The jiva-souls (marginal living entities) are eternal PERSONS as a spiritual bodily form like Krsnas Body, and whose eternal home is the spiritual world.

Kṛṣṇa’s first expansion is Balarama from whom all Visnu-tattva expansions manifest however, all manifestions including the jiva-souls, are beginningless and endless because they are eternally part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. 

And for Kṛṣṇa to experience loving relations with a women, He divided Himself into two, and that is how Radharani appears. However, the paradox is both are eternal because Radharani is eternally part of Kṛṣṇa.

Kṛṣṇa as His original form NEVER leaves Vṛndāvana in the spiritual world. 

All of Krsna’s pastimes in the material creation including killing demons, are carried out by Krsna's Visnu-tattva expansion. In the spiritual world no demons exist or are killed by Krsna and Balarama. 

Srila Prabhupada - "When Kṛṣṇa kills the demons outside Vṛndāvana, He is not original Kṛṣṇa; He is Vāsudeva. Vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti (BG 7.19). When Kṛṣṇa is acting universally, that is Vāsudeva. The original Kṛṣṇa is always in Vṛndāvana and never leaves."  (Morning Walk, July 17, 1975, San Francisco)

Srila Prabhupada - "The original Lord Kṛṣṇa never leaves Goloka Vṛndāvana. All the plenary expansions are one and the same Viṣṇu-tattva, and there is no difference in Their potency." (SB, Canto 3 Ch 1 Text 34)

Srila Prabhupada - "Kṛṣṇa is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Baladeva (Balarama) is Kṛṣṇa's immediate expansion. Because Kṛṣṇa NEVER leaves Vṛndāvana, all the forms of Kṛṣṇa that appear elsewhere are His expansions." (BG, As It Is Ch 10 Text 37)

Also, the intense separation Radharani and the gopis feel for Kṛṣṇa, only happens in the facsimile Vrindavana in the material world and not in the spiritual world. The word Vaikuntha means "without anxiety" therefore how could there be demons there? And how could the gopis ever feel separation from Kṛṣṇa there? After all Krsna NEVER leaves Goloka Vrindavana.

Jayatīrtha - "If the original Kṛṣṇa is always in Vṛndāvana, then why do the gopīs and Rādhārāṇī feel separation from Him?"

Srila Prabhupada - "That is here, in this material world. In the spiritual world Kṛṣṇa does not leave."

Jayatīrtha - "Oh."

Srila Prabhupāda - "And even in the material world, Kṛṣṇa superficially has gone to Mathurā, but He has captured the heart of the gopīs. So He is not leaving. Gopīs are enjoying Kṛṣṇa by separation. That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's feeling, how He is appreciating Kṛṣṇa by separation." (Morning Walk, July 17, 1975, San Francisco)

The full potential and original feature of all marginal living entities (jiva-souls) is a two arm form like Krsna's Bodily Form.

Srila Prabhupada - "The human form is the full manifestation of the jiva-soul." (Melb, May 20, 1975)

Srila Prabhupada - "The spirit soul is NOT formless; it has got form, the spirit soul always has form and is expressed as hands, legs, heads, everything. But with our material eyes at the present, our gross eyes, we cannot see these facts; therefore we foolishly believe the jiva-souls have no form." (Lecture on BG 2.14 - Mexico, Feb 14, 1975)

Devotee – "Is the original body of the spirit soul a human form?"

Srila Prabhupada – "Yes, human form. God is also human form. "Man is made after the shape of God." I think there is in the Bible. Is it not? So God is also like human form. Here you see Krsna, two hands, two legs."

Hari-sauri – "How do we understand, then, that there are peacocks and flowers and trees in the spiritual world? Are these not eternal forms?"

Srila Prabhupada – "[describing material form first]: Yes. They are more covered. Just like if you cover your body with blanket, the hands and legs are invisible. But you are not the blanket. So the trees and plants, they are more covered. They are not in full manifestation. The human form is the full manifestation of the soul."

Hari-sauri - "They are covered in the spiritual world?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Not in the spiritual world. There that is voluntary. Some devotee wants to serve Krsna as flower; they become flower there. If I want to be a flower I shall lie down at the lotus feet of Krsna, he becomes flower, voluntarily, and he can change his, from flower to human body. That is spiritual life. There is no restriction. If some devotee wants to serve Krsna as cow, he serves Krsna as cow, as calf, as flower, as plant, as water, as ground, field, or as father, as mother, as friend, as beloved, anything. It is inconceivable, yet a fact." (SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 1-4 Melb, May 20, 1975)

Srila Prabhupāda - "The impersonal conception of the Supreme is so detrimental to the path of devotional service that it is very difficult to associate with the stubborn nondevotees, who always think in terms of material conceptions. Impersonalists always think backwards. They think that because there is form in matter, spirit should be formless; because in matter there is sleep, in spirit there cannot be sleep; and because the sleeping of the Deity is accepted in arcanā worship, the arcanā is māyā. All these thoughts are basically material. To think either positively or negatively is still thinking materially. Knowledge accepted from the superior source of the Vedas is standard." (SB, Canto 3 Ch 9 text 21, Purport)

Srila Prabhupada - "Each person is eternal. Because the Lord says that He existed as a person before the creation (agre) and will also exist after the annihilation, the Lord is a person eternally. 

Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura therefore quotes these verses from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.9.13-14)-

na cāntar na bahir yasya

na pūrvaṁ nāpi cāparam

pūrvāparaṁ bahiś cāntar

jagato yo jagac ca yaḥ

taṁ matvātmajam avyaktaṁ

martya-liṅgam adhokṣajam

gopikolūkhale dāmnā

babandha prākṛtaṁ yathā

The Personality of Godhead appeared in Vṛndāvana as the son of mother Yaśodā, who bound the Lord with rope just as an ordinary mother binds a material child. There are actually no divisions of external and internal for the form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead- (sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha [Bs. 5.1), but when He appears in His own form the unintelligent think Him an ordinary person. 

Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam: (BG 9.11) although He comes in His own body, which never changes. mūḍhas, the unintelligent, think that the impersonal Brahman has assumed a material body to come in the form of a person. Ordinary living beings assume material bodies, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead does not. 

Since the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the supreme consciousness, it is stated herein that saṁjñāna-mātram, the original consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, was unmanifested before the creation, although the consciousness of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the origin of everything.

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be." (BG, Ch 2 Text 12)

Thus the Lord's person is the Absolute Truth in the past, present and future. In this regard, Madhvācārya quotes two verses from the Matsya Purāṇa:

nānā-varṇo haris tv eko

bahu-śīrṣa-bhujo rūpāt

āsīl laye tad-anyat tu

sūkṣma-rūpaṁ śriyaṁ vinā

asuptaḥ supta iva ca

mīlitākṣo 'bhavad dhariḥ

anyatrānādarād viṣṇau

śrīś ca līneva kathyate

sūkṣmatvena harau sthānāl

līnam anyad apīṣyate

After the annihilation of everything, the Supreme Lord, because of His sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1), remains in His original form, but since the other living entities have material bodies, the matter merges into matter, and the subtle form of the spirit soul remains within the body of the Lord. The Lord does not sleep, but the ordinary living entities (jiva-souls) remain asleep until the next creation. 

This because the fallen jiva-souls are still "outside" of the spiritual world's of the Vaikuntha planets, and Goloka-Vrindavana. 

