A "pure devotee of Krishna" is not interested in taking birth in wealthy and pious families on this planet, or going to the material heavenly planets, nor are they interested in even entering the eternal youthful Vaikuntha planet's of Lord Vishnu in the Spiritual World. They are ONLY interested in Krishna in Goloka Vrindavana.

A pure devotee of Krishna is not interested in the material heavenly planets nor are they interested in even the Vaikuntha planets of Lord Vishnu in the Spiritual World.

"Pure devotees of Krishna" are ONLY interested in going back to Goloka Vrindavan, the central abode in the Spiritual Sky. 

Srila Prabhupada - "You have inquired about how we leave our material body and enter into the Spiritual Sky. 

This information is very nicely explained in the Second Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, First Chapter. 

The idea is that this material universe is just like a coconut fruit, and exactly like the coconut fruit there is a covering of several material layers. 

Each layer is said to be ten times more thicker than the previous layer. 

So when a living entity is eligible and fully prepared to enter into the Spiritual Sky, he merges his different bodily elements  which are called earth, fire, water, air, and ether. 

In those coverings of material layers, the bodily elements return, and the living entity goes back to the Spiritual Sky. 

Pure devotees do not desire to enter into any one of the higher material planetary systems of this universe. 

Sometimes mystic yogis are interested to see the higher planetary systems, and before entering into the Spiritual Sky, they take advantage of seeing the higher planetary systems. 

But a pure devotee is so much eager to enter back into the Spiritual Sky, especially devotees of Krishna, so they do not try even to enter into the Vaikuntha Lokas. 

Everything depends on the intense desire of the living entity, and Krishna gives all facilities for fulfilling such desires. 

So far as we are concerned, we should always be very much eager to directly contact Krishna, following the Footprints of Lord Caitanya. (Letter to Vrndavanesvari -- Allston, Mass 26 April, 1969)

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". (George Orwell's Book "Animal Farm" based on "Anti-Utopian Satire")

Krishna is so wonderful! So NEVER let any domineering forceful devotee convience you that you MUST serve them and get their permission to follow Krishna.

Reject such nonsense bogus dictatorial devotees!

Sadly such bogus devotees, sannyasis and modern day gurus do exist who demand you do as they say and want or leave!!

That's NOT love and respecting the voluntary contributing service of a fellow devotee. 

No, loving exchanges are suppose to be based on personal character building reciprocation between two.

Loving relationships are suppose to be a "two way" street, of loving exchanges and feelings, and NOT a "one way" clever juggle of words and actions meant to force you to comply and just do what you are told to do.

Such a subtle dictatorship that demands the obedience of others to just follow and just be simple "yes" men and women, as one sannyasi GBC has managed his zone over the years, is IMPERSONALISM, and will NEVER properly spread Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's Sankirtan Movement.

George Orwell wrote a book "Animal Farm" in 1945 based on "Anti-Utopian Satire" and later made into a animated movie. 

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".

This is a quotation from George Orwell’s allegorical novel Animal Farm. 

In it the animals conspire to take control of their farm from humans, establishing ‘Animalist’ commandments to prevent the reproduction of the oppressive behaviour of humans. 

Unfortunately as time goes on that is exactly what happens and the pig Napoleon ends up changing the final rule of ‘All animals are equal’ so that it reads that ‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others’. 

This is a parody of Stalinist Russia which Orwell was criticising.

Of course we can see how this could apply to other situations in which people have set out to create their vision of a Utopian society, only for it to become another group’s dystopia. 

The way a society is structured may change but human nature does not necessarily follow suit. 

Human life is often ‘nasty, brutish and short’ and therefore we should perhaps not be surprised if time and time again we replicate previous inequalities and tyrannies with only a change of ‘players’. Such is the case in Animal Farm. So what is to be done?

Christianity has always recognised the tendency of humans to ‘fall short’ of the mark, something which it calls ‘sin’. 

At the same time it recognises that all are made in the image of God. That expresses the worth and essential lovableness of all human beings. 

All jiva soul in their full position and potential in Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavan are equal and therefore should be dignified and always treated in a two way relationship with Krishna. 

The "black pig Napoleon" that some leaders today in ISKCON are like, tried to set up a Utopian society where eveyone was suppose to work together and make a better society, but it all ended up becoming a suppressive destructive violent dictatorship.

History is full of such domineering useless leaders like Napoleon who may have had good intentions in the beginning, but in the end only brought authoritarianism, and serving out of fear of being kicked out. 

Such "so called leaders" only destroy a devotees service atitude of voluntary contributing their best out of love, to enslaving them in forced artificial "surrender" based on arrogent fear tactics.

