy in a variety of ways with His innumerable devotees.

Krsna's Visnu-tattva also expansions manage the decaying impermanent material creation such as Maha-Visnu, Garbhodakashayi Visnu, and Paramatma (Supersoul). All Visnu/Narayana Forms have unlimited different names who are all the Supreme Personality of Godhead also.

They live on the eternal blissful Vaikuntha planets in different roles, and also come to the material creation too under unlimited different names like Narsingadeva, Ramachandra, Varaha etc. 

The individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) can choose to live in three basic existences. 

1 - The individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) can choose to remain fully "active" in the anti-material eternal Spiritual Sky known as the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana).

2 - Or, they can choose to enter the temporary material creation [matter] which is unlimited Brahmanda impermanent material universes where repeated birth and death take place. 

3 - Or, after some time in the temporary material world, they can enter the temporary impersonal "inactive" formless Brahmajyot however, the individual jiva-souls cannot remain "inactive" in that condition forever, therefore they eventually leave that "inactive existence" and again take birth in the material world. 

This is because the eternal nature of the individual jiva-souls is to be always active (ultimately in the service of the Lord in the spiritual world) and not be inactive or dormant which is an unnatural conditional state of the individual jiva-souls.  

All these are possible because the individual  jiva-souls have free will as part of their eternal independent constitutional make-up.

The marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls) were never created, they are eternal persons without beginning or end just like Krsna. 

Therefore, just like the sun-rays (compared to the individual jiva-souls), that always exist simultaneously with the "Sun-disc," the individual jiva-souls are eternally connected to Krsna.

The individual jiva-souls are eternal spiritual living persons  who can never be destroyed, terminated or extinguished, the individual jiva-souls are indestructible.

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - “Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.” (BG, Ch 2 text 12)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - “As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change." (BG, Ch 2 text 13)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed." (BG, Ch 2 text 14)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O best among men [Arjuna], the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation." (BG, Ch 2 text 15)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - “Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent [the material body] there is no endurance and of the eternal [the soul] there is no change. This they have concluded by studying the nature of both." (BG, Ch 2 text 16)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - “That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul." (BG, Ch 2 text 17)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - “The material body of the indestructible, immeasurable and eternal living entity is sure to come to an end; therefore, fight, O descendant of Bharata." (BG, Ch 2 text 18)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - “Neither he who thinks the living entity the slayer nor he who thinks it slain is in knowledge, for the self slays not nor is slain." (BG, Ch 2 text 19)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain." (BG Ch 2 text 20 "corrected" 1983 edition)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O Pārtha, how can a person who knows that the soul is indestructible, eternal, unborn and immutable kill anyone or cause anyone to kill?" (BG, Ch 2 text 21)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones." (BG, Ch 2 text 22)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind." (BG, Ch 2 text 23)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same." (BG, Ch 2 text 24)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "It is said that the soul is invisible, inconceivable and immutable. Knowing this, you should not grieve for the material body." (BG, Ch 2 text 25)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "If, however, you think that the soul [or the symptoms of life] is always born and dies forever, you still have no reason to lament, O mighty armed." (BG, Ch 2 text 26)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "One who has taken his birth is sure to die, and after death one is sure to take birth again. Therefore, in the unavoidable discharge of your duty, you should not lament."  (BG, Ch 2 text 27)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation?" (BG, Ch 2 text 28)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Some look on the soul as amazing, some describe him as amazing, and some hear of him as amazing, while others, even after hearing about him, cannot understand him at all." (BG, Ch 2 text 29)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O descendant of Bharata, he who dwells in the material body can never be slain. Therefore, you need not grieve for any living being." (BG, Ch 2 text 30)

All individual jīva-souls are eternal persons as a spiritual bodily form therefore, there are no new jiva-souls being created because they have always existed meaning they are beginningless and endless like Krsna.

Srila Prabhupada – "There are no new souls, new and old are due to this material body, but the individual jiva-souls are never born and will never die, so if there is no birth, how can there be new jiva-souls?" (Letter to Jagadisa dasa 9th July 1970)

As said above, Visnu-tattva expansions on the Vaikuntha planets are known as Lord Visnu, Lord Narayana and unlimited other names that describes their particular pastimes.

On the Vaikuntha planets the individual jiva-souls have an all-in-reverence relationship with Lord Visnu, those who voluntarily choose to go there see Lord Visnu as the all powerful God and controller of everything.

Each Lord Viṣṇu on their Vaikuntha planet, has a different name based on the pastimes going on in there. 