Their real home and spiritual bodily form eternally exists in the spiritual world. 

Therefore, being "outside" the spiritual world means they are trapped in the temporary material world, or merged as an individual dormant unit [spark] in the impersonal Brahmajyoti. The opulence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead remains as it is in the spiritual world; only in the material world is everything dissolved. 

Brahma-līna, merging into the Supreme Brahman (Brahmajyoti), is not actual līna, or annihilation, for the subtle form remaining in the Brahman effulgence will return to the material world after the material creation and again assume a material form. 

This is described as bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate (BG 8.19). 

When the material body is annihilated, the spirit soul remains in a subtle form, which later assumes another material body. 

This is true for the conditioned souls, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead remains eternally in His original consciousness and spiritual body." (SB, Canto 6 Ch 4 text 47, Purport)

Devotee - "I want to know exactly what is the form of the body. If the spirit soul (jiva-soul) is nonmaterial, what is the form?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "There is form. Just like this body is compared with the dress. Now, just like in your present material form you have got hand; therefore your coat has got hand, you have got leg; therefore your pant has got leg. 

Therefore, it is to be assumed that the spirit soul has got form, and it has developed into hands, legs, heads, everything. It is not formless; it has got form. But with our material eyes at the present, gross eyes, we cannot find it; therefore we say it has no form." (Lecture BG, Ch 2 text 14 Mexico, Feb 14, 1975)

Devotee - "Śrīla Prabhupāda, you state that spirit soul has form."

Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes."

Devotee - "Otherwise, how is the material body grown to accommodate the spirit soul? Just like a shirt has no form, but when it's put on the body, it takes the shapes of the body. Does that mean that the spirit soul has the shape of the body that is accommodating it?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes, you have got body, shape, very minute shape. That we cannot see, we cannot measure. Therefore in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, anumeyam, hat is that? You cannot measure. What is that word used? Aprameyam. Aprameyam. You cannot measure. But it has a form. 

How, what is the length and breadth of that form, that is not in your power. In your power, but not materially. 

That is if you have got spiritual power, then you can measure it. And that measurement is also given in the śāstra. What is that? 

One ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair. Hair is a very small point. And divide it into ten thousand parts. That one part is the measure, magnitude of the soul.

keśāgra-śata-bhāgasya

śatadhā kalpitasya ca

jīva-bhāgaḥ sa vijñeyaḥ

sa cānantyāya kalpate

(CC Madhya 19.140)

Everything is there. But you have no eyes to see, how to see one ten-thousandth portion of the top of the hair. You cannot see even the original top of the hair. Everything is there. We must have eyes." (Lecture SB, Canto 1 Ch 16 text 24 Hawaii, Jan 20, 1974)

Srila Prabhupāda - "This jagat, this material world, is existing on the spiritual prakṛti. You can calculate what is this body. This body is existing on the spiritual body. Just like your shirt. The shirt is existing on your actual hand. The shirt has got a hand because you have got hand. 

So matter or material energy is impersonal. But because the superior prakṛti, jīva-soul, he is person, therefore the matter appears like a person. 

Because I have got hands and legs, therefore this cloth has got hands and legs. Otherwise the cloth has no hands and legs; it is impersonal. And in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, vāsāṁsi jīrṇāni. 

This body is just like dress, just like your coat has got hand, your pant has got leg, but either the pant or coat has no leg, no hand, but because you have got leg and hand, therefore the coat has got leg and hand. 

Everyone can understand this, it is very easy. So the original position of the spirit soul has form, therefore the cloth has been cut into form. 

It is very easy to understand, otherwise how you get the form? And in this form the spirit soul is trying to enjoy this material world. But it is not puruṣa. It cannot enjoy. That is false. That is illusion." (Lecture SB, Canto 3 Ch 26 text 3 Bombay, Dec 15, 1974) 

Srila Prabhupada - "We are not studying what kind of dress you have got. Now, you are also not studying what kind of dress I have got. We are concerned with philosophy, with knowledge. 

Similarly, we are not concerned whether you are American or Englishman or African or this or that, a cat or dog. We want to give you Kṛṣṇa consciousness, because everyone is conscious. So that consciousness has to be changed. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. 

One has to become clear of these designations-

I am Indian,

I am American,

I am brāhmaṇa, 

I am Muslim,

I am Christian,

I am Hindu.

These are all designations. So we have to become free from these designations by coming to the spiritual platform.

Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam. Nirmalam means without any... Hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-sevanaṁ bhaktir ucyate (CC Madhya 19.170). 

When you come to that purest form of spirit soul, you don't think that your indriyas, or senses, are lost. No. Senses are there. 

At that time, if you enjoy your senses in cooperation with the Supreme, that is called bhakti, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness." (Lecture SB, Canto 5 Ch 5 text 1 London, Aug 30, 1971) 

Devotee - "Would the spirit soul within a cow's body be in a different shape?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes, it has got also legs. But the shape has taken according to his desire (voluntary). Every animal has got these four things. 

Just like bird, it has got two wings, two legs. The animal has got four legs. And the man has got two hands, two legs. So the same parts of the body, they are appearing in a different type. But the four limbs of the body are there."

Devotee - "Is the original body of the spirit soul a human form?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes, human form. God is also human form. "Man is made after the shape of God." I think there is in the Bible. Is it not? So God is also like human form. Here you see Kṛṣṇa, two hands, two legs."

Hari-śauri - "How do we understand, then, that there are peacocks and flowers and trees in the spiritual world? Are these not eternal forms?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes, but in the material world they are restricted, they are more covered, just like if you cover your body with blanket, the hands and legs are invisible. But you are not the blanket. So the trees and plants, they are more covered. They are not in full manifestation. The human form is the full manifestation of the jiva-soul."

Hari-śauri - "They are covered in the spiritual world?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "Not in the spiritual world, there that is voluntary, some devotee wants to serve Kṛṣṇa as flower; they become flower there. If I want that "As a flower I shall lie down at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa," he becomes flower, voluntarily. And he can change his..., from flower to human body. That is spiritual life. There is no restriction. If some devotee wants to serve Kṛṣṇa as cow, he serves Kṛṣṇa as cow, as calf, as flower, as plant, as water, as ground, field, or as father, as mother, as friend, as beloved, anything. Ye yathā mām prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham (BG 4.11). That is Kṛṣṇa's all-powerfulness, this is spiritual life." (Lecture SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 1 Melb, Australia, May 21, 1975)

Srila Prabhupāda - "In Vaikuṇṭha, people, they also dress with yellow cloth, pīta-kauśeya, or this saffron color. This is Vaikuṇṭha dress. Kauśeya, pīta, the dress, garments. Kirīṭinaḥ: "with helmets." Kuṇḍalinaḥ: "with nice earring." Kirīṭinaḥ kuṇḍalino lasat-puṣkara-mālinaḥ, "and very nice flower garland." This is Vaikuṇṭha dress. Lasat-puṣkara-mālinaḥ, sarve ca nūtna-vayasaḥ: all young men. In Vaikuṇṭha there is no old age, although they are eternal. That is the real form of the spirit. The old age is due to this body, material body. Material thing is born and stays for some time, and then it is annihilated. So, up to the time of annihilation, it becomes so old, nasty, bad-looking. But in the Vaikuṇṭha there is no such thing. Nityaḥ śāśvato 'yam. The Vaikuṇṭha planet, because that is spiritual body, that is nityaḥ śāśvataḥ." (Lecture SB, Canto 6 Ch 1 text 33 San Francisco, July 18, 1975) 

What is really going on in the temporary decaying material creation if we choose to stay in the endless cycle of birth and death?

