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 can only act one sided that means I have no free will. Because we act sometimes wrongly that means we have free will. In other words free will means there is always a choice."
Hayagriva dasa - "A man may know better but still act wrongly."
Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, but that is free will, some misuse their free will just like a thief, they know it is stealing, it is bad, but still they do it. But that is free will, they cannot check their greediness, so in spite of knowing they are doing the wrong thing by stealing and will be eventually be punished, they sill do it. They know; they have seen other thieves get punished and put into prison, everything they already know, but still they steal. Why? Misuse of free will! But unless there is the possibility to misuse free will, then there is no question of free will." (Talk on Rene Descartes philosophy with Srila Prabhupada and disciples)
Krsna never tells His devotees how to think, act or what to offer, Krsna prefers His devotees to choose for themselves how to serve Him Srila has explained to usus.
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)
Srila Prabhupada - "If God is not an individual, how did His sons become personalities?
If your father is a total emptiness, if he is not an individual, then how did you become an individual?
If your father doesn't have a uniform, how did you get one?
These questions are based on common sense and basic logic; there is nothing difficult here.
Unfortunately, people who are disappointed in material existence either try to come up with a form of God or conclude that because material form is temporary and causes a lot of suffering, God must not have any form at all.
According to their logic,since all forms in the material world are absorbent, God is likely to be formless.
The Brahma-Samhita especially emphasizes that this notion is wrong.
Ishwarah paramah krsna, sat-chit-ananda-vigraha.
God has a form, but His form is sat-chit-ananda-vigraha.
Sat means "eternal,"
chit means "knowledge,"
ananda means “bliss"
vigraha means God has a spiritual bodily form, His form is eternal and full of knowledge and bliss." (A path to perfection, Ch 3 The Science of Contemplation of God) ^^
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