Question: Many times, HDG Srila Prabhupada has written that as soon as the Jiva soul, by misusing his free will, becomes reluctant to serve Lord Shree Krishna in the Goloka-Vrindavan in the transcendental sky, Maya allows the Jiva soul to enter into the material world. Now, the question is: The Jiva soul becomes unwilling to serve Lord Shree Krishna inside the said Goloka-Vrindavan. Then how come Maya immediately makes him fall from there, because Maya has no place inside the Goloka-Vrindavan?
Answer by Romapada Swami:
The basic premise of your question is both common and misleading. The premise is to place the misuse of free will as an event within time – which it is not. Ontology is different altogether from Chronology, i.e. events within time.
BG 13.20 purport: “Actually the living entity is originally the spiritual part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, but due to his rebellious nature, he is conditioned within material nature. It really does not matter how these living entities or superior entities of the Supreme Lord have come in contact with material nature. The Supreme Personality of Godhead knows, however, how and why this actually took place.”
Note that Srila Prabhupada does not state WHEN.
There are two kinds of maya – yogamaya and mahamaya. Mahamaya is an expansion of yogamaya, and both these mayas are different expressions of the Lord’s potencies. As stated in Bhagavad-gita, the Lord appears through His internal potencies (atma-mayaya). So, in the spiritual world it is the internal potency of the Lord which works under Krsna’s direction.
When you take shelter of Krsna, you again come under the shelter of his yogamaya potency.
