What is the real meaning of free will and where does freedom of expression exist in its full potential?

What is the real meaning of free will and where does it exist in its full potential?

The fact is Krishna (God) does NOT interfere with the jiva-soul's free will and their ability to make their own choices in the Spiritual world's of Vaikuntha Planets and Goloka-Vrindavana (The Kingdoms of God).

This is where free will is expressed in its full potential by all marginal living entities (jiva-tattva souls)

Of course in the temporary decaying material worlds there is almost no free will at all because one is forced to act according to the temporary material bodily vessel they are trapped in.

Free will in its full potential, ONLY exists in the Spiritual World's of Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavan and NOT in the material worlds.

Furthermore in Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavan, Krishna NEVER forces the jiva-souls to love Him, serve Him or surrender to Him, that MUST be voluntarily if real love is to truly exist.

Srila Prabhupada - "In Bengali it is said, ‘If you catch one girl or boy, ‘You love me, you love me, you love me.’ ” Is it love? “You love me, otherwise I will kill you!’ Is that love? So Krishna does not want to become a lover like that".(Washington DC July 8, 1976)

Srila Prabhupada - "Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling. Then there is love. Not by force, no, Krishna does not want to become a lover like that, ‘You love me, otherwise I shall kill you!" (Washington DC July 8, 1976)

Srila Prabhupada - ”Unless there are two persons, where is the question of love?” (Teheran, Iran, August 9th, 1976)

Real love or Bhakti is a two way street. 

This means one must first understand they are an eternal individual person with free will, that includes an independent unique sense of self.

Understanding free will and one's eternal constitutional individual right to make their own choices and contributions in the Spiritual World, is realized through the independent act of giving, receiving and exchanging loving selfless devotional acts of kindness between individuals.

In Goloka Vrindavana there MUST always be this type of reciprocation of loving exchanges, where the jiva tattva naturally expresses their own unique personality and sense of self.

This is because each jiva soul has their own unique individuality that eternally allows them to make their own personal offerings to the Lord when serving Krishna in the Spiritual World.

Such free will is the basic make up of every marginal living entity's (jiva soul) unique independent character and personality in both Goloka-Vrindavan and Vaikuntha.

Otherwise one is just a dead stone.

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. But don't misuse your free will. But don't try to become stone either. That is not life". (August 5, 1976, New Mayapur France)

Srila Prabhupada - “Because you are Son of God you have got independence, full independence, you have acquired the quality of your father. You have got little independence. "So God does not interfere with your little independence”. (Melbourne, Australia June 25, 1974)

 

Brahman in its full potential is expressed ultimately as eternal bodily forms (Vigraha) beginning with the Bodily Form of Lord Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes. Therefore Brahman in its full potential, is NOT originally some nonsense Impersonal spiritual formless "spark", or some all-pervasive oneness known as the impersonal Brahmajyoti. Brahman's full meaning is Sat, Chit, Ananda, Vigraha or Eternity, Knowledge, Bliss and Bodily Form. Many other sangas do not understand this fact about Vigraha (Form) with their impersonal claim the jiva tattva souls originate from some nonsense impersonal inactive clear sheet of consciousness. Brahman therefore, is ultimately held together by Form and no jiva soul originates from the impersonal Brahman or Brahmajyoti. All jiva tattva individual souls ARE eternal bodily forms as their original condition, which means eternally.

The highest inderstanding of the "Absolute Truth" (Brahman) in its full potential is ultimately understood as "Personalism" expressed as perpetual "bodily Forms".

The impersonal Brahman effulgence originates from the personal Body of Lord Krishna as seen in painting below.

This is the real meaning of both Brahman and the Absolute Truth.

This means "Brahman" in its full potential, is expressed ultimately as eternal bodily form (Vigraha) beginning with Lord Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes.

Brahman in its full potential is not some nonsense Impersonal spiritual formless spark in the impersonal Brahmajyoti.

Brahman means Sat, Chit, Ananda, Vigraha meaning Eternity, Knowledge, Bliss and Form.

Many other sangas do not understand this fact about Vigraha (Form) with their impersonal claim the jiva tattva souls originate from some nonsense impersonal inactive clear sheet of consciousness.

Brahman therefore, is ultimately held together by Form, and NO jiva soul originates from the impersonal Brahman or Brahmajyoti as bogus impersonal sannyasis, gurus and scholars teach.

All jiva tattva individual souls ARE eternal bodily forms as their original condition, which means eternally.

