Everything there is, known or unknown, within or without, all exist within Krsna. In this way Krsna is everything and nothing exists without Him.
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be." (BG, Ch 2 text 12)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change." (BG, Ch 2 text 13)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed."(BG, Ch 2 text 14)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O best among men [Arjuna], the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation." (BG, Ch 2 text 15)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent [the material body] there is no endurance and of the eternal [the soul] there is no change. This they have concluded by studying the nature of both." (BG, Ch 2 text 16)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul." (BG, Ch 2 text 17)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - “The material body of the indestructible, immeasurable and eternal living entity is sure to come to an end; therefore, fight, O descendant of Bharata." (BG, Ch 2 text 18)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Neither he who thinks the living entity the slayer nor he who thinks it slain is in knowledge, for the self slays not nor is slain." (BG, Ch 2 text 19)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain." (BG, Ch 2 text 20 "corrected" 1983 edition)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O Pārtha, how can a person who knows that the soul is indestructible, eternal, unborn and immutable kill anyone or cause anyone to kill?" (BG, Ch 2 text 21)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones." (BG, Ch 2 text 22)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind." (BG, Ch 2 text 23)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same." (BG, Ch 2 text 24)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "It is said that the soul is invisible, inconceivable and immutable. Knowing this, you should not grieve for the body." (BG, Ch 2 text 25)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "If, however, you think that the soul [or the symptoms of life] is always born and dies forever, you still have no reason to lament, O mighty armed." (BG, Ch 2 text 26)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "One who has taken his birth is sure to die, and after death one is sure to take birth again. Therefore, in the unavoidable discharge of your duty, you should not lament." (BG, Ch 2 text 27)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation?"(BG, Ch 2 text 28)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Some look on the soul as amazing, some describe him as amazing, and some hear of him as amazing, while others, even after hearing about him, cannot understand him at all." (BG, Ch 2 text 29)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O descendant of Bharata, he who dwells in the material body can never be slain. Therefore, you need not grieve for any living being." (BG, Ch 2 text 30)
Srila Prabhupada – "There are no new souls, new and old are due to this material body, but the jiva-soul is never born and never dies, so if there is no birth, how can there be new souls?" (Letter to Jagadisa dasa, 9 July 1970)
Nothing can operate or exist separate from Krsna, not even a blade of grass can move without the will of the Lord because Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, cause of all causes and proprietor of all things.
So, how does free will fit into Krsna ultimate control of all things? And further more, how is it that the individual jiva-souls can express themselves independently from Krsna when ultimately all of Krsna's creation is under His control?
Paradoxically the individual jiva-souls have always been able to express themselves in their own unique distinctive way under Krsna's blessing.
Krsna allows this independent nature just so His devotees can voluntarily act independently, creating a two-sided relationship with Krsna. This means the individual jiva-souls can act in anyway they choose, for or against the desires of Kṛṣṇa.
In this way, the individual jiva-souls can always express themselves in their own unique distinctive way, separate from being controlled by Krsna the way a puppet master controls his puppets.
Krsna allows this freedom because he knows a one-sided none contributing dictatorial relationship is loveless impersonalism. This is why Krsna allows a two-way constructive relationship based on voluntary service
Krsna knows that without this freedom of expression His devotees have, there can never be any loving exchanges, voluntary cooperative or reciprocation between Kṛṣṇa and His devotees.
Even though Krsna is the Supreme controller, without allowing the individual jiva-souls to experience their own unique freedom of choice, actions and thoughts, His Kingdoms of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana,l would be loveless cold impersonal paradises
Love can never be experienced or shared with just one, not even by Krsna or Visnu, love is only possible between two, this is why Krsna created Srimati Radharani, just so He is never alone.
The full spiritual expression and potential in the spiritual world (Visnu's unlimited Vaikuntha planets, and Krsna’s central planet Goloka-Vrindavana) are experienced in a "two-sided" cooperative contributing exchange of voluntary service. In this way, a unique 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 that 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 socialism.
This means the individual jiva-souls (devotees) in the spiritual world can always express themselves as they please, being separate from Krsna's overwhelming authoritarian control yet always part and parcel of His universal creation.
As explained above, Krsna allows the independent unique thoughts and actions from the devotees, just so they can always openly express themselves independently from Krsna in their own unique distinctive way in unlimited personal ways that forever expands tge spiritual world with an eternally increasing number of Krsna's pastimes (Lilas).
Freedom of self-expression (free-will) must exist in the spiritual world by Kṛṣṇa to permit and encourage His devotees to voluntarily express themselves in their own particular service that they choose to do, and not chosen for them by Krsna.
Each individual jiva-soul eternally has their own unique distinctive independent personality that allows them to forever voluntarily expand their variety of devotional contributions to Krsna.
Therefore, the individual devotees can always 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 His devotees their freedom of expression or being able to make their own voluntary contributions eternally, then their existence as a unique distinctive meaningful individual devotee 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 (slave) or non-contributing puppet ("yes" men and women), who are told what to do and think, are practising mindless impersonalism which is spiritual suicide to a genuine Vaisnava devotee of Kṛṣṇa.