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." (July 8, 1976)

Srila Prabhupāda – ''Unless there are two persons, where is the question of love? Love means two persons, then there is exchange, then there is 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". (August 9, 1976, Tehran)

As Prabhupada explains, Krishna NEVER forces you to surrender to Him, never forces you to love Him, that must be voluntary otherwise love can never exist.

Srila Prabhupada – "Krishna NEVER forces you to love Him, that MUST be voluntary. (Melbourne June 25, 1974)

Krishna rarely interferes with the "free will" of the jiva souls.

This is because "Free will" only exists because Krishna or God sanctions it for the purpose of allowering loving contributing exchanges in a two way relationship.

Love can never exist in a domineering one way dictatorship.

The "marginal living entity" (jiva soul) to voluntarily participate in loving exchanges with Krishna (God) and experience reciprocal lòve and sharing loving exchanges in a mutual respectful way. 

Without "free will", the jiva soul is no better than dead stone Prabhupada warns us.

However, Krishna MUST first give His sanction to the jiva-tattva souls (marginal living entities) so they have their freedom (free will) because without it Krishna knows the jiva souls could NEVER express themselves in a genuine way and make the relationship with Krishna a two way exchange of loving affection and reciprocation.

The fact is, the jiva tattva souls have ALWAYS had their freedom (free will) in Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavan for the simple reason that without free will and the ability to choose for themselves, in a voluntary way contributing way, a relationship of loving exchanges and reciprocation with Krishna, as independent individual person, is NOT possible. 

This is why Krishna ALWAYS allows "free will"

Furthermore, there was never a time where Krishna never granted freedom (free will) to the individual jiva soul because having free will enables the jiva souls to express their love for Krishna in their own unique way.

Therefore, having free will is eternally part and parcel of the of the constitutional make up of every marginal living entity (jiva-tattva soul).

Ultimately it is by Krishna's will and favour the living entities have their "free will", He does allows it, but He can also take it away if He wants too. 

This is because Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, the Supreme controller of ALL things meaning nothing can take place without His sanction and approval first.

But Krishna DOES allow "free will" for the purpose of allowing the jiva souls to have the opportunity to contribute their own unique offerings that enable them to express their own "personal" loving exchanges with Krishna as an independent thoughtful contributing individual person.

The fact is, love is NEVER a one sided, one way affair, love is ALWAYS based on a character building loving relationship of exchanges of service, expressed in a two way mood of reciprocation.

Therefore the jiva souls WITHOUT free will, are just mindless emotionless drones in Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavan, where their every thought and action is fully controlled by Narayana (Lord Vishnu) on the Vaikuntha Planets, and Krishna in Goloka Vrindavan, making them no more than dead stone Prabhupada has said.

So having "free will" is always part and parcel of the marginal living entities eternal spiritual constitution.

If Krishna had this absolute control over all marginal living entities in the Spiritual World, then the "Kingdom of God" would be an "impersonalists mindless loveless paradise"

Therefore ultimately within the most intense loving emotional exchanges between the Lord and the jiva souls, there is ALWAYS free will, there are always individual choices of expression because without free will, there can NEVER be any loving voluntary exchanges of good feelings.

If the jiva souls do not have the freedom to think for themselves independently, then how can love exist? 

No, it is not possible without "free will" because love is a personal  unique expression of independent feelings shared voluntary with one's beloved.

Sharing one's unique personality and individuality with the object of one's love, Krishna. Therefore without having "choices" in the jiva soul's relationship with Krishna, there can be no question of love.

This is because if it is just a one sided affair with no imput from the jiva soul too, then how can their be genuine love?

This idea of Krishna completely taking over the jiva soul's free will, in the name of surrender and denying any independent thoughful contributions from the jiva souls, is nonsense impersonal that many foolish bogus gurus teach their naive disciples today.

Love is only possible when it is allowed to be governed by self expression in a reciprocal relationship between "two individuals", the jiva soul and Krishna.

This loving reciprocation is always expressed in its full potential in either Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrindavan but covered in the material creation where free will is so covered over, it almost does not exist there.

And certainly not in the lower species of life in the material creation where instinct is in control and NOT free will.

Also it is foolish and total nonsense to think Krishna overides and extinguishes the jiva soul's "free will and individuality" when they enter Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrindavan.

One should understand that being part and parcel of Krishna means the jiva souls can etenally make independent choices for themselves in Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrindavan while serving of Krishna, that some immature devotees still have not understood properly.

This is because real love (prema) or devotional service, is ONLY possible when the relationship is between two.