Srila Prabhupada – ‘The next question, about the living entities falling down in this material world, they are NOT from the impersonal brahman. Existence in the impersonal brahman is also within the category of non-Krsna consciousness.

Those who are in the brahman effulgence are also in the fallen condition, so there is no question of falling down from a fallen condition.

When fall takes place, it means falling down from the non-fallen condition, so we do not accept anyone elevated to the brahman effulgence (impersonal Brahmajyoti) as actually liberated.” (Letter to Revatinandana Los Angeles 13 June, 1970)

Srila Prabhupada – “Because he falls down from Brahma-sayujya (impersonal Brahman or Brahmajyoti), he thinks that may be his origin, but he does not remember that long, long, long, long ago before that, he was with Krishna. (Letter to Madhudvisa Swami June 1972 Melbourne Australia)

Srila Prabhupada – “Existence in the impersonal Brahman (Brahmajyoti) is also within the category of non-Krsna consciousness. Those who are in the Brahman effulgence are also in the fallen condition. So there is no question of falling down from a fallen condition”. – (Letter to Revatinandana June 13, 1970)

This impermanent material creation we are presently trapped in, is NOT our real home!

All temporary material bodies we possess on our journey in the material creation, are NOT who we really are.

Our real identity is the eternal spiritual body we ARE in the Spiritual World (Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavan)

In the material creation, all temporary bodily vessels the eternal jiva soul is contained in, eventually decay and fades away.

The perpetual jiva soul is then forced to take another material body if one still has material desires.

The problem is, all material bodily vessels never last, they are in a constant state of decline, disrepair, decay, in need of constant maintenance and then eventually cease to operate (death). 

When the material body wears out, the jiva soul is forced to take another material body

We must learn to understand that this decaying material creation is NOT our real home.

This temporary material universe is the external energy of the Lord that makes up 25% of the Spiritual Sky.

One should not waste their time trying to make themselves comfortable in these temporary bodily decomposing containers we are in, in this material world.

Real happiness can NEVER be achieved while we foolishly believe we are this decaying material bodily vessel we are in.

All material bodies we see around us other souls posess are part of the material creation and therefore temporary.

All material bodily containers that the jiva souls are in, are in a constant state of decline and decay.

Nearly everyone trapped here in this material creation do not understand or comprehend that we are NOT the material bodily vessel we are in but are the soul (passenger) within it.

Therefore this material creation is NOT our real home and all material bodies are NOT who the jiva soul really is.

So now is the time to go back home back to Godhead to our REAL eternal family in Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana.

Only there will we discover our real eternal spiritual identity, body, personality and character made up of -

Sat - eternity
Chit - knowledge
Ananda - bliss
Vigraha - bodily form

Therefore the highest inderstanding of the "Absolute Truth" is ultimately "Personalism" as a perpetual "bodily form".

This means "Brahman" in its full potential, is expressed ultimately as eternal bodily forms (Vigraha) beginning with Lord Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes.

Brahman in its full potential is not some nonsense Impersonal spiritual formless spark in the impersonal Brahmajyoti.

Brahman means Sat, Chit, Ananda, Vigraha meaning Eternity, Knowledge, Bliss and Form.

Again, it is very important to understand that this material creation is NOT our real home.

Srila Prabhupada – “Existence in the impersonal Brahman (Brahmajyoti) is also within the category of non-Krsna consciousness. Those who are in the Brahman effulgence are also in the fallen condition. So there is no question of falling down from a fallen condition”. – (Letter to Revatinandana June 13, 1970)

Brahman in its full potential is not some nonsense Impersonal gathering of spiritual formless inactive individual sparks or an all-pervasive oneness in the impersonal Brahmajyoti as sannyasis and gurus in other Sangas foolishly claim is the impersonal origin of the jivatma (soul).

One has to have the proper understanding of "time" that is very different from the material movement of past, present and future, that is in the Spiritual Worlds.

In Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana time is always in the "eternal presence" that is why when one returns there it will be as if they never left.

In the other words when the jiva tattva AS their eternal perpetual Svarupa form, chooses to leave either Vaikuntha or Goloka-Vrindavana, they enter the material dreams of Maha Vishnu and are given a material body of their material desires.

Their eternal Svarupa spiritual bodily form is eternally (without beginning or end) ALWAYS a bodily form in the Spiritual World.

And is only represented as a Spiritual spark of consciousness that represents their full potential Svarupa body in Goloka-Vrindavana, when they choose to enter the material creation.

