Free will Vs. predicted future

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Camp: Sri Mayapur Development Meetings, Sri Mayapur House, New Delhi, India

 

> Dear spiritual father,

>

> Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Your Divine Grace. All

> glories to Srila Prabhupada.

>

> > > If Lord Krsna already knows the future, He also knows when/how and who

> > > will become his devotee and which services his devotee will do for

> > > Him. Normally there is more enjoyment when the person doesn't know the

> > > future.

> >

> > Yes so as individual jivas we have the chance to enjoy some things

> > simply due to our having limited knowledge. In other words, limited

> > knowledge is also not all bad as it allows us to experience wonderment

> > and surprise at the wonderful activities of the SPG (Supreme Personality

> > of Godhead).

> >

> So hasn't the SPG an expansion or something in which He allows Himself not

> to know the future in order to experience such enjoyment? Does He cover

> His own knowledge and abilities to some extend as in His pastimes of Rama

> in order to experience anxiety, separation from sita, anger to Ravana,

> pain from His father's death, surprise and delight for Hanuman's firing

> Lanka and so on? Or does He just pretend these things because of His

> perfect knowledge of what's really happening?

>

> Your spiritual son,

> Fernando Dias

 

Lord Sri Krishna allows Himself the opulence of getting totally ecstatic in

His pastimes. In Brihat Bhagavatamamrta this is demonstrated when Lord Sri

Krishna goes unconscious in ecstacy when Srimati Radharani goes unconscious.

When Lord Sri Krishna is unconscious the whole existence stops and is in

suspended animation since Lord Sri Krishna is the original consciousness.

Only Lord Sri Krishna has delegated the chit sakti power to Lord Balaram who

is the only person not unconscious. His duty is to wake Lord Sri Krishna up

and then again everything starts to move. How these things happen is

totally beyond our ability to understand. Just that they happen reveals

something about the mystery of Lord Sri Krishna and Lord Balaram. So to

some extent during Their pastimes the Lord can get involved within them like

Lord Sri Krishna feeling concerned for a moment how to deliver His cowherd

friends when they entered into the mouth of Aghasura. These are mystic

opulenses of the Lord. Yet immediately when the Lord wants to know more it

appears that He has full access to His unlimited potencies.

 

I hope that this finds you in good health.

 

Your ever well wisher,

 

Jayapataka Swami