On the Vaikuntha planets, there is complete reverence and deep respect and humility with an overwhelming mood of awe and dedicated in their love for Lord Visnu (God) unlike the individual jiva-souls in Goloka-Vrindavana who never see Krsna as God or even care. 

The individual jiva-souls on the Vaikuntha planets always see Visnu/Narayana as the all worshipable Supreme Personality of Godhead however, Krsna in Goloka-Vrindavana the inhabitants there do not seem Krsna as God, they see Him as their amazing special friend only.

Krsna remains aloof from the affairs of the material temporary decaying creation and also from the perpetual Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual world that surround His personal abode of Goloka-Vrindavan.

This is because He is for ever enjoying loving pastimes with His friends, family, uncles, aunties, boy friends, girl friends and all other associates in Goloka-Vrindavana who Krsna sees all equal to Him and they have no idea He is God or even cares. 

The individual jiva-souls in Goloka-Vrindavana see Krsna as the most amazing, caring, selfless "Person" they know, and love Him dearly, but as said above, have no idea He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, nor do they care. 

No one in Goloka-Vrindavana sees Krsna as God the Supreme controller of all things, He is just their best wonderful friend, parent, lover etc they feel safe to be with and always remember.

Krsna’s first expansion is Balarama, His elder brother in Goloka-Vrindavan. From Balarama comes all other Visnu-tattva expansions.

Srila Prabhupada - "Balarāma executes the orders of Lord Kṛṣṇa in the work of creation, and in the form of Lord Śeṣa He serves Kṛṣṇa in various ways. According to expert opinion, Balarāma, as the chief of the original quadruple forms, is also the original Saṅkarṣaṇa. Krsna's first expansion Balarāma expands Himself in five forms-

(1) Mahā-saṅkarṣaṇa, 

(2) Kāraṇodakaśāyī, 

(3) Garbhodakaśāyī, 

(4) Kṣīrodakaśāyī, 

(5) Śeṣa. 

These five plenary portions are responsible for both the spiritual and material cosmic manifestations. In these five forms Lord Balarāma assists Lord Kṛṣṇa in His activities. The first four of these forms are responsible for the cosmic manifestations, whereas Śeṣa is responsible for personal service to the Lord. 

Śeṣa is called Ananta, or unlimited, because He assists the Personality of Godhead in His unlimited expansions by performing an unlimited variety of services. Śrī Balarāma is the servitor Godhead who serves Lord Kṛṣṇa in all affairs of existence and knowledge. Lord Nityānanda Prabhu, who is the same servitor Godhead, Balarāma, performs the same service to Lord Gaurāṅga by constant association." (CC Adi 5.10, Purport)

Srila Prabhupāda - "Lord Nityānanda is Balarāma, who is the origin of Mahā-Viṣṇu. Kṛṣṇa’s first expansion is Balarāma, a portion of whom is manifested as Saṅkarṣaṇa, who then expands as Pradyumna. In this way so many expansions take place." (CC Introduction)

Although Krsna expands into many forms identical to Himself, He remains the one individual original independent entity who is simultaneously one and different with His spiritual worlds and material creation, meaning  all-pervasive and similtaneously a person in Bodily Form.

Krsna eventually expands as Maha-Visnu (Karanodakshayi Visnu) and creates the material worlds which are actually the dreams of His expansion Maha-Visnu.

The material bodily vessels the individual jiva-souls possess when they choose to enter the temporary material creation, are chosen from the dreams of Maha-Visnu.

The material creation takes up 1/4 of the Spiritual Sky, everything going on within the unlimited Brahmanda universes existing there, are the dreams of Maha-Visnu according to Srimad Bhagavatam.

Every material bodily vessel in the material creation that the fallen individual jiva-souls possess (fall down too), must be first "hired" from Maha-Visnu the creator of the material worlds and all material bodily vessels entered by the individual jiva-souls.

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 USA)

Srila Prabhupada - "The "immediate" expansions of the Lord are called svāṁśa or "personal direct" expansions (Visnu-tattva). The "separated" expansions of the Lord are called vibhinnāṁśa - jiva-tattva or independent jiva-souls like us." (BG, Ch 10 text 37, Purport)

Each individual jiva-soul in the spiritual world can choose to voluntarily serve Krsna in an unlimited variety of ways, as an unlimited varieties of spiritual bodily forms, or even reject Krsna if they choose to do so, and enter the impermanent material world of repeated birth and death. 

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)

Maha-Visnu is laying down sleeping and in that sleep He dreams the entire material worlds andcall material bodily vessels occupied by the individual jiva-souls.