Who owns and provides all material bodily vessels to the visiting eternal jiva-souls, who have chosen to leave Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavan and enter the material worlds (Brahmanda universes) by "hiring" temporary material bodily vessels from the dreams of Maha-Visnu?

All the material bodily vessels in the material creation belong to Maha-Visnu and must be purchased or "hired" from Him.

Srila Prabhupada - "We are not the owner of this body, not the owner of the senses. The senses are "hired" from the Supreme Lord. This is very subtle understanding, one should know the proprietor of the senses is God." (March 1966 NY City USA)

Srila Prabhupada - "The "immediate" expansions of the Lord are called svāṁśa or "personal direct" expansions (Visnu-tattva). The "separated" expansions of the Lord are called vibhinnāṁśa - jiva-tattva or independent jiva-souls like us." (BG 10.37, Purport)

Each individual jiva-soul in the spiritual world can "choose" to "voluntarily" serve Krsna in an unlimited variety of ways, or even reject Him if they choose and enter the material world. 

The jiva-souls ARE an eternal individual spiritual bodily form that originally looks like Krsna's "two-armed bodily form" in the spiritual world of Goloka-Vrindavana.

Each jiva-soul has their own unique personality separate from the Krsna's Personality that allows free will, free expression and voluntary service.

However, the outward appearance of the jiva-souls can change to an unlimited variety of bodily forms in the spiritual world, and not necessarily human either. They can appear as a flag pole, a blade of grass, a tree, a bench, a cow herd boy or girl, a cow, a shop owner, a cloud in the sky, a bird, etc.

There are unlimited choices of what one can look like but is almost inconceivable to understand this.

It is also inconceivable to understand that the spiritual worlds are a place where EVERYTHING is living and no dead matter or maya exists there.

If the jiva-souls voluntary choose to enter the Vaikuntha planets of Visnu/Narayana, they have a 4 armed bodily form similar to Lord Visnu, or a 4 armed bodily Form similar to Luxmi devi, Lord Visnu's consort.

Srila Prabhupada - "The human form is the full manifestation of the jiva-soul." (Melb, May 20, 1975)

Srila Prabhupada - "The spirit soul is NOT formless; it has got form, the spirit soul always has form and is expressed as hands, legs, heads, everything. But with our material eyes at the present, our gross eyes, we cannot see these facts; therefore we foolishly believe the jiva-souls have no form." (Lecture on BG 2.14 - Mexico, Feb 14, 1975)

Devotee – "Is the original body of the jiva-soul a human form?"

Srila Prabhupada – "Yes, human form. God is also human form. "Man is made after the shape of God." I think there is in the Bible. Is it not? So God is also like human form, here you see Krsna, two hands, two legs."

Hari-sauri – "How do we understand, then, that there are peacocks and flowers and trees in the spiritual world? Are these not eternal forms?"

Srila Prabhupada – "[describing material form first]: Yes, they are more covered, just like if you cover your body with blanket, the hands and legs are invisible. But you are not the blanket. So the trees and plants, they are more covered. They are not in full manifestation, the human form is the full manifestation of the jiva-soul."

Hari-sauri - "They are covered in the spiritual world?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Not in the spiritual world, there that is voluntary. Some devotees want to serve Krsna as flower; then they become flower there, they lie down at the lotus feet of Krsna as a flower voluntarily, but he can change his form from flower to human body if one wants. That is spiritual life. There is no restriction. If some devotee wants to serve Krsna as cow, he serves Krsna as cow, as calf, as flower, as plant, as water, as ground, field, or as father, as mother, as friend, as beloved, anything. It is inconceivable, yet a fact." (SB, 6.1.1-4 - Melb, May 20, 1975)

Srimati Radharani is the internal energy, we are marginal energy (jiva-souls)

Srila Prabhupada - "Regarding your question about our relationship with Srimati Radharani, She is the internal energy, we are marginal energy (jiva-souls). Marginal means sometimes internal, sometimes external. When we are under the internal energy, that is our normal life, and when we are under the external energy, that is our abnormal life. Therefore, we are called marginal energy (jiva-souls); we can be either this way or that way. But being qualitatively one with the purusa, our tendency is to remain in the internal energy. Being in the external energy is our artificial attempt." (Letter to Mass 25 April, 1969)

Srila Prabhupada – "Regarding your questions where are the spirit souls coming from?  These spirit souls and all spirit souls are coming from Vaikuntha, but in these material worlds they are taking various grades of bodies according to their material activities. There is no new soul. New and old are due to this material body, but the soul is NEVER born and NEVER dies, so if there is no birth, so how there can be new soul?" (Letter to Jagadisa dasa 7/9/1970)

All jiva-souls are beginningless and endless, they were NEVER created, not even by Krsna because they have always existed, just like the Sun-disc and the sun-rays have always existed together. 

Remember only "matter" is temporary like the material bodily vessels the perpetual jiva-souls are in as a passenger, they wear out and eventually decay, while the jiva-soul within can never decay or be destroyed in anyway. 

All jiva-souls have existed for infinity without a beginning, nor will they ever have an ending.

The "jiva-souls" who have chosen to be covered by a temporary decaying material bodily vessels, are eternal in that decaying material bodily container and are therefore never subjected to the material vessels decay, impermanence, decline and death. 

All jiva-souls are eternal and are eventually forced to abandon a worn out broken down unfit material bodily container, and given a new material body out of 8 million 400 thousand species of life, a rebirth in the endless cycle of birth and death in the material manifestation.

Taking birth again in the human species is very rare, many take it for granted their next life will be a human birth, in most cases, especially in Kali-yuga it isn't, most are reborn in the animal kingdom or lower as Bhagavad Gita As It Is explains.

The individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) have existed for "infinity" which means, just like Krsna, they are beginningless and endless, and were NEVER created.

To actually realize we never really die and have NEVER died is an eye opening realization and means our real home is in Vaikuntha or Goloka-Vrindavana where one never experiences birth, death or decay. 

In the material temporary creation, this can mean something very horrible.

This is because we have ALWAYS existed without beginning or end, it IS possible we have lived within billions upon billions upon billions of material bodily vessels in another time, another place, a past material creation that goes back through infinity (never ending) and goes forward through infinity (also never ending)

It is important to understand there is no such thing as new jiva-souls being created because they have ALWAYS existed and were NEVER created as Bhagavad Gita explains.

Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 2, Verse 12.

"Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be." (BG 2.12)

Bhagavad Gita As It Is "1983 correct edition," Chapter 2 text 20-

"For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain." (BG, Ch 2 text 20 "correct" 1983 edition)

Srila Prabhupada – "There are no new souls, new and old are due to this material body, but the jiva-soul is never born and never dies, so if there is no birth, how can there be new souls?" (Letter to Jagadisa dasa, 7/9/1970)

Only matter is temporary (like the material bodily vessel the jiva-soul is presently in), while the jiva-souls in the material body are eternal and can NEVER cease to exist.

