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On 14 Jul 1999, Payonidhi Dasa wrote:

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> Well please let me know what reference you are talking about.

 

 

 

This is but one of a handful I came up with from a quick database search.

 

I think some of my recent posts haven't made it to wherever they were supposed

to be going. No loss, no doubt.

 

 

 

Room Conversation Los Angeles, June 23, 1975

 

Dr. John Mize: Did all the souls that were in the spiritual sky fall out of

the spiritual sky at once or at different times, or are there any souls that

are always good, they're not foolish, they don't fall down?

 

Prabhupada: No, there are... Majority, 90%, they are always good. They never

fall down.

 

Dr. John Mize: So we're among the 10%.

 

Prabhupada: Yes. Or less than that. In the material, whole material world all

the living entities they are... Just like in the prison house, there are some

population, but they are not majority. The majority of the population, they

are outside the prison house. Similarly, majority of living being, part and

parcel of God, they are in the spiritual world. Only a few falls down.

 

Dr. John Mize: Does Krsna know ahead of time that a soul is going to be

foolish and fall?

 

Prabhupada: Krsna? Yes, Krsna may know because He is omniscient.

 

Dr. John Mize: Are more souls falling all the time?

 

Prabhupada: Not all the time. But there is the tendency of fall down, not for

all, but because there is independence... Everyone is not liking to misuse the

independence. The same example: Just like a government constructing a city and

constructs also prison house because the government knows that somebody will

be criminal. So their shelter must be also constructed. It is very easy to

understand. Not that cent percent population will be criminal, but government

knows that some of them will be. Otherwise why they construct prison house

also? One may say, "Where is the criminal? You are constructing..." Government

knows, there will be criminal. So if the ordinary government can know, why God

cannot know? Because there is tendency.

 

Dr. John Mize: The origin of that tendency is...?

 

Prabhupada: Yes.

 

Dr. John Mize: From where does that tendency come?

 

Prabhupada: Tendency means the independence. So everyone can know that

independence means one can use it properly, one can misuse it. That is

independence. If you make it one way only, that you cannot become fall down,

that is not independence. That is force. Therefore Krsna says, yathecchasi

tatha kuru. "Now you do whatever you like."

 

Jayatirtha: Because Krsna is independent, therefore the part and parcels...

 

Prabhupada: Yes. Part and parcel must have a little portion of independence.

Qualitatively, part and parcel means... Just like you take a drop of water

from the sea. The, all the chemical composition is there in the drop. So Krsna

is fully independent. So we living entities we are drop. Still, the

independence quality is there in minute quantity.