Srila Prabhupada - "You are also energy; you are marginal energy (jiva-soul) Marginal energy means you (the jiva-souls) may be under the control of the spiritual energy or you may be under the control of material energy—your marginal position. But when you are under the control of the material energy, that is your precarious condition, struggle for existence. And when you are under spiritual energy, that is your life of freedom." (Introduction BG, As It Is, Los Angeles, Nov 23, 1968)
Srila Prabhupada - "There are three energies:
1 - external energy,
2 - internal energy,
3 - marginal energy.
The external energy is this material expansion, manifestation.
Similarly, there is internal energy, the spiritual world manifestation, and in between them there is another energy called marginal energy, taṭastha, that we are, we living entities.
We (the jiva-souls) are His marginal energy. Marginal energy means we can live either in this external energy or in the internal energy, in between.
So at the present moment we are living in the external energy. But this external energy is also Kṛṣṇa's energies, God's energy.
It is not different from Him. But the external energy means we are captivated by the external energy.
But the external energy is not permanent. The internal energy is permanent.
The spiritual world is permanent, and we are also permanent, jīva-bhūta.
Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre (BG 2.20)
"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 2.20, from 1983 edition] (Lecture on BG, Ch 9 text 4 - Melbourne, April 23, 1976)
Srila Prabhupada - "So we are one of the energies of the Lord, marginal energy.
Marginal energy means if I desire... Because I have got little independence...
Because Kṛṣṇa is fully independent, sva-rāṭ. Janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1). Vedānta says,
janmādy asya yataḥ anvayād itarataś ca artheṣu avijñaḥ sva-rāṭ.
Kṛṣṇa is sva-rāṭ, means "fully independent." But we are Kṛṣṇa's minute part and parcels; therefore we have got the independence quality, but not full independence.
We are controlled. Just like you claim to be independent, Indian nation. But that does not mean