This means when the material vessels the jiva-soul is in, breaks down due to disease, decay or accidents, and ceases to function, also due to old age, the jiva-soul can no longer remain in that broken material body, and is forced to take another body in the womb of a new mother.

However, the jiva-souls contained in a "subtle material body", are forced to continuously change "gross material bodies" because of the temporary nature of the material creation.

Maha-Visnu has a "Costume shop" of  material bodies for hire, all manifesting from His material dreams.

The fact is, to acquire a material bodily biological container, so the jiva-soul can enter a Brahmanda material universe's inner secondary universe within it, the jiva-soul must "hire" a bodily vessel from the owner of all "material bodily costumes" in the material creation, Maha-Visnu. 

It is from Maha-Visnu's "Costume shop" that all material bodily vessels originate, and are available for hire to a visiting jiva-soul to the material creation so they can acquire a material body suitable for their desired existence in a material universe (Brahmanda)

Past, present, and future all exist simultaneously in the material world in the eyes of Maha-Visnu.

And all material bodily vessels we have are rented from Him like, just one gets a costume from a costume shop.

The facilities of bodily costumes and their pathway from birth to death is provided by Maha-Visnu. 

The eternal individual jiva-souĺs are simply the passenger in the material body.

Material bodies or vessels we are contained in while active in the material creation, all come from Maha-Visnu's dreaming of the material universes, He provides all material bodily vessels.

Srila Prabhupada – "This material creation is the spirit soul’s dream. Actually all existence in the material world is a dream of Maha-Visnu, as the Brahma-Samhita describes–

"This material world is created by the dreaming of Maha-Visnu. The real, factual platform is the spiritual world, but when the spirit soul wants to imitate the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is put into this dreamland of material creation." (SB Canto 4 Ch 29 text 83)

Srila Prabhupada - “Everything happening within time, which consists of past, present and future, is merely a dream. This is the secret in understanding in all the Vedic literature." (SB Canto 4 Ch 29 text 2b)

Srila Prabhupada - "Our contact with matter is just like dream. Actually we are not fallen. Therefore, because we are not fallen, at any moment we can revive our Krsna consciousness, we break the dream." (Tokyo Japan 1972, SB Canto 2 Ch 9 text 1)

Srila Prabhupada - "Factually all of material existence is only a dream. Thus there is no question of past, present or future. Persons who are addicted to karma-kanda-vicara, which means ‘working for future happiness through fruitive activities’, are also dreaming. Similarly, past happiness and present happiness are merely dreams." (SB Canto 4 Ch 29 text 2b)

Space-time is the fabric within each material universal universe (Brahmanda) responsible for the movement or flowing of time (past, present, future) in the material manifestation.

"Time" in the temporary material creation, is like a permanent roadway divided into past, present and future that all exists simultaneously, just like the beginning, middle and end of that roadway is always there, even after one traverses it?

In other words the movement of time (past, present and future) exists just like each part of the roadway exists, beginning, middle and end, after passing over it. 

This means that within that fabric of space-time, the material bodily vessel we are in, IS just like being on a roadway that starts from it's birth, childhood, youth, middle age, old age and death.

The fact is, the jiva-souls are simply "the passengers" ''on that roadway,'' or "a passenger in the material body." 

So, because the jiva-souls are NOT made of matter like the roadway or material body is, the decay and breakdown of matter has no affect on the jiva-souls who eternally remain indestructible and never dies.

The jiva-souls (eternal spiritual living entities that can NEVER be destroyed) are the passengers on that roadway simultaneously contained in a temporary decaying material bodily vessel.

As said above, the movement of past, present, and future all exist simultaneously in the material world through the eyes of its creator Maha-Visnu. 

"Material time" is a continuous back-drop all-pervading the material creation vibrating its effects of impermanence, decay, death and rebirth within each Brahmanda universe. 

We must not forget, all material bodily vessels, numbering 8 million 400 thousand species, are possessed by perpetual individual life, who are the eternal, indestructible jiva-souls who move all material bodily vessels. 

Maha-Visnu knows all this because He is God, the cause of all causes, He knows all and sees all.

Maha-Visnu dreams the entire material creation which means every possible outcome that the individual jiva-souls dream up, or imagine already exists in His unlimited volt of material dreams.

As a result of all that is possible to exist, ALWAYS exists with every possible outcome, there are billions of Brahmanda universal shells, each with a smaller "secondary universe" deep within each Brahmanda where Maha-Visnu's expands as Garbhodakashayi Visnu.

And from His navel Lord Brahma appears who then builds the different planetary systems.

This happens in all of the billions of Brahmanda universes that originate from the pores and breathing of Maha-Visnu.

As explained above, deep within each Brahmanda is a secondary smaller material universe where Maha-Visnu expands as Garbhodakashayi Visnu and from Him Lord Brahma appears and builds a universe that has many planetary systems like our universe that is inside our surrounding Brahmanda universe,   which has 14.

There is only one Maha-Visnu in the material creation but there are billions of Garbhodakashayi Visnus and Brahmas.

As already explained, the movement of material time (past, present, and future) allows everything to exist simultaneously in their own "time zone" within the material creation. 

Just like we cannot see the heavenly realm on the Moon, because it is in its own subtle dimension of space-time different from our gross material dimension.  

Maha-Visnu naturally knows all His creation, past, present and future. That should not be surprising, after all, He is Krsna's expansion called Visnu-tattva who has 93.75% of Krsna's qualities which is 60 of Krsna's 64 attributes) Maha-Visnu creates all the temporary material universes, called material worlds known as Brahmandas via His dreaming.

The word "world" does not only refer to our small earth global sphere we live on. 

Our material universe, within its 14 planetary systems, is often collectively called a "world" too, and so is the massive surrounding Brahmanda universe our universe is incased in.

So, the question is, can the individual jiva-souls (jiva- souls who have 78.125% of Krsna's qualities or 50 of Krsna's 64 attributes) also realize that past, present, and future all exist simultaneously in the material worlds?

Or does Maha-Visnu and other Visnu-tattva expansion have the only capacity to see this?

The answer is no, other jiva-souls can also see this if Visnu allows it, Arjuna was shown past, present and future by Krsna as told in the Mahabharata chapter Bhagavad Gita.

So yes, Maha-Visnu sees all His dreams of the vast material universes (Brahmands) in full, meaning from beginning, the middle and end as a temporary reality and NOT an illusion, His dreams are real but temporary.

Rare jiva-souls who get above the flow of time can also see the whole road, beginning, middle and end, however, this is very rare.

Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 11 Text 7 "The Universal Form"

"Whatever you wish to see can be seen all at once in this body. This universal form can show you all that you now desire, as well as whatever you may desire in the future. Everything is here completely."

Purport by Srila Prabhupada. 

"No one can see the entire universe sitting in one place. Even the most advanced scientist cannot see what is going on in other parts of the universe. Krsna gives him the power to see anything he wants to see, past, present and future. Thus by the mercy of Krsna, Arjuna is able to see everything." (BG Ch, 11 Text 7)

Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes, He can do anything He wants, even over-ride the jiva-soul's free will.

Krsna never interferes with the jiva-soul's "free will," even when they choose to reject Him because He wants His subjects to think for themselves and voluntarily serve Him without being dictated too or forced.

However, even this kind consideration is ultimately up to Krsna to sanction because Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of ALL causes and can do anything He wants, even over-ride the jiva-soul's free will anytime He likes.

