This allows diversity and an unlimited range of variegations in the devotee's personal service to Krsna, that is forever expanding their progressive independent contributions to Krsna or Visnu in the Kingdom of God (the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana)
This infinitely expands their voluntary service participation, personal contributions and inspiration in pleasing Krsna in an unlimited variety of unique ways in their association with Krsna in His never ending expanding blissful pastimes (lilas) in the spiritual world.
The unique distinctive relationship between Krsna and His individual devotees is eternally a two-way exchange of loving exchanges, reciprocation and voluntary service that is never possible in a one-sided forced impersonal surrender.
This is why genuine loving exchanges and reciprocation can only be expressed when there are two persons, and never be expressed by just one individual.
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." (Lecture SB, Canto 2 Ch 1 text 3, Paris, June 12, 1974)
Krsna allows the individual jiva-souls (His devotees) to have their free will because He wants to see distinctive voluntary independent expressions of love towards Him from His devotee's personal choices with their own idiosyncratic thoughtful contributions on their own.
Krsna wants His devotees to be creative in their independent offerings, friendship and service to Him. In other words, Kṛṣṇa wants a two-sided open reciprocal cooperative contributing relationship of loving exchanges with His intimate devotees, where they can voluntarily express themselves as they choose, in their own unique way, as separate independent individuals from Krsna, yet simultaneously fully dependent on Him due to being His parts and parcels.
This means the devotees of Krsna should never surrender to a mindless puppetry “one-sided" dominating relationship, where the devotee is ordered what to think, and how to serve without being encouraged to think for themselves with their own unique distinctive personal voluntary contributions. Such a one-sided impersonal relationship is actually a loveless dictatorship and is impersonalism!
Srila Prabhupada – "Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling, then there is love. It never achieved by force, no, Krsna does not want to become a lover like that - ‘You love me, otherwise I shall kill you!" (Lecture, Washington DC July 8, 1976)
As said above, real love (service) is voluntary and can never exist on a one-way path because love can only exists when two are involved in voluntary reciprocal contributing loving exchanges.
Krsna allows free will (voluntary self-expression) so His devotees can experience their own distinctive individuality by making their own offerings or contributions to Him in a way that forever expands loving exchanges and reciprocation in a two-way transition and never in a one-sided non-contributing loveless dictatorship.
In this way, free will only eternally exists for Krsna's devotees because Krsna wants a "two-way" contributing open relationship with His devotees, therefore Krsna always encourages self-expression and unique personal contributions from His dear devotees that make the relationship a two-sided exchange of loving emotions.
The relationship with Krsna must be this way because love can never be experienced with just one, there must two, an open two-sided reciprocal relationship of mutual returns, cooperation and respect.
Srila Prabhupada - "In the spiritual world service is always voluntary, some devotees desire to serve Krsna as flower; they become flower voluntary, and can change from flower to unlimited forms in the spiritual world including human form if the devotee desires, that is spiritual life, it is always voluntary with no restrictions. If some devotee wants to serve Krsna as cow, he serves Krsna as cow, as calf, as flower, as plant, as water, as ground, field, or as father, as mother, as friend, as beloved, anything. It is inconceivable, yet a fact." (SB, Canto 6 Ch 1, Melb, Australia May 20, 1975)
Krsna gave His devotees their freedom (free-will) so they can voluntarily choose to serve Kṛṣṇa in unlimited creative ways, or even reject Him if they choose, this will only prove Krsna has allowed free will.
Ultimately, this is all Krsna's creation and how He manages it is entirely up to Him due to being the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes as Bhagavad Gita As It Is explains.
However, the devotees always have their freedom of self expression too that Krsna allows so they can express themselves in their own unique distinctive way, it must be this way because Krsna knows if He never gave His devotees (the individual jīva-souls) their independence (free will to express themselves in their own distinctive way), then genuine loving exchanges, affection and reciprocation in a open two-way exchange, could never exist, making Krsna no different from an impersonal puppet master who manipulates and controls everything his surrounding puppets do and think.
Such a mindless dictatorial existence without free will, which means having the unique independent ability of self-expression that allows one to personally choose their own voluntary offerings to contribute to Krsna, is dangerous impersonalism.
Therefore, Krsna's devotees (individual jiva-souls) are eternal independent thinking thoughtful spiritual living persons as an eternal spiritual bodily form, who are indestructible and can never be destroyed, terminated, cut into pieces or extinguished as Bhagavad Gita As It Is chapter two explains.
On the Vaikuntha planets and in Goloka-Vrindavana, personal voluntary expressions of loving exchanges between Krsna and the individual jiva-souls, are made possible due to free will.
These voluntary creative contributions from the individual jiva-souls are eternally encouraged by Krsna for the purpose of adding flavour, variety and mystery to their intimate relationship.
This means the Kingdom of God is not a "one-sided" dominating impersonal dictatorship devoid of free will (voluntary service and personal contributions)
Such a one-sided dictatorial relationship does not allow personal contributions or offerings to God (Krsna) that are only found in a two-way relationship that expands, enriches and flavours the devotees personal voluntary service to Krsna.
In an impersonal one-sided relationship, where a devotee is always told what to do, how to think and how to act, only denies the devotee's their individual God given ability of self expression that provides unique contributions and voluntary loving exchanges.
As said above, love or service is never a "one-sided" affiliate of total supremacy or pre-eminence in the spiritual world because for love to flourish and expand, there must be two.
Genuine loving relationships between Kṛṣṇa and His devotees are based on voluntary reciprocal exchanges and personal contributions between two, love can never be experienced by just one.
The devotees (individual jiva-souĺs) have their own idiosyncratic choices on how they want to serve and please Krsna too, or they can even choose to reject Krsna if they want, this is the consequence of having free will.
Loving reciprocation is only possible on a two-way street between two, with each contributing to the relationship's expansion of nectarine mellows.
The words reciprocation and loving exchanges only has meaning when there are two involved, not one.
The individual jiva-souĺs (devotees) have their choices too, even if that sometimes means rejecting Krsna and choosing to do their own thing in the temporary material world.
The individual devotees in their full potential on the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka Vrindavana, are forever positively re-inventing themselves by always choosing how to continuously increase their variety of devotional voluntary service to Krsna or Visnu.
This is achieved by forever positively discovering a variety of ways to expand their individual expressions of personal offerings and affection to Krsna in their perpetual unique relationship with Him.
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.” (Lecture SB, Canto 2 Ch 1 text 3, Paris, June 12, 1974)
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)
The relationship with Krsna in the spiritual world (The Kingdom of God) is never a “one-way” forced unproductive affinity that denies personal contributions (impersonalism).
The individual devotee's relationship with Krsna is always based on "free will," this allows a variety of unique creative voluntary offerings of service to Krsna, only then can genuine loving exchanges exist.
Śrīla Prabhupāda – “Love means two-persons, 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, then these things must be there.” (Aug 9, 1976, Tehran)
Personal voluntarily self-chosen contributions offered by Krsna's devotees, are different from Krsna's shower of loving affection to His devotees, putting the relationship on a two-way street of loving exchanges which means the individual jiva-souls have their own unique independent thinking and chosen actions.
The relationship between Krsna and His devotees are eternally a two-way mystery of loving exchanges that only further enriches, intensifies and expands loving expressions and affection between the devotees and Krsna.
Such personal unique distinctive contributions from the individual devotee's independent expressions, coming from their independent execution of free will, forever expands their personal ability to make voluntary offerings to Krsna in the spiritual world that forever increase their loving emotions for Krsna in a healthy two-way exchange of loving reciprocation.**#
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