So, how are the individual jiva-souls able to freely express themselves when everything is under Krsna's absolute control including free will and past, present and future?
Those individual devotees who wrongly believe that the ultimate goal of devotional service and surrender to Krsna means to be Krsna's mindless slave, puppet and "yes" men and women, who, once in the Kingdom of God, are only told what to do and what to think, without providing personal contributions and unique offerings, are practising mindless impersonalism, which is the pathway leading to spiritual suicide.
Freedom of self-expression (free-will) must exist in the spiritual world so the eternal individual jiva-souls can have a "two-sided" cooperative reciprocal forever expanding relationship with Krsna.
Such unique independence eternally experienced by the individual jiva-souls, is allowed by Kṛṣṇa to permit and encourage voluntary expression in a service the devotees (individual jiva-souĺs) choose to do, and not chosen by Krsna.
Each individual jiva-soul eternally has their own unique independent personality and spiritual bodily form, allowing them to expand their chosen devotional contributions and service that they offer to Krsna, or reject Krsna if they choose.
The individual jiva-souls as part and parcel of their natural constitutional make up, can always voluntary choose to serve Krsna in the way they want, or can even reject Krsna if they choose.
This must be the case if free will truly exists.
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 their own voluntary contributions eternally, then the existence of the individual jiva-souls being a unique meaningful contributing individual PERSON, has no meaning at all, making them no better than dead stone or lifeless matter. 44⁴
The full devotional potential of the individual jiva-souls does not allow them to be mindless brainless unproductive puppets, who are always only controlled by the dictates and demands of an impersonal puppeteer and denied the ability to make personal unique contributions.
Free will in its full potential, means one can choose to accept Kṛṣṇa, or reject Krsna, otherwise the concept of loving exchanges and free will 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 own independence and free will too, even though Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, cause of all causes and simultaneously one but different from His creation of the spiritual and material worlds.
In other words, each individual jiva-soul (devotee) has their own unique personality and character that is seemly always paradoxically separate from Krsna's Personality and absolute control, although we must never forget that Krsna is the cause of all causes behind everything and not a blade of grass can move without His sanction. ⁸
Krsna allows it to be be this way allowing free will to create diversities within His own creation so a "two-sided" cooperative contributing or non-contributing relationship between the individual jiva-souls and Krsna can exist in His creation.
If it was all a "one-way" totalitarian dictatorship without any diversity and unique independent contributions, expressed in a "two-way" exchange, for good or bad, that the individual jiva-souls can independently express, then the Kingdom of God is denying unique loving exchanges that only happen in "two-sided" cooperative reciprocation (personalism) leaving only an impersonal cold loveless existence of "oneness."
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 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)
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 - "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)
Krsna personally allows the individual jiva-souls to ⁵have free will, so diversity expressed in a "two-way" cooperative spirit, 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.
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.
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 - Jiva-tattva, the individual jiva-souls or separated marginal living entities. Each individual eternal jiva-soul (marginal living entity) is a unique one of a kind independent individual that Kṛṣṇa allows, who have their own unique 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 – "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).
Krsna never tells His devotees how to think or what to offer, Krsna prefers His devotees to choose for themselves how to serve Him.
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).^*^.
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