Even all 4 armed forms of the jiva tattva in the Vaikuntha planets are NOT the original form if the jiva tattva.

The original form of the jiva tattva is as the image of Krishna, two arms, two legs etc.

Srila Prabhupada had told this to Yasomatinanda dasa ACBSP in Melbourne Australia in 1974. Our original body looks like Krishna's bodily form.

However one's rasa can change.

However, one's originally svarupa 2 armed bodily is always their in the eternal presence of Krishna's pastimes.

In 1978 I tried to explain this to a Swami at his Ashram in Navadwip but the fool would not listen to understand, he keep claiming the jiva tattva came from the impersonal Brahmajyoti feature called tatastra sakti.

Prabhupada rejected such impersonalism nonsense stating we all came down from Vaikuntha millions of years ago.

The teachings of the highest knowledge of the absolute truth, is taught by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founder of ISKCON from the Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Sampridaya, which is the most advanced Sampridaya out of the excepted 4 that exist today.

Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, manifests as Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, is the combination of Radha and Krishna.

This teachings of the highest knowledge of the absolute truth, is taught by the Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Sampridaya, the most advanced Sampridaya out of the excepted 4 that exist.

Nearly all other Sampridayas have become useless and are run by mostly lazy fools in the disguise of advanced Brahmins.

These other Sampridayas have limited themselves, due to watered down philosophical knowledge of Vedanta, to a very small circle of sectarian less intelligent followers found in a few villages in India.

These other Vaishnava Sampridayas should be rejected, they are not advanced enough or blessed enough to understand that Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu has specially appeared in this Kali-yuga to offer the mercy of Radha and Krishna to EVERYONE.

Unlike these other useless Sampridayas, ISKCON's Gaudiya Madhva Sampridaya has thousands of Temples and farms all over the world on every Continent....

''God helps those who helps themselves'' that's the secret of spiritual life.

"Krishna helps those who help themselves''

All of us have to make the choice to always chant the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra every day for our spiritual growth and welfare.

That is the basic secret of advancing in spiritual life and healing the soul beyond the decaying material bodily covering it is in.

For the soul, chanting Hare Krishna Mantra is the best medicine.

However, while trapped in this material body, we find Krishna may also help us in other ways too by sending people to help us mend and better maintain our broken material bodily vessel's mind and body.

Therefore it is not that Krishna has to always personally come to help us.

In fact nearly all the time,  He will send us those who can also help us and guide us.

From a Spiritual Master, to a doctor to cure or mend our material bodily vessel, or an emergency worker to save us from a flood or other natural disasters.

Like the following story reveals.

The Drowning Man who prayed to God for help 

A fellow was stuck on his rooftop in a flood. He was praying to God for help. Soon a man in a rowboat came by and the fellow shouted to the man on the roof, "Jump in, I can save you."

The stranded fellow shouted back, "No, it's OK, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me."

So the rowboat went on.

Then a motorboat came by. "The fellow in the motorboat shouted, "Jump in, I can save you."

To this the stranded man said, "No thanks, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith."

So the motorboat went on.

Then a helicopter came by and the pilot shouted down, "Grab this rope and I will lift you to safety."

To this the stranded man again replied, "No thanks, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith."

So the helicopter reluctantly flew away.

Soon the water rose above the rooftop and the man drowned.

He went to Heaven.

He finally got his chance to discuss this whole situation with God, at which point he exclaimed,

"I had faith in you but you didn't save me, you let me drown. I don't understand why!"

To this God replied, "I sent you a rowboat and a motorboat and a helicopter, what more did you expect?"

In early February 1973 in Sydney Australia Srila Prabhupada developed an infection on his finger from a paper cut while opening mail. 

The infected finger got worse over a few days and eventually penicillin was given to Srila Prabhupada to heal the infection.

One young devotee saw that Prabhupada was constantly chanting Hare Krishna, translating Srimad Bhagavatam's 3rd Canto and preaching to the devotees.

This young boy asked Prabhupada, 

''You are always chanting Krishna's name, working late at night translating Sastra into English and preaching to the devotees, why didn't Krishna heal your finger that caused you some discomfort?''

Srila Prabhupada answered and showing great faith in Lord Krishna,

''Oh yes Krishna was so kind He immediately helped me, it was Krishna who sent the penicillin that healed my finger''.

It's not that Krishna has to personally appear and wave some magic wand, it does not work that way -

''God helps those who helps themselves'' that's the secret of spiritual life.