Many of today's scholars, historians and even some Vaiṣṇavas, have NOT understood the correct teachings of Bhagavad-Gita and the eternal reality of the Spiritual Worlds and the living entities.

Of course taking birth in the temporary mundane material creation is achieved by choosing to leave our real perpetual home in the Spiritual Planets.

The individual jiva-soul (jiva-tattva) NEVER originated from an "inactive" clear sheet of "dormant" consciousness, meaning they NEVER originated from an impersonal origin in the Brahman (Brahmajyoti effulgence) that many foolish religious leaders, scholars and their students believe.

Goloka-Vrindavana and Vaikuntha (The Kingdoms of God) are the original home of ALL living entities.

There is NO repeated birth and death, decay or impermanence in Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavana. 

This is because the individual jiva-souls do NOT occupy a material bodily vessel there that is always in a constant state of decay, and in need of round the clock maintenance in the material creation.

The fact is, the individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) were NEVER created and will NEVER cease to be, they have ALWAYS existed as Bhagavad-Gita As It Is tells us!

Chapter 2 Text 20 it states- 

"For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain". (BG Chapter 2 Text 20)

Also just like the Sun-disc and the sun-rays cannot exist without each other, similarly Krsna and the jiva-souls cannot exist without each other. "Nectar of Devotion" tells us. 

An important point said above is the "jiva-souls" were NEVER born or NEVER created, nor will they ever die.

Only the material bodily vessel they are in decays, wears out and eventually ceases to function forcing the jiva-soul to take another material body while in the material creation.

The individual jiva-souls are the passengers temporarily occuping the temporary material body and have ALWAYS existed.

This also means the jiva-souls never came from some nonsense "inactive clear sheet of consciousness" that impersonalist preach.

The individual jiva-souls were NEVER created because they have ALWAYS existed.

Srila Prabhupada – "There is no NEW soul. New and old are due to this material body, the soul is NEVER born and NEVER dies, so if there is no birth, how can there be new souls?'' (Letter to Jagadisa 7/9/1970).***.