So let's be clear, loving relationships in the Spiritual World are ALWAYS based on the reciprocation between two because love can only exist when there is a caring respectful nurturing relationship between two, between God and His disciples the jiva souls-

Srila Prabhupāda – ''Unless there are two persons, where is the question of love? Love means two persons, then there is exchange, then there is 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". (August 9, 1976, Tehran)

Srila Prabhupada – “So everyone can know that independence means one can use it properly, or one can misuse it. That is independence. If you make it one way only, that is not independence, that is force.” (Los Angeles, June 23, 1975)

Srila Prabhupada - “Unless there is a possibility of misusing our free will, there is no question of freedom.” (Dialectical Spiritualism, Critique of Descartes)

Ultimately each individual soul is a unique person who can choose for themselves to voluntarily serve Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, or ignore Him.

As Prabhupada explains, Krishna NEVER forces you to surrender to Him, never forces you to love Him, that must be voluntary otherwise love can never exist..**... End

The Sakti-tattva expansions of Krishna includes the jiva-tattva, Vishnu-tattva, Vishnu-sakti-tattva and Shiva tattva but each are in a different catagory

Krishna's "love" is based on selfless service, cooperation, loving exchanges and reciprocation. Surrender is based on this personal intimate loving mood with Krishna in a two way exchange. 

In actual fact, Krishna loves all individual free thinking independent jiva souls far greater than any of them can EVER love Him.

Krishna is like the Sun and all of His different expansions are like the sunrays, these sun-rays are called the sakti-tattva energy of Krishna. However, there are different categories of sakti energy. 

The Sakti-tattva expansions of Krishna includes the jiva-tattva, Vishnu-tattva, Vishnu-sakti-tattva and Shiva tattva.

All are Krishna's Shakti but each are in a different category. 

Vishnu-tattva and Vishnu-sakti-tattva expansions are "all-one" with Krishna, unlike the individual jiva-tattva souls and Shiva-tattva.

Shiva-tattva is in a league of his own, neither jiva-tattva, Vishnu-sakti-tattva or Vishnu-tattva 

In this way "Sakti-tattva" is divided into four categories-

1 -Vishnu-tattva, 

2 - Vishnu-sakti-tattvas, 

3 - Shiva-tattva,

4 - jiva-tattva.

So what are the categories of Krishna's "parts and parcels"?

1 - Vishnu-tattvas (93.75% of Krishna's qualities) like His older brother Balarama and Vishnu or Narayana in each Vaikuntha Planet, or Maha Vishnu, Garbhodakashayi Visnu and Paramatma who enter the material creation.

They have 60 of Krishna's 64 attributes which is 93.75%

2 - Sakti-vishnu-tattvas are similar and have 93.75% of Krishna's qualities also have 60 of Krishna's 64 attributes, like Srimati Radharani and some leading gopis and gopas and other associates and residents of Vrindavan also, of whom many appear in Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's pastimes.

None of these can ever fall down to the material world because they ARE "direct" expansions of Krishna Himself, meaning they ARE Krishna expressed in a different way according to His many pastimes. 

To be clear, both Vishnu-tattva and Vishnu-sakti-tattvas ARE Krishna Himself.

The majority of living entites are Vishnu-sakti-tattvas in the Spiritual World of Goloka-Vrindavana and the unlimited Vaikuntha planets.

3 - Shiva-tattva has 84.375% of Krishna's qualities with 55 of Krishna's 64 attributes and in a league of His own. Many scholars believe Hanuman is an incarnation of Shiva, but not all. 

There are many incarnations of Shiva however, he can never be Vishnu-tattva or Vishnu-sakti-tattva, although a Vishnu-tattva form can appear in the mood of Shiva but that is NOT Lord Shiva. 

Once Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu adapted the "mood" of Shiva, not that He is Shiva and not that Shiva is Him. This can also be the same for other Vishnu-tattva expansions that can exhibite the mood of Lord Shiva.

4 - jiva-tattvas that have 78.125% of Krishna's qualities which is 50 of Krishna's 64 attributes. The jiva tattva are the "marginal living entities". 

The individual jiva-tattvas or marginal living entities are NOT directly krishna like the above 2 categories of Vishnu-tattva and Vishnu-sakti-tattva are, and Lord Shiva is NOT Vishnu-tattva, Vishnu-sakti-tattva or jiva-tattva. 

The jiva-tattvas or marginal living entities, are independent free thinking thinking jiva-souls who have their own free will and individual sense of self in the Spiritual Planets (not fully in the material creation though)

The jiva souls in their full expression and potential in both Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavana, have their own sense of self, personality, individuality and character eternally who can choose for themselves how to serve Krishna or even not serve Him if they want.

It is important to understand in these often ignorant pioneering years of Lord Caitanya's Movement, the marginal living entities have their own "sense of individual self" that is independent and separate from Krishna's personality, therefore, they ARE their own person even though fully dependent on Krishna's energies in the Spiritual worlds.

