Is our free will infinite, just the facility to fulfill it is finite?

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It is that our free will is infinite, but the facility to fulfill that free will is finite. Like even now, we desire to fly in the sky, we desire to do many things. So we just physically can’t do it.
So now, when we talk about free will being infinite or free will being finite, we have to understand what it is that we are talking about. Is free will same as a desire? A desire can be infinite. We can have so many desires, inexhaustible desires we can have.
But free will and desire are two different things. They can be related. We use the free will to fulfill our desires.
So, the soul is here, the soul has free will, by which the soul can choose. Okay, I want this, I want that. And now, around the soul, there is the mind and around the soul, there is the world.
So the desire that you get presently, they either come from the world through our perception or they can come from the mind through our recollection. Oh, I did that. So the desires can come from either ways.
The free will of the soul is to choose the desire. Now, just having a wide variety of desires coming from our circumstances, that does not necessarily mean that the free will itself has expanded. Just like, say, in the past, there was one TV channel.
Now, there are 500 TV channels. Now, the person who is watching the TV is one. The person has 24 hours in a day or whatever it is.
So, it’s just the options have expanded. The TV may offer many channels which are like options for watching. So, for the soul, there is, there are many options that are available.
So now, our free will is simply our capacity to choose an option. Just the increase in the number of options, even if that increases up to infinity, that does not necessarily mean that our capacity to choose has become infinite. It is the options provided before us are infinite.
If we consider, even in the pure liberated state, the soul is always finite. So, the soul may desire that I want to be at 10 places. If Krishna wants, Krishna can expand the soul.
But normally, the soul is at one place. And the gopis, the Krishna can expand and they can go with Krishna to the forest. But Krishna doesn’t do that.
The gopis, when Krishna is in the forest, they experience separation from it. And there is also, there is joy in that. So, the soul by nature is limited.
And therefore, we often say that the soul’s free will is also limited. So, the free will is a resource that we have. And we can choose it in whatever way we want.
But because we are finite, so our free will also is finite. But, just as in the material world, there can be a large number of options that are presented, by which we can choose some option. And it may appear that, so much freedom I have.
But, it is not always freedom. It can become a burden also. Because, if there is too many options to choose from, we spend so much time in choosing an option.
So, for us as souls, in the spiritual world, also, we have free will. But the devotees, they will practically use their free will to serve Krishna. So, there are desire-fulfilling priests.
There are Kalpata rules. But when Yashodamai wants to cook something for Krishna, she doesn’t tell a Kalpata rule. I will provide some Sandesh.
I will give Sandesh to Krishna. She herself cooks for Krishna. Radharani herself cooks for Krishna.
Why? Because in their doing, there is the reciprocation of love. That’s why, the free will of the soul to choose, the options can be increased in the material world by Maya, the options can be increased in the spiritual world by Krishna. Krishna can arrange for a devotee to have extraordinary powers also.
But the soul is finite and correspondingly, as I will say, the soul’s free will is also finite.