The natural full devotional potential of voluntary contributions from the individual jiva-souls, does not allow them to be "mindless brainless puppets" explained above who are always controlled by the dictates and demands of an impersonal puppeteer.
Free will even means one can choose to accept or reject Krsna, otherwise the concept of free will and loving exchanges and reciprocation 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 that includes the individual jiva-souls having their free will.
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 that He allows, for the purpose of having a "two-sided" open relationship between Kṛṣṇa and the individual jiva-souls.
Krsna allows it to be be this way just to create diversities and encourage a voluntary constructive contributions from the individual jiva-souls in their relationship with Kṛṣṇa.
If it was all a "one-way" dictatorship without any diversity and independent voluntary contributions (offerings) coming from the individual jiva-soul, then it is impossible for loving exchanges in a two-way exchange to exist.
Therefore, even though Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, and all individual jīva-souls are fully dependent on Krsna, the paradox here is each individual jiva-soul always have their unique distinctive freedom of thought and choices too eternally.
Free will only has meaning when the individual jiva-souls can express themselves 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 between the individual jiva-souls and Kṛṣṇa, both contributing to the relationship of nectarine mellows by serving each other, real loving exchanges can only be expressed and exist under these conditions.
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!
As said above, free will only has meaning when the individual jiva-souls can express themselves in an open "two-sided" loving voluntary affair without being manipulated, used or bullied to obey.
Also being able to have the choice 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 we have free will." (Philosophy Discussions with Rene Descartes)
Srila Prabhupada – "So everyone can know that independence means one can use it properly, or one can misuse it, that is independence (free will). If you make it one way only, that you can never fall down from the spiritual world, that is not independence (free will), that is force." (Mayapur, June 20, 1973)
Having free will (freedom of expression) is the eternal constitutional make up of every marginal living entity (individual jiva-soul), and is the foundation of their voluntary contributing relationship of unique distinctive service to Krsna.
Srila Prabhupāda – ''Love means a relationship between "two persons", then there is exchange, then there is genuine 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 individual jiva-souls to have this "freedom of expression," it is really so He can experience a unique two-sided relationship with the individual jiva-souls, allowing them to contribute to the relationship.
Krsna at all times has eternal loving affection for His individual jiva-soul expansions (devotees), and He allows them to voluntarily express their unique expression to Him too in their own independent way.
Krsna loves His devotees far more than they can ever love Him.
Krsna allows free will just to see what His devotees choose to offer Him without any pressure or force from Him.
The individual jiva-souls (devotees) are given the freedom to voluntary make their own choices, decisions and unique contributions to Krsna or ignore Him if they choose.
Krsna always remains the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes who is in control of everything. Paradoxically this means everything that happens is Kṛṣṇa's divine plan, including what the individual jiva-souls do with their free will.
In other words, whatever choices they make, Krsna already knows its outcome because He is behind everything that happens, and everything there is, is part of Krsna. This is not just philosophy, this is realizations.
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, in this case means Srimati Radharani and Her unlimited expansions in the spiritual world. Those expansion of Radharani are known as "Visnu-sakti-tattva" expansions of Krsna who are technically "Viṣṇu-tattva" expansions of Krsna (non-different from Krsna playing a different role in His own unlimited pastimes.
3 - Siva-tattva, the mysterious Lord Siva and his various expansions who prefere to stay in the temporary material world.
4 - Jiva-tattva, the individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities), known as the separated living entities from Krsna who can choose to stay in the spiritual world with Krsna and Visnu, or choose to enter the temporary material world and artificially imitate Krsna by attempting to be the controller of their destiny.
Each eternal individual jiva-soul is a unique one of a kind independent person as a spiritual bodily form, who have their own unique distinctive personality separate from Krsna's Personality and the other individual jiva-souls.
As said above, loving devotional exchanges (service) and all unique offerings to Krsna are always is based on a "two-way" voluntary exchange of personal cooperative and feelings that manifest as loving acts of devotion between Kṛṣṇa and His devotees, who go on too voluntarily contribute their own distinctive expressions (offerings) to Him which is the real meaning of surrendering to Krsna's will, which never denies the free will and voluntary offerings from each individual jiva-soul (devotees).
On the other hand, when free will is ignored and the individual jiva-souls are forced to act under a one-sided domineering impersonal dictatorship that denies personal voluntary cooperative contributions of reciprocal exchanges and feelings, will only leave the individual jiva-souls feeling no better than dead useless stone Srila Prabhupada has explained.
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 don't offer you anything in return, 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).
Srila Prabhupada - "In the spiritual world the bodily appearance of the devotee (individual jiva-soul) is always a voluntary choice, appearing as what ever form they choose so they can please Krsna." (Lecture SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 1-4, Melb, Australia May 20, 1975)
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)
All the individual jiva-souls (devotees) in the spiritual world on the Vaikuntha planets of Visnu, and within Krsna’s central Abode of Goloka Vrindavana, can always express themselves in their own unique distinctive way in a spiritual bodily form they choose to be.