In this way, all jiva-tattva souls have "free will" eternally as part of their marginal make up that allows them to have the ability to choose for themselves in both Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavan as part of their marginal constitution.

This means, as separate thinking living entities, they can choose to be with Krishna or Vishnu, or reject the Lord and enter the material creation if they so desire.

Such freedom ONLY fully exists in Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana.

Such full freedom does NOT exist in the material creation, as soon as the jiva-tattva soul takes a material bodily vessel and takes birth in the material creation, the jiva soul becomes trapped under the influence of material nature and controlled by basic sensual instincts of eating, sleeping, mating and defending.

And because time is divided into past, present and future, the reaction to each material body is birth, youth, middle age, old age and death.

Material time means the material creation is in a constant progression of decomposition and decay, NOTHING lasts in the material creation, everything eventually fades away into oblivion (decomposes)  

Eventually in the material creation, the trapped jiva souls in a material bodily container, becomes frustrated with the temporary nature of material life, they therefore can choose to escape the material creation and seek to enter the impersonal inactive Brahmajyoti effulgence and hover their in a dormant state for billions of years if they want.

To a Vaishnava this act is Spiritual suicide because the jiva soul is meant to be ALWAYS active, which is the constitutional nature of all marginal living entities (jiva soul).

However, merging into the impersonal Brahmajyoti as an individual unit is only temporary, even if one believes its for eternity, eventually ALL jiva souls fall down from the impersonal inactive Brahmajyoti or Brahman effulgence. 

This is because it is NOT permanent because as said above, the nature of the soul is to be active. 

So all jiva-souls who enter the impersonal Brahmajyoti eventually fall from the there and again take birth in lower species of material life and begin their evolution up to the human species of like.

They progress within nature, and move through the cycle of birth and death, back to the human species where again they can have the opportunity to realize "their full potential" as a spiritual individual personal living being under the guidance of a bonafide Spiritual Master like Srila Prabhupada.

Fortunately for most jiva souls or marginal living entities, over 90%, according to Srila Prabhupada, NEVER make that foolish choice and enter the mundane decaying material creation.

From the Book "Teachings of Lord Caitanya"

Srila Prabhupada - "There are also forms of Kṛṣṇa that are a little different from His original form, and these are called tad-ekātma-rūpa forms. These may be further divided into the vilāsa and svāṁśa forms, which in turn have many different features and can be divided into prābhava and vaibhava forms.

As far as the vilāsa forms are concerned, there are innumerable prābhava-vilāsas, headed by Kṛṣṇa's expansions as -

Vāsudeva, 

Saṅkarṣaṇa, 

Pradyumna,

Aniruddha. 

Sometimes the Lord thinks of Himself as a cowherd boy, and sometimes He thinks of Himself as Vasudeva's son, a kṣatriya prince, and this "thinking" of Kṛṣṇa is called His "pastimes." Actually, He is in the same form in His vaibhava-prakāśa and prābhava-vilāsa, but He appears differently as Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma". (Teachings of Lord Caitanya)

There is only "ONE" God, and under Him there are many administrators that manage material affairs known as demigods. They are just like the ministers in a Government under the direction of the President or Prime Minister.

Krishna's management of the material universes are just like the Prime Minister or President of a Country being the head administrator of his Government.

And under the Prime Minister or President's administration, he appoints different Ministers to manage different portfolios or different departments in Society.

Then these Ministers report to the Prime Minister about their portfolios, such as-

Department of water, 

Department of agriculture, 

Department of Forests, 

Department of defence, 

Department of Education,

Department of Health

Department of housing,

Department of  elderly etc, etc.

Similarly, just like there is ONE Prime Minister or President managing and over seeing his Ministers, there is only "ONE" God managing the material creation via His representatives called the demigods.

Therefore under Krishna (God), like the Ministers in a Government under the direction of the President or Prime Minister, the demigods represent God and manage the material Worlds under His direction.

The entire material creation is managed like this by 33 million demigods according to Srimad Bhagavatam.

Therefore there are NOT many "Gods" in India as the ignorant and fools believe.

No, there is only "ONE" God, known as Krishna, Vishnu or Narayana.

All other so called gods like Brahma, Ganesha, Indra, Vayu, Sura, Yamaraj, etc" are minor gods called demigods, like the Ministers in the President's or Prime Minister's administration or Government.

There is only "ONE" God but He does have different names in different cultures throughout the universe.

There are NOT many Gods, their is ONE God with many names, just like there is only ONE Sun in the sky but has different names in different languages in different Nations .*