Radhe Radhe. Some struggle with the teaching of anādi—the beginningless bondage of the jīva—and cry out: “That is unfair! Kṛṣṇa is cruel!” This objection dissolves once two foundational truths are understood clearly:

1) The jīva is not created: it is eternal

The jīva belongs to the taṭasthā-śakti of Śrī Bhagavān. It has no moment of “birth.” If there were a starting point of creation, one might charge God with responsibility for subsequent suffering. But the fact is: the jīva is unborn and eternal. Therefore, there is no historical moment of “design flaw” or divine mistake.

“Unborn” means: never began to exist. “Eternal” means: will never cease to exist. Together, they rule out any “manufacture.”

2) Anādi ≠ nitya: Beginningless is not endless

The bondage of the conditioned jīva is anādi—without beginning. But anādi does not mean nitya. Nitya means without end, eternal. Anādi can end—and it ends through bhakti. This is where the mercy of Śrī Guru and Bhagavān shines: bhakti ends the beginningless.

• nitya: without end (eternal)
• anādi: without beginning (but terminable through bhakti)

The Mistake Behind “Unfair!”

The complaint usually assumes a first moment: “Why did Kṛṣṇa put me here?” But anādi means: there never was such a moment to be justified. Asking “When did it begin?” is like asking “Where does a circle start?”—the question itself is misplaced.

Kṛṣṇa does not place the jīva in suffering. He frees it from suffering. He is not the author of the chain, but the hand that breaks it.

How Kṛṣṇa’s Fairness Actually Appears

• Kṛpā: He reveals bhakti, which ends the beginningless.
• Guru: He sends Śrī Guru, who shows the way and reveals the siddha-identity (siddha-prāṇālī).
• No compulsion: He does not force—He invites. Thus devotion is love, not programming.

The real question is not: “Why am I bound?”—for anādi has no historical cause. The true wonder is: “Why is a door opened for me at all, when He owes me nothing?” That is fairness in its highest form: causeless grace.

An Image to Remember

The “Unfair!” argument is like blaming the sun for the night. Night is simply part of the cycle—but the sun rises to end it. In the same way, bondage is anādi, but bhakti is the sunrise that ends it.

Bondage is beginningless, but not endless. Grace is causeless—and truly endless.

Follow the Logic

• No one falls from Vaikuṇṭha. Perfect realm—no fall (Bhagavat-sandarbha 63).
• The conditioned jīva is nitya-baddha in the sense of anādi—bound without first cause in time.
• Bhakti—bestowed through Guru—ends the anādi and restores the soul’s nitya position in loving service.

To accuse Kṛṣṇa of “unfairness” is to confuse categories. Kṛṣṇa is not the judge of an ancient sin—He is the deliverer whose mercy brings the beginningless to its end.

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See also the first part: No one falls from Vaikuṇṭha – Bhagavat-sandarbha 63