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Understanding the real gyaan !!!

Revatinandana: One of my God-brothers said, 'Revatinandana, you know what Prabhupada said the other day?' I asked, 'What?' He said, 'Prabhupada said that sometimes, even after going back to Godhead, a soul can fall again.' I asked, 'Are you sure?' (I knew that in the Gita, Krishna says, 'Having returned to My transcendental abode, one never again returns to this world of miseries.' He said, 'You can ask Prabhupada yourself, but that's what he said.'

When I got a chance, I asked Prabhupada, 'Is it true that even after going back to Godhead, a soul sometimes falls again into the material energy?' Prabhupada said, "Yes." I said, 'How does that relate with the Gita's statement?' With a wise, meditative smile Prabhupada said, "'Never' means 'practically never.' The soul is Krishna's marginal energy, which means that the soul eternally has the capacity to turn away or to turn toward Krishna. Generally a soul does not fall, but if he did, he probably wouldn't do it again. However, it is not inconceivable."

People say that souls never fall from the spiritual world in the first place, that they fall from somewhere besides Krishna's association. But Prabhupada was definitely speaking about being in Krishna's abode as described in the Bhagavad-gita.



Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 1 by Siddhanta Dasa