This means Krsna is not controlled by any rules and regulations, or binded by any laws in both the spiritual and material world. At any time He likes, He can change anything He likes, after all everything is resting on Him and not a blade of grass can move without the will of Krsna.

Only Krsna can do this if He wants because He is the Supreme Lord and not a blade of grass moves without His sanction. Krsna knows everything past, present and future because He is omniscient. But generally Krsna allows the marginal living entities (jiva-souls) to express themselves in their own unique way, which means allowing them to have their choice to stay in the spiritual world, or enter the material world. 

So, without any objections from Krsna to follow Him or not follow Him, the jiva-souls can choose to stay in the spiritual worlds, or enter the temporary material creation and do what ever they want without Krsna. 

Such choices are based on their individual constitutional attribute of "free will" that every jiva-soul (marginal living entity) is endowed with.

In most nearly all cases, Krsna will not interfere with the jiva-soul's free will because He wants a relationship with those who can contribute and take personal responsibilities for their own thoughts and actions.

This allows the jiva-souls to voluntarily make their own unique offerings to Krsna and suprise Him.

This is what it means to be an iindividual jiva-soul (marginal living entity) who has the "free will" that allows them to further enrich, contribute and even surprise Krsna with their loving exchanges with Him. 

Otherwise, one is just a mindless drone or puppet who only obeys without personal contributions, foolishly thinking "surrender" means allowing Krsna to control your every thoughts, actions and words, allowing Krsna to possess you and take complete control of your personality and individuality.

The fact is, this kind of mindless bogus "surrender" is dangerous impersonalism.

Bali Mardana - "An example of free will is someone can choose Kṛṣṇa or turn away? Is that an example of free will?"

Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes, because if you accept Kṛṣṇa, then you must follow what Kṛṣṇa says. If you don't follow Kṛṣṇa, then what is the use of talking of Kṛṣṇa? If he accepts Kṛṣṇa, he must abide by the injunction of Kṛṣṇa."(Morning Walk, Jan 22, 1974, Hawaii)

Srila Prabhupada  - "Free will means that you can act wrongly. That is free will. Unless there is chance of doing wrong or right, there is no question of free will. Where is free will then? If I act only one sided, that means I have no free will. Because we act sometimes wrongly, that means free will."

Hayagriva - "A man may know better but still act wrongly."

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, but that is free will but misuses his free will, just like a thief who knows he is stealing, it is bad, but still he does it. That is free will. He cannot check his greediness, so in spite of his knowing that he is doing wrong thing—he will be punished, he knows; he has seen another thief, he was punished, he was put into prison— everything he knows, but still he steals. Why? Misuse of free will. But unless there can be misuse of free will, then there is no question of free will." (Excerpt from: Philosophy Discussions with Srila Prabhupada – Rene Descartes)

Srila Prabhupada – "So everyone can know that independence means one can use it properly, or one can misuse it. That is independence. If you make it one-way only, that is not independence, that is force." (Los Angeles, June 23, 1975)

Genuine loving exchanges can never exist if one's relationship with God was not a "two-way" exchange of feelings, but only a domineering "one-sided" affair with "a so called God." 

Freedom and free will obviously includes having the choice to accept or reject Krsna.

Srila Prabhupada - "Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling, then there is love. Not by force! Krsna does not want to become a lover like that." (Washington DC July 8, 1976)

Srila Prabhupāda – "Unless there are "two-persons," where is the question of love? Love means two persons, then there is exchange, then there is love. I must deal with you open-hearted, you must deal with me open-hearted, then there is love. So if you want to love Kṛṣṇa, God, then these things must be there." (Aug 9, 1976, Tehran)

Srila Prabhupada - "Love means two. There MUST be two, the lover and the beloved. Kṛṣṇa is already lover. He loves you so much that He's trying to get you back. Therefore love cannot be one or love cannot be executed only one, there MUST be another one. I love somebody; somebody loves me, so there must be lover, there must be beloved. We must understand that love means you take and you give also. Suppose if you love somebody and you simply take from him, but you don't give. Oh, do you think it is very good? No, it is not good, that is NOT love, that is exploitation and forced obedience. If I go on simply taking from you, and if I don't offer you anything, that is simply exploitation." (Srila Prabhupada quotes 1966 - 1974, Vaniquotes)

Srila Prabhupada - "The impersonalist philosophy is oneness. So how there be love with just one? Is it possible? Have you got any such experience that love means one? No. Love means two. There MUST be two, the lover and the beloved. Kṛṣṇa is already lover. He loves you so much that He's trying to get you back. That is Kṛṣṇa's attempt. "Please, My dear boy, or My dear friend, My dear servant." (Lecture SB, Canto 2 Ch 1 text 3, Paris, June 12, 1974)

Devotee – "When we are in the spiritual sky and serving Krsna, we have a perfect relationship with Krsna, what causes us to fall down in the material world, because we’re already there serving Krsna?"

Srila Prabhupada – "Because you desire to fall down. Here it is explained that don’t fall down."

Devotee – "Srila Prabhupada, I can’t understand why we should have an impure desire when we are already serving in Vaikuntha."

Srila Prabhupada – "Because you have got little freedom, it is free will, why one is not coming here and going to the liquor shop? It is 

Bhagavatam it says that Krsna did not want us to come to this material world. If Krsna did not want us to come, why are we here?"

Srila Prabhupada – "Yes, you forced Krsna to allow you to come. Just like sometimes a child forces his father. Father says, "My dear son, do not do this. Do not go there." But he insists, “Oh, I must go. I must go." All right, you go at your risk and suffer. What can be done? So because you are son of God you have got independence, full independence, therefore you have acquired the quality of your father, so God does not interfere with your independence. If you persist that "I must go and enjoy independently," God says, "All right, you can go." This is the position. You have to take sanction. That is a fact. But when you persist, God sanctions. And you come to the material world and enjoy." (Melb, Australia June 25, 1974)

Acyutananda – "In the Bhagavad Gita it says, "Once coming to the spiritual world he never returns to the material worlds, so he can return?"

Srila Prabhupada – "If he likes he can return, that is voluntary."

Guru-kripa – "How is it that one can become envious of Krsna?"

Srila Prabhupada – "You have got little independence, you can violate. Because you are part and parcel of God. 

God has got full independence, but you have got independence too, proportionately, because you are part and parcel, so if he likes, he can return. That independence has to be accepted. We can misuse that. 

Krsna-bahirmukha haïä bhoga väïchä kare. That misuse is the cause of our falldown." (Mayapur, Feb 19, 1976)

In actual fact, if the jiva-souls never had their free will, then genuine voluntary loving exchanges and reciprocation experienced in a "two-way" relationship, would not exist because loving relationships between two, can never exist among the "impersonalists" who foolishly believe everything is "all-one" consciousness. 

Srimati Radharani is the internal energy, we are marginal energy (jiva-souls)

Srila Prabhupada - "Regarding your question about our relationship with Srimati Radharani, She is the internal energy, we are marginal energy (jiva-souls). Marginal means sometimes internal, sometimes external. When we are under the internal energy, that is our normal life, and when we are under the external energy, that is our abnormal life. Therefore, we are called marginal energy (jiva-souls); we can be either this way or that way. But being qualitatively one with the purusa, our tendency is to remain in the internal energy. Being in the external energy is our artificial attempt." (Letter to Lilavati, Allston, Massachusetts, 25 April, 1969)

Those who claim "not even the leaves can fall down from Vaikuntha" because Krsna is in complete control of the jiva-souls and will not let them fall down, are not understanding the real meaning and implications of having "free will" (freedom), and that only a "two-way" relationship that does NOT deny personal choices that includes even rejecting Krsna ALWAYS exists as part of the individual expression of EVERY jiva-soul.

