If you want to dance the dance, first you have to walk the walk.
think about it; If Krsna wanted to, He could just go clickety-clik, and all our illusions would be gone in an instant, and we would be eligible to be in the spiritul sky.
Sooo... why doesn He?
Becaaause..... ; without free will, there is no identity, and without individual identity, there is no real dance.
We suffer, because without the manifestation of this suffering as a result of our use of free will, ie leaving Goloka etc., there would be no eternal ecstasy of individuals freely giving and taking love, merely an involuntary show of "mindless" totally controlled robots. By abusing our free will, we proved, as jiva class, our quality of free will, we are so great that we can leave Vaikuntha demonstrating our worth, and by then turning that decision around and voluntarily serving Godhead, we then prove our real identity and love.
An automaton or slave does not love. Only when we can leave, can it be said we are our own persons, with a pure identity. We are not forced or obliged.
Thus , it is BACK to Godhead.
"Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these Kings before us, O Arjuna, nor in the future, shall any of us cease to be"
"Jivera svarupa haya, nityera krsna dasa"
"Govindam adi purusam."
So as Krsna is the Source, and our eternal swarupa is krsna dasa, then we were never born out of some tatastha shakti baloney, that is some relativistic truth to satisfy inquiring minds of 2-d thinkers.
ps; not interested to debate the fact of being able to leave Vaikuntha any longer, having been through that many many times, but posted this as an angle of vision consistent with the whole free will debate and explanatory to a greater degree than previously popularly seen. This post is not about whether we fall or not, as it is a given that we do. It is about a variation in vision on the very purpose of the fall of the soul.
Anyway, the points of this post are the glories of the jiva, and that there is deep meaning and value in the fall of the soul from Goloka.
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