In this way, they voluntarily offer to Krsna and Visnu what they choose to offer based on their free will and never impersonally forced or demanded by the Lord.
Such unique personal contributions they always voluntary choose that eternally makes the relationship with Krsna a two-sided open affair of cooperation and reciprocation.
In the spiritual world (anti-matter), all relationships with Krsna are equally blissful to each other, just like one may like a carnation flower, while others may choose to like a rose flower.
So whether one's spiritual bodily form is human, a blade of grass, a tree, as bird or a bench, spiritually they are equal individual jiva-souls.
Although, the original spiritual bodily form of every individual jiva-soul is like Krsna's two armed form Prabhupada has explained.
The full potential and eternal original feature (individual spiritual bodily form) of all marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls), is a two-arm form like Krsna's Body.
The individual jiva-souls were never created, they are beginningless and endless like Krsna as explained above in Chapter two of Bhagavad Gita As It Is.
Srila Prabhupada - "God is also human form, "man is made after the shape of God," so Kṛṣṇa is also like human form, two hands, two legs." The human form is also the full manifestation of the individual jiva-soul." (Melb, Australia May 20, 1975)
Srila Prabhupada - "The individual jiva-soul is not formless; it has got form (spiritual bodily form), the individual jiva-souls always have form and is expressed as hands, legs, heads, everything. But with our material eyes at the present, our gross eyes, we cannot see these facts; therefore we foolishly believe the individual jiva-souls have no form." (Based on lecture, BG, Ch 2 Text 14, Mexico, Feb 14, 1975)
Devotee – "Is the original spiritual bodily form of the individual jiva-soul a human form?"
Srila Prabhupada – "Yes, human form, God is also human form, man is made after the shape of God, I think that is in the Bible also, is it not? So God is also like human form. Here you see Krsna, two hands, two legs."
Hari-sauri dasa – "How do we understand, then, that there are peacocks and flowers and trees in the spiritual world? Are these not eternal forms?"
Srila Prabhupada – [describing material form first] "Yes, they are more covered, just like if you cover your body with blanket, the hands and legs are invisible. But you are not the blanket. So the trees and plants, they are more covered. They are not in full manifestation. The human form is the full manifestation of the soul."
Hari-sauri dasa - "Are they covered in the spiritual world?"
Srila Prabhupada - "Not in the spiritual world, the appearance of the devotee (individual jiva-soul) is voluntary, in what ever form they choose [as explained above] (SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 1-4, Melb, Australia May 20, 1975)
Real loving exchanges or service can only exist in a "two-way" reciprocal relationship of voluntary service and never under a "one-sided" mindless totalitarian manipulative dictatorship.
Only free will allows the individual jiva-souls to voluntarily participate in loving devotional exchanges with Krsna and Visnu, and contribute to the relationship with the Lord in their own unique way. Without free will there can never be loving exchanges.
Such voluntary service deepens one's exchanges and reciprocation with Krsna through personal expressions that enhances, enriches and adds mystery and a variety of flavours to one's unique relationship with Krsna in the spiritual world.
Krsna allows the eternal individual jiva-souls (devotees) in the spiritual world to continually re-invent themselves with their own voluntary distinctive unique personal contributions, this allows diversity and mystery in the relationship, meaning there is an unlimited range of variegatedness in one's personal service offerings to Krsna that is forever expand their progressive independent contributions.
This infinitely expands the individual jiva-souls voluntary participation, personal contributions, cooperation and service in an unlimited variety of distinctive unique ways in Krsna's never ending expanding blissful pastimes (lilas)
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)
Personalism is only possible between two individual persons, in a "two-way" voluntary exchange of feelings and emotions. Only then does the relationship expand and enriches the relationship with an array of multiple affection of loving, exchanges between the individual jiva-souls (devotees) and Krsna.
Without free will the individual jiva-soul would never have the vision to intelligently voluntarily contribute in their relationship with Kṛṣṇa, and increase and expand one's awareness of who they are as a contributing independent distinctive unique individual jiva-soul.
Having free will therefore, is the eternal constitutional make up of every marginal living entity (individual jiva-soul), and the foundation for all individual jiva-soul's selfless contributions to Krsna or their choice to ignore Kṛṣṇa.
However, this also means one can reject Krsna if they choose, otherwise free will has no meaning.
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 can choose to act sometimes wrongly, that means we have free will."
Hayagriva dasa - "A man may know better but still chooses to act wrongly."
Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, but that is free will, he misuses his free will, just like a thief, he knows that his stealing is wrong, it is bad, but still he does it, that is due to free will. He cannot check his greediness, so in spite of knowing he is doing the wrong thing, still he will be eventually punished. He knows this because he has seen other thieves get punished for their wrong doing and put in prison. Everything he knows but still he steals. Why? Because of misusing their free will. However, unless there is the choice of misusing their free will, there is no question of having free will." (Excerpt from: Discussions on Rene Descartes philosophy)÷#÷
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