This is allows the association between Krsna and the jiva-souls, to for ever expand into loving personal exchanges as well.

In other words, the spiritual planets are not a "one-way" impersonal dictatorship where Krsna controls every aspect of His devotees like a puppet master controls his puppets.

This also means one's position on the spiritual planets can never be claimed to be eternally permanent, even though it is the jiva-souls original and natural home.

This is because there is always free will in both Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana. 

This means at any time the jiva-souls can leave if they choose to do so, but most, over 90%, choose to never leave Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavana.

Many foolishly claim the jiva-souls can never fall down from Vaikuntha or Goloka-Vrindavana, which is correct for over 90% because they choose to never fall down.

However, all jiva-souls can choose to leave at anytime due to free will. Therefore it is always their choice and as already explained, most choose NOT to leave the spiritual worlds. 

Also fall down from Vaikuntha or Goloka-Vrindavana is not because of Maya (material cause) because Maya does not exist in the spiritual worlds.

However, free will, or the ability to make one's own decisions and choices, DOES always exists there.

As said above, Maya and material energy cannot exist in Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavana and tempt the jiva-souls, therefore Maya is NOT the cause of falling down from the spiritual worlds.

But as said, the ability to choose does exist in both Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavana where one always has a choice.

"Surrendering" to Krsna in Goloka-Vrindavana, or Visnu on the Vaikuntha planets is NOT impersonal, which means the jiva-souls do not have to give up their free will, individuality and unique personality in order to love and serve Krsna.

In fact it is the opposite, without free will one can NEVER love Krsna.

And what are the symptoms of free will?

It means having the awareness of an independent self, a unique individual personality that is separate from Krsna's Personality, and being able to voluntarily make your own choices in your service to Krsna.

Having "free will" ALWAYS allows the jiva-souls to voluntarily choose their own contributions as a unique offering to Krsna in loving service. 

Without "free will," loving reciprocational exchanges and positive and negative emotions with Krsna are not possible.

In the spiritual worlds all marginal living entities (jiva-souls) are nitya-siddha (liberated) personalities. 

However, while in the material world, those same jiva-souls who choose to enter the material creation, ARE nitya-baddha (meaning materially conditioned) 

Nitya-siddha and nitya-baddha are different sides the jiva-soul's personality they can choose to be. 

Although nitya-siddha is the jiva-soul's, "original position," living in their eternal home on the Vaikuntha planets, or in Goloka-Vrindavana serving the interests of the Lord.  

The jiva-soul's "original position" are always nitya-siddha, Srila Prabhupada explains here-

Srila Prabhupada - "The actual constitutional position of every marginal living entity is nitya-siddha. By following the rules and regulations and instructions of the spiritual master, the jiva-soul can become AGAIN nitya-siddha. So the Krsna consciousness movement is to make the nitya-baddhas AGAIN nitya-siddha." (NY City Lecture on CC, July 13, 1976)

As said above, all jiva-souls are originally nitya-siddha, while nitya-baddha is a conditioned state they fall down to by rejecting Krsna. (either to the material creation or the impersonal brahman) 

Therefore, because of free will, the jiva-souls can choose to enter the temporary material worlds where they are there known as nitya-baddha, or latter on, after being frustrated with material existence, the impersonal Brahmajyoti.

All jiva-souls can choose to remain nitya-siddha or they can enter the material creation as nitya-baddha. 

Nitya-siddha and nitya-baddha are different sides of each jiva-soul's personality, there are NOT two separate categories of jiva-souls, one being nitya-baddha, and the other being nitya-siddha.

There are those who foolishly believe a class of jiva-souls can never fall down from Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana and always remain nitya-siddha, such an idea is nonsense because that means they have no free will.

As explained above, free will means being always able to choose right or wrong, otherwise you have no free will as explained above.

Only the many Visnu-tattvas expansions of Krsna and Radharani in their many different roles in Krsna's eternal pastimes in Vrindavan and the Vaikuntha planets never fall down.

And includes of course those jiva-souls "who choose NOT to fall down."  

The fact is, the jiva-souls (nitya-siddha) in Vaikuntha and Goloka-Vrindavana, CAN fall down at any time and become nitya-baddha in the material creation, but most jiva-souls (over 90% as said above) choose NEVER to fall down.

A pure devotee is trying to remember Krsna by always chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and praying to never fall down..^^..

Srila Prabhupada - "Love means two, there must be two, the lover and the beloved." (BG Ch 9 text 2-5, NY City, Nov 23, 1966)

Srila Prabhupada - "We have got the propensity to love. Love means somebody else. Love cannot be "one" or love cannot be experienced by on one, there must be two, then there is love. I must deal with you open-hearted, you must deal with me open-hearted, then there is love. So if you want to love Kṛṣṇa, God, then these things must be there." (Aug 9, 1976, Tehran)

Genuine loving exchanges are voluntary and can never exist in a "one-way or one-sided" domineering way where personal contributions are denied, ignored, controlled and never appreciated. 

That kind of impersonal association only extinguishes the jiva-soul's individuality, free-will, and their ability to voluntarily contribute their own unique offerings to Krsna.

Srimati Radharani is the internal energy, we are marginal energy (jiva-souls)

Srila Prabhupada - "Regarding your question about our relationship with Srimati Radharani, She is the internal energy, we are marginal energy (jiva-souls). Marginal means sometimes internal, sometimes external. When we are under the internal energy, that is our normal life, and when we are under the external energy, that is our abnormal life. Therefore, we are called marginal energy (jiva-souls); we can be either this way or that way. But being qualitatively one with the purusa, our tendency is to remain in the internal energy. Being in the external energy is our artificial attempt." (Letter to Lilavati, Allston, Mass, USA, 25 April, 1969)

Srila Prabhupada - "Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling. Then there is love. Not by force, no, Krsna does not want to become a lover like that, ‘You love me, otherwise I shall kill you!" (Washington DC July 8, 1976)   

Srila Prabhupada - "In the spiritual world service is voluntary. Some devotees want to serve Krsna as flower; so they become flower there if they want to be a flower and lie down at the lotus feet of Krsna, then he becomes flower, voluntarily, and he can change from flower to human body also. That is spiritual life. There is no restriction. If some devotee wants to serve Krsna as cow, he serves Krsna as cow, as calf, as flower, as plant, as water, as ground, field, or as father, as mother, as friend, as beloved, anything. It is inconceivable, yet a fact." (SB Canto 6 Ch 1 text 1-4, Melb, May 20, 1975)

Srila Prabhupada - "Love means you take and you give also. Suppose if you love somebody and you simply take from him, but you don't give. Oh, do you think it is very good? No. It is not good. That is NOT love. That is exploitation. If I go on simply taking from you, and if I don't offer you anything, that is simply exploitation." (Lecture on BG, Ch 9 text 2-5, New York, Nov 23, 1966)

Srila Prabhupada - "We are giving Krsna consciousness—that is loving, real loving. We are giving [people] eternal life, eternal bliss. Unless we love them, why we are taking so much trouble? The preacher must love the people. Otherwise, why he is taking? He can do it for himself at home. Why he is taking so much trouble? Why at eighty years old I have come here if I do not love? So, who can love better than a preacher?” (Morning Walk, Perth, May 17, 1975)

Srila Prabhupada - "Free will means that you can act wrongly. That is free will. Unless there is chance of doing wrong or right, there is no question of free will. Where is free will then? If I act only one sided, that means I have no free will. Because we act sometimes wrongly, that means free will." (Philosophy Discussions with Rene Descartes 1976)

Srila Prabhupada – "So everyone can know that independence means one can use it properly, one can misuse it. That is independence. If you make it one way only, that you cannot become fall down, that is not independence. That is force." (Mayapur, June 20, 1973)

Having free will is the eternal constitutional make up of every marginal living entity (jiva-soul), and is the foundation for the jiva-soul's voluntary relationship with Krsna.

