This is because Krsna (God) is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, and the source of all things.
So, how does "free will" that each individual jiva-soul has, fit into Krsna ultimate control of all things, Krsna being the Supreme controller of all that there is?
And further more, how can the individual jiva-souls express themselves independently from Krsna, including rejecting Krsna if they choose, when in reality this is all Krsna's creation and all things are under His control?
The answer is, paradoxically the individual jiva-souls have always been able to express themselves in their own unique way because free will has always been part and parcel of Krsna's ultimate plan for the individual.
This independence and free will Krsna gives to the individual jiva-souls because it allows them to act autonomously from Krsna's total control, that further creates a two-way voluntary relationship with Krsna, where the individual jiva-souls can act in almost anyway they choose, even against the desires of Kṛṣṇa.
This means Krsna always allows the individual jiva-souls to express themselves in their own unique way, separate from being always controlled by Krsna like a puppet master controls every movement of his puppets.
Krsna knows that such absolute power of control on a one-sided relationship is loveless impersonalism.
This is why Krsna allows a two-way relationship of voluntary service because He knows that without this, there can never be loving exchanges and cooperative reciprocation between Kṛṣṇa and His individual jiva-souls.
Even though Krsna is the Supreme controller, without allowing the individual jiva-souls to also have their own unique freedom of choice, actions and thoughts, His Kingdoms of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana, would be loveless cold impersonal paradises because love can never be experienced or shared with just one, not even Krsna or Visnu.
The full spiritual expression and potential in the spiritual world (the Vaikuntha planets and Krsna’s central planet known as Goloka-Vrindavana) only is experienced by Krsna and His Visnu expansions, and by His individual jiva-souls expansions, when all relationships are a "two-way" voluntary cooperative exchanges in the spiritual world.
Krsna allows it to be this way so that a "two-way or two-sided" 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 to 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 stagnant socialism.
This means the individual jiva-souls (devotees) in the spiritual world can always express as they choose and feel, being separate from Krsna's overwhelming authoritarian control.
Krsna allows this so independent unique thoughts and actions from the individual jiva-souls, can always be openly expressed independently from Krsna in their own unique way, in unlimited personal ways that creates forever expanding diversity.
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 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.
Those foolish naive individual persons who only want 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.
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 even though He is the Supreme controller of all things.
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 and reciprocation are only eternally possible on a "two-way street. The word "reciprocation" only has meaning 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 or bullied 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, decisions and unique contributions.
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 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 as its full potential meaning - in this case refers to Srimati Radharani and Her unlimited expansions in the spiritual world.
3 - Siva-tattva, Lord Siva and his various expansions who tend to stay in the material world.
4 - The individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities), the "separated living entities" meaning they can choose to stay in the spiritual world with Krsna and Visnu, or enter the temporary material world and artificially imitate Krsna by attempting to be the controller of their destiny.
Also, each eternal jiva-soul is a unique one of a kind independent individual, who has their own unique personality separate from Krsna's Personality, and all other individual jiva-souls.
Loving devotional service and unique offerings 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 that denies personal voluntary contributions expressed in a "two-way" exchange of feelings and cooperation, only leaves the individual jiva-souls no better than dead useless stone explained above 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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