Everything past, present and future is eternally their in Maha-Visnu's dreams of the material world, therefore, jiva-souls who choose to enter His material creation, live there in a material bodily vessel that comes from Maha-Visnu's dreams that are simultaneously the individual jiva-soul's desires (dreams) too.

Everything conceivable are in the dreams of Maha-Visnu that can for fill any desire the jiva-souls have, everything there is in the material world comes from Maha-Visnu's dreams.

When Maha-Visnu dreams, He creates the material universe known as the Maha-tattva which takes up 25% of the spiritual sky or brahmajyoti.

Within that 25% of the spiritual sky we find billions of individual independent massive single universes called Brahmandas. 

Deep inside each Brahmanda universe, Maha-Visnu expands into a "secondary smaller universe" as Garbhodakashayi Visnu. 

And from Garbhodakashayi Visnu, a Lord Brahma appears and builds the many planetary systems in his material universe. 

There are unlimited Garbhodakashayi Visnus and Lord Brahmas in the material world but only one Maha-Visnu. 

Maha-Visnu has created unlimited Brahmanda material universes, each with a secondary material universe deep inside it where Garbhodakashayi Visnu and Lord Brahma reside.

As said above, there are unlimited Garbhodakashayi Visnus and unlimited Lord Brahmas, but only one Maha-Visnu.

The size of each planetary system within each material universe inside their Brahmanda, vary in size, some larger, some smaller than others. 

In our material universe deep inside our Brahmanda universe, we have 14 planetary systems and is considered a small universe.

Other universes inside their Brahmanda, have many, many more planetary systems.

The size of each Brahmanda and their inner material universe inside it, depends on the how many heads their Lord Brahma has.

Some Lord Brahmas, like ours, has only 4 heads, while other Brahma's within their material universe may have 10, 20, 50, 500, 1000, 100,000 or even a million or more heads.

All inconceivable to the mundane mind.

All the billions of Brahmanda universes coming from the Body of the sleeping Maha-Visnu as seen in painting below, have a secondary inner universe deep inside them with their own Garbhodakashayi Visnu and Lord Brahma.

Srimati Radharani and Krsna are eternally in their abode known as Goloka Vrindavana.

When Krsna wants to enjoy and experience loving exchanges with a women, He expands His potency or energy from within Himself that gives Him enjoyment. This potency He expands as is a Person in the form of a woman add Her name is Srimati Radharani.

Radharani is not a different person from Krsna, or, rather, she is both one with and different from Him. How could two people be one person or one person be two?

A simple example illustrates how this is so. The sun cannot exist without the sunshine, nor the sunshine without the sun. We say, "the sun is in my room"—even though the sun itself is ninety-three million miles away—because the sun appears in the form of its energy. Therefore the energy (the sunshine) and the energetic (the sun) are simultaneously one and different. 

Similarly, Radha and Krsna are simultaneously one and different. Krsna, the self-effulgent Lord, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Srimati Radharani is His supreme pleasure energy. Together They constitute the complete Absolute Truth.

One cannot understand anything about Radha and Krsna through mental speculation. Krsna and His potencies are achintya, inconceivable, and ananta, unlimited. He is the very source of the mind itself, and therefore He is beyond the mind.

The limited mind cannot understand the unlimited Personality of Godhead. The Vedic literature explains this very logically - that which is transcendental to material nature is inconceivable, whereas speculative arguments are all mundane. Since mundane arguments cannot touch transcendental subject matters, one should not try to understand transcendental subjects through mundane arguments.

When ordinary mundane intellectuals try to explain or interpret the identity or pastimes of Radha and Krsna, Krsna's unlimited nature bewilders them, and therefore they misconstrue everything.

Thus they sometimes consider Radha and Krsna to be like an ordinary boy and girl of the material world. But although they often pose as scholars, they do not know what they are talking about.

One should therefore strictly avoid the confused mundane ideas of such blundering intellectuals. 

If one wishes to understand Radha and Krsna, one must understand Them by hearing submissively from a bona fide authority, a genuine spiritual master. The original authority on Krsna is Krsna Himself. Everyone is first an authority regarding his own self, and this is also true regarding Krsna.

Moreover, since Krsna is unlimited, no one else can understand Him fully. Krsna's disciple Arjuna confirms this as follows in Bhagavad Gita As It Is-

svayam evatmanatmanam

vettha tvam purusottama

bhuta-bhavana bhutesa

deva-deva jagat pate

"Indeed, You alone know Yourself by Your own potencies, O origin of all, Lord of all beings, God of gods, O Supreme Person, Lord of the universe!" (BG, Ch 10 text 15)

Although Krsna is inconceivable to mental speculation, those to whom He reveals Himself can understand Him. Krsna first gave such transcendental knowledge to Brahma, the first created living being.