Genuine loving relations and service are based on voluntary reciprocal exchanges and contributions between two, and never the demands of just one! No, Krsna is not like that at all, in fact He serves His associates and friends more than they can ever serve Him.

The individual jiva-souĺs have their choices too and Krsna knows and respects that, even if the jiva-soul chooses to reject Him. 

Free will therefore, only has meaning when the jiva-souls can express themselves in a "two-sided" relationship.

In other words, a genuine selfless honest relationships based on a "two-way" exchange between Krsna and the individual jiva-souls, can forever expand, increase and add an unlimited variety of nectarine mellows between Krsna and His devotees, or, if the jiva-soul chooses, that same free will can be used to reject Krsna.

The word "reciprocation" only has meaning when there are "two involved", not one! 

"Free will" only has meaning when the jiva-souls can express themselves in an open "two-sided" affair, one way or the other, and never forced to surrender to Krsna or His devotees. 

Being able to choose to accept or reject Krsna proves that free will does truly exist..×××..

Love only exist when "two" are involved in a "two-way" exchange of feelings.

Srila Prabhupada - "Love means two, there must be two, the lover and the beloved." (Lecture on BG Ch 9 text 2-5, NY City, Nov 23, 1966)

Srila Prabhupada - "We have got the propensity to love. Love means somebody else. Love cannot be "one" or love cannot be experienced by on one, there must be two, then there is love. I must deal with you open-hearted, you must deal with me open-hearted, then there is love. So if you want to love Kṛṣṇa, God, then these things must be there." (Aug 9, 1976, Tehran)

Genuine love is voluntary and can never exist in a "one-way or one-sided" domineering way where personal contributions are denied, ignored, controlled and never appreciated. 

That kind of impersonal association only extinguishes the jiva-soul's individuality, free-will, and their ability to voluntarily contribute their own unique offerings to Krsna.

Srila Prabhupada - "Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling. Then there is love. Not by force, no, Krsna does not want to become a lover like that, ‘You love me, otherwise I shall kill you!" (Washington DC July 8, 1976)   

Srila Prabhupada - "In the spiritual world service is voluntary. Some devotees want to serve Krsna as flower; so they become flower there if they want to be a flower and lie down at the lotus feet of Krsna, then he becomes flower, voluntarily, and he can change from flower to human body also. That is spiritual life. There is no restriction. If some devotee wants to serve Krsna as cow, he serves Krsna as cow, as calf, as flower, as plant, as water, as ground, field, or as father, as mother, as friend, as beloved, anything. It is inconceivable, yet a fact." (SB Canto 6 Ch 1 text 1-4, Melb, May 20, 1975)

Srila Prabhupada - "Love means you take and you give also. Suppose if you love somebody and you simply take from him, but you don't give. Oh, do you think it is very good? No. It is not good. That is NOT love. That is exploitation. If I go on simply taking from you, and if I don't offer you anything, that is simply exploitation." (Lecture on BG, Ch 9 text 2-5, New York, Nov 23, 1966)

Srila Prabhupada - "We are giving Krsna consciousness—that is loving, real loving. We are giving [people] eternal life, eternal bliss. Unless we love them, why we are taking so much trouble? The preacher must love the people. Otherwise, why he is taking? He can do it for himself at home. Why he is taking so much trouble? Why at eighty years old I have come here if I do not love? So, who can love better than a preacher?” (Morning Walk, Perth, May 17, 1975)

All living entities (Visnu-tattva, Visnu-sakti-tattva and jiva-tattva [jiva-souls]) are expansions of the Original Living Entity, Krsna.

Srila Prabhupada - "Regarding your question about Krsna's associates, the principle is that all living entities are expansions of the "Original Living Entity, Krsna" but there are different grades of living entities- 

1 - Visnu-tattva (Krsna's direct expansions who are nondifferent from Krsna or God. Visnu-tattva is almost equal to the level of the Personality of Godhead. 

2 - Jiva-tattva (individual jiva-souls who have their own independent personality separate from Krsna's Personality. And Jiva-tattva (the jiva-souls) are His minute separated particles. 

Srila Prabhupada - "When Lord Caitanya appeared, Nityananda Prabhu and Advaita Prabhu were Visnu-tattva; whereas Gadadhara Prabhu and Srivas Prabhu were Visnu-"sakti"-tattva." (London 8 Dec, 1969)

All of Krsna's energy are His "sakti expansions.

1 - Some sakti personalities are direct Visnu expansions of Krsna like Balarama, Ramachandra, Narsingadeva, Narayana, Maha-Visnu,  Garbhodakashayi Visnu 

2 - Other sakti expansions are Krsna's more intimate associates like Srimati Radharani and the gopis of Vrindavana are known as Krsna's internal "Visnu-"sakti"-tattva" energy. 

3 - Other forms of "sakti" are Krsna's separated individual jiva-jiva-souls (jiva-tattva)

4 - And Krsna's material energy is also His "sakti" energies.

In other words, everything is Krsna's sakti energy and comes from Krsna because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes.  

Srila Prabhupāda -  "Gadadhara is the incarnation of devotional energy and of the internal potency who is sakti-tattva, the confidential worshipper of the Visnu-tattva. In this incarnation, Radharani was able to spend time with Her Lord as an intimate associate who helped spread the pastimes and glories of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu." (CC.Adi 10.15 purport)

Jiva-tattva or jiva-soul is also sakti-tattva because all of Krsna's energy is His sakti expansion. However, there are in different categories of sakti-tattva, some under Visnu-tattva, while others under jiva-tattva (jiva-soul) and also means matter too.

