So, how are the individual jiva-souls able to freely express themselves when everything is under Krsna's absolute control including past, present and future?
Those foolish naive individual persons who only believe the ultimate goal of devotional service and meaning of surrender, is to be Krsna's mindless pawn or non-contributing puppet and "yes" men and women, who are only told what to do, and how and what to think, are practising impersonalism (spiritual suicide) to a genuine Vaisnava devotee.
Freedom of self-expression (free-will) must exist in the spiritual world for the eternal individual jiva-souls and allowed by Kṛṣṇa to permit and encourage the individual jiva-souls to voluntarily express themselves in a particular service they choose to do, and not chosen for them by Krsna.
Each individual jiva-soul eternally has their own unique independent unique personality that allows them to forever voluntary expand their variety of devotional contributions to Krsna.
Therefore, the individual jiva-souls always voluntary 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 the individual jiva-souls their freedom of expression (free-will), which is being able to make voluntary contributions eternally, then their existence as a unique meaningful individual PERSON has no meaning at all, making them no better than dead stone or lifeless matter.
The full devotional potential of the individual jiva-souls does not allow them to be mindless brainless puppets who are always controlled by the dictates and demands of an impersonal puppeteer.
Free will means one can choose to accept or reject Krsna otherwise the concept of loving exchanges 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.
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 (although this is paradox because Krsna is the cause of all causes and not a blade of grass moves without His sanction).
Krsna allows it to be be this to create diversities and a "two-sided relationship" between the individual jiva-souls and Krsna.
If it was all "one-way traffic" without any diversity and independent contributions (offerings) uniquely coming from each individual jiva-soul without any interference in anyway from Krsna (that He personally allows so diversity eternally exists)
Therefore, even though Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, and all living entities are fully dependent on Krsna, the paradox here is the individual jiva-souls have their unique freedom too eternally.
Free will only has meaning when the individual jiva-souls can express themselves freely 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 with both the individual jiva-souls and Kṛṣṇa both contributing to the relationship's expansion of nectarine mellows of devotional service.
Yes, loving exchanges are only eternally possible on a "two-way street," meaning a cooperative spirit between Kṛṣṇa and His devotees.
The word "reciprocation" only has meaning and expressed as loving exchanges 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" loving affair without being manipulated, used, bullied or controlled in anyway.
Also being able 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 free will." (Philosophy Discussions with Rene Descartes)
Srila Prabhupada – "So everyone can know that independence means one can use it properly, one can misuse it. That is independence. If you make it one way only, that you cannot become fall down, that is not independence. That is force." (Mayapur, June 20, 1973)
Having free will (freedom of expression) is the eternal constitutional make up of every marginal living entity (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)
Even though Krsna allows the "freedom of expression" the individual jiva-souls have, it is really for His amusement, to see what they do with their eternal freedom of expression.
Krsna at all times always has genuin eternal loving affection for His individual jiva-soul expansions (devotees) far more than they can ever have for Him.
Yes, Krsna allows "free will" just to see what happens when the individual jiva-souls are given the freedom to voluntary make their own choices and decisions.
And yes, some do choose to leave Krsna's association in the spiritual world and enter the temporary material world, and attempt to do as they please.
Krsna always remains the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes and all that is happening is also His divine plan.
Just like the Sun-disc and the sun-rays cannot exist separately from each other, similarly Krsna cannot exist separately from His variety of living entities known as
1 - Visnu-tattvas, unlimited direct expansions of Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes.
2 - Sakti-tattva as its full potential meaning - in this case refers to Srimati Radharani and Her unlimited expansions.
3 - Siva-tattva, Lord Siva and his various expansions in the material world.
4 - The individual jiva-souls (jiva-tattva) or separated marginal living entities. Each individual eternal jiva-soul (marginal living entity) is a unique one of a kind independent individual who has their own personality separate from Krsna's Personality, and all other individual jiva-souls.
Loving devotional service to Krsna is always is based on a "two-way" voluntary exchange of personal cooperative feelings manifesting as loving acts of devotion between Kṛṣṇa and His devotees, who go on too voluntarily contribute their own unique expressions (offerings) to Him as the real act of surrendering to Krsna's will that does not deny the free will and voluntary offerings of each individual jiva-soul.
On the other hand, when actions expressed in a "one-way" domineering forceful mood from a "so called God or His representative" in His Kingdom, denies personal voluntary contributions expressed cooperatively as a "two-way" exchange of character building loving emotions, only leaves the individual jiva-souls became no better 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 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).÷.
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