Surrender to Krsna does NOT mean the individual jiva-souls must abandon their free will and become Krsna's mindless eternal puppet, as photo reveals.

To deny free will, individuality, and the eternal independent nature of all jīva-souls, is impersonalism. 

The fact is, the individual jiva-souls are unique eternal persons who always serve Krsna voluntarily. 

1 - A real genuine teacher or guru, brings his students to the top most platform, where they have learned to think for themselves as independent contributing individual persons, who have learned the highest service is voluntarily serving Krsna the way they choose to serve Him. 

2 - And the bogus teacher, guru or sannyasi, will tell his naive students how they MUST think and act under his autocratic absolute control and demands, with no need for personal unique voluntary contributions to offer.

Because he does all the thinking for his disciples, telling them what to do and how to think like a puppet master manipulates his puppets, pulling the strings the way he wants, denying any individual voluntary contributions.

Such nonsense gurus (cult leaders) threaten anyone who questions their authority and interpretations of Vedic teachings. 

Those bogus leaders who do not bring the disciple up to the real devotional platform of personal voluntary service participation, by contributing to their relationship with Krsna in a variety of possible ways, instead of being always told what to, MUST be rejected.^