Srila Prabhupāda - "Srivasa Thakura is the incarnation of the pure devotee of the Lord. He is jiva-tattva, the leader of all pure unalloyed devotees. All glories to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Lord Nityananda! All glories to Advaita Prabhu, and all glories to the devotees of Lord Caitanya, headed by Srivasa!" (C.C.Adi 10.2)

Srimati Radharani is the internal sakti energy, we are marginal sakti energy (jiva-souls)

Srila Prabhupada - "Regarding your question about our relationship with Srimati Radharani, She is the internal energy, we are marginal energy (jiva-souls). Marginal means sometimes internal, sometimes external. When we are under the internal energy, that is our normal life, and when we are under the external energy, that is our abnormal life. Therefore, we are called marginal energy (jiva-souls); we can be either this way or that way. But being qualitatively one with the purusa, our tendency is to remain in the internal energy. Being in the external energy is our artificial attempt." (Letter - 25 April, 1969)

Srila Prabhupāda - "Lord Nityananda IS Balarama Himself, not an expansion of Him. Srila Narottama das Thakura has sung that the Lord who appeared as the Son of Nanda Maharaja has now appeared as the son of Sacidevi; and the same Balarama has appeared as Nityananda. This is the statement of Srila Narottama das Thakura." (Letter to Jayagovinda dasa, London 8 Dec, 1969)

Srila Prabhupada - "The pleasure potency of Śrī Kṛṣṇa formerly known as Vṛndāvaneśvarī is now personified in the form of Śrī Gadādhara Paṇḍita in the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī has pointed out that in the shape of Lakṣmī, the pleasure potency of Kṛṣṇa, she was formerly very dear to the Lord as Śyāmasundara vallabhā. 

The same Śyāmasundara vallabhā is now present as Gadādhara Paṇḍita. Formerly, as Lalitā-sakhī, she was always devoted to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Gadadhara Goswami is a representative of a perfect brahmana spiritual master He is the Pleasure Potency of Sri Krsna (Srimati Radharani) He is a learned scholar and Gadadhara Pandit is simultaneously an incarnation of Srimati Radharani and Lalita-sakhi. 

Gadadhara is the incarnation of devotional energy and of the internal potency who is sakti-tattva, the confidential worshipper of the Visnu-tattva. In this incarnation, Radharani was able to spend time with Her Lord as an intimate associate who helped spread the pastimes and glories of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu." (CC.Adi 10.15 purport)

Caitanya Caritamrta - "These two captains, with Their soldiers, such as Srivasa Thakura, travel everywhere, chanting the holy name of the Lord." (CC.Adi 3.75)

Caitanya Caritamrta - "The devotees headed by Srivasa are His smaller limbs. They are like His hands, face and eyes and His disc and other weapons." (CC.Adi 6.38)

Caitanya Caritamrta - "Srivasa, Haridasa, Ramadasa, Gadadhara, Murari, Mukunda, Candrasekhara and Vakresvara are all glorious and are all learned scholars, but the sentiment of servitude to Lord Caitanya makes them mad in ecstasy." (CC.Adi 6.49-50)

Caitanya Caritamrta - "The Lord’s marginal energy (jiva-soul) is Srivas Thakur. There are innumerable pure devotees of the Lord, headed by Srivasa Thakura, who are known as unalloyed devotees." (CC.Adi 7.16)

Caitanya Caritamrta - "Even cats and dogs in the household of Srivasa Thakura were liberated. Cats and dogs and other animals are not expected to become devotees, but, in the association of a pure devotee, they are also delivered. The entire family of Srivasa was made up of exalted spiritual personalities. In the Gaura-ganodesa dipika (90), Srivasa Pandita is described as an incarnation of Narada Muni, and Sri Rama Pandita, his younger brother, is said to be an incarnation of Parvata Muni, a great friend of Narada’s. 

Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita’s wife, Mālinī, is celebrated as an incarnation of the nurse Ambikā, who fed Lord Kṛṣṇa with her breast milk, and his niece Nārāyaṇī, the mother of Ṭhākura Vṛndāvana dāsa, the author of Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, was the sister of Ambikā in kṛṣṇa-līlā. We also understand from the description of Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata that after Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s acceptance of the sannyāsa order, Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita left Navadvīpa, possibly because of feelings of separation, and domiciled at Kumārahaṭṭa." (CC.Adi 10.8)

God (Visnu-tattva) and the individual jiva-souls (jiva-tattva) are together even in every atom in the material creation. God (Visnu or Narayana) and the jiva-tattvas (the individual jiva-souls) are within every atom. Therefore within the heart of all living entities and within the atom, God is known as Kshirodakashayi Visnu. 

In Gauḍīya Vaisnavism there are three different forms, or aspects, of Visnu as-

1 - Karanodakasayi-Visnu, also known as Maha-Visnu.  

2 - Garbhodakasayi-Visnu also known as Hiraņyagarbha 

3 - Ksirodakasayi-Visnu also known as Paramatma and Super Soul. 

They all enter and manage different aspects of the material creation.

Kṣīrodakaśāyī-Viṣṇu resides in the heart of every living creature as a four hand expansion similar to that of Mahā-Viṣṇu. 

He is also referred to as Paramātmā or super-soul. His abode is the Vaikuṇṭha. 

His personal abode is Kshirasagara (Milk Ocean) and He is realised as Aniruddha expansion of Nārāyaņa.

Visnu/Narayana are expansions of Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes.

Tamala Krsna - "Srila Prabhupada, someone asked a question the other day about the atom which I couldn’t give the answer to. His question is that if we say that within the atom the living entity, the jiva, is present, and life symptoms means six symptoms of birth, growth"

Srila Prabhupada - "That’s all right. Their life symptoms has not yet come. But there is."

Jayadvaita - "Potential."

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes."

Tamala Krsna - "His question was… It was sort of a dual question. At what time, or what…? Just like at the time of disintegration of this body, the living entity leaves this body and the body disintegrates, so does the atomic body also disintegrate when the living entity leaves it and moves to a higher body?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Atomic body? Atomic body means material body. Unless you are free from this material body, the atomic body will go on with you. That means unless you are mukta, the atomic body will go on. Mind, intelligence, ego — they are also atomic, finer atomic body."

Tamala Krsna - "But within each atom the living entity is present?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, God is present; therefore living entity is present."

Tamala Krsna -"So the living entity is present within the atom just as I am present within this body. When I leave this body, my body breaks apart."

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, you leave this body, enter another body."

Tamala Krsna -"Right."

Srila Prabhupada - "By nature’s law."

Tamala Krsna -"And when I leave this body, the body breaks apart."

Srila Prabhupada - "Eh?"

Tamala Krsna - "When I leave this body, the body dis…"

Srila Prabhupada - "The body is already atomic combination."

Tamala Krsna "Yes."

Srila Prabhupada - "So it remains atomic combination, you leave the body."

Tamala Krsna -"Yes, it remains…"

Srila Prabhupada - "You leave the house. That does not mean the house is finished."

Tamala Krsna - "Right, I can understand that."

Hamsaduta - "He’s asking that if the soul leaves the atomic particle, then does the particle break apart. Isn’t it?"

Srila Prabhupada - "No, no. You have not left atomic particle."

Tamala Krsna - "No, but you, you’re… I think you were saying that within the atom there’s also a living entity. So when that living entity leaves the atomic particle does the particle break apart? Or doesn’t it? I mean what…?"

Srila Prabhupada - "Just try to understand. From the sastra, you understand that andantara-stham: “God lives within the atom."

Tamala Krsna - "Yes."

Srila Prabhupada - "And when the God is there, living entity’s also there. This… This much you try to understand. Because God and living entity, they remain together, as two friends. God is trying to save this fallen friend. That is the information from Upanisad. So when God is there, the living entity is also there."

Rupanuga - "So Paramatma and jivatma are always together."

Srila Prabhupada - "Yes."

Pancadravida - "The jivas inside the atom, are they like impersonalists who are in the Brahman?"

Srila Prabhupada - "That you consider. He has not developed his consciousness, practically, it is like dead." (Morning Walk April 4 1975, Mayapur).*^^*.