Brahma later transmitted this knowledge to his son Narada, who transmitted it to Vyasa, the author of Bhagavad Gita As It Is. 

In this way, the knowledge has descended from master to disciple, through a chain of the Bhakti tradition, down to the present day.

A spiritual master in this disciplic line is a bona fide authority regarding Krsna. He is the proper person from whom to receive transcendental knowledge.

So what pleases Krsna?

According to Srila Prabhupada, Krsna is the reservoir of all pleasure, and therefore He is all-attractive. Yet Krsna Himself derives pleasure from the service rendered by His devotees. The servants of the servants of the servants of Krsna.

Such devotional service attracts even Him. Krsna Himself, while speaking to a friend, confirms this as follows in Srimad Bhagavatam-

Krsna - "My dear Uddhava, you may know from Me that the attraction I feel for devotional service rendered by My devotees is not to be equaled even if one performs mystic yoga, philosophical speculation or ritualistic sacrifices, studies Vedanta, practices severe austerities or gives up everything in charity. These are, of course, very nice activities, but they are not as attractive to Me as the transcendental loving service rendered by My devotees." (SB Canto 11, Ch 12 Text 1)

Krsna is full in six opulence's- 

beauty, 

wealth, 

fame, 

strength, 

knowledge,  

renunciation. 

No amount of material opulence, therefore, can attract Him. Just as one could not attract a millionaire by offering him a few dollars, one cannot attract Krsna merely by one's limited material opulence. 

Nevertheless, pure devotional service attracts even Krsna. This is the unique distinctive transcendental excellence of devotional service.

Srimati Radharani is the embodiment of pure devotional service. No one can be a greater devotee than She. The very name Radharani comes from the Sanskrit word aradhana, which means worship. Her name is Radharani because She excels all in worshiping Krsna.

Although Krsna is so beautiful that He can attract millions of Cupids and is therefore called Madana-mohana, "the attractor of Cupid," Radharani can attract even Krsna! 

She is therefore called Madana mohana mohini - the attractor of the attractor of Cupid.

One time Krsna, to play a joke on the gopis or cowherd girls of Vrndavana, was hiding beneath a bush, but finally they spotted Him from a distance. 

Krsna then changed Himself into His four-armed form of Narayana. When the gopis approached and found Narayana instead of Kṛṣṇa, they were not very interested in Him; only Krsna's original two-armed form attracted them.

They therefore offered their respectful obeisance's unto Lord Narayana and prayed that He would bestow upon them the benediction of Krsna's eternal association. Then they went on searching for Krsna.

When Srimati Radharani passed by, however, Krsna tried to maintain His disguise as Narayana but was unable to do so; he kept slipping back into His original two-armed form. This illustrates the great influence of Srimati Radharani's pure transcendental love.

Krsna says in Bhagavad Gita As It Is that as one surrenders unto Him, He reciprocates accordingly. 

Therefore the more Radharani tries to please Krsna, the more He desires to please Her, thus in turn increasing Her enthusiasm to increase His pleasure.

Therefore although the Lord is unlimited, both He Himself and His pleasure potency are always increasing. 

The all-blissful reciprocation between the Lord and His pleasure potency is expressed in the transcendental pastimes of Radha and Krsna, which are described in detail in "KRSNA BOOK, the Supreme Personality of Godhead" by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

The reciprocation of loving exchanges between Radha and Krsna and all marginal living entities is the essence of spiritual love.

In the spiritual world, love between Krsna, and His pure devotees is based on selfless loving reciprocal exchanges of service and voluntary offerings ithat are unique to each individual devotee.

Such loving co-operation and selfless devotion among devotees, brings out the very best and full potential of each devotee's spiritual personality and unique character.

In this way, the pure devotees are always trying to please beautiful Krsna in so many ways in service and in playful sport in the mood of Krsna Consciousness.

And Krsna is so kind He always reciprocates in so many amazing ways more than one can ever realize.

All the devotees serve Krsna selflessly and unconditionally in their own unique distinctive way in the mood of loving co-operation without any desire for personal gain.

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, ‘You love me, otherwise I shall kill you!" (Washington DC July 8, 1976)

Srila Prabhupada - ''Because you are son of God you have acquired the quality of your father. You have got little independence. So God does not interfere with your little independence. If you persist to go off and enjoy independently then God says, "All right, you can go." (Melb, Australia June 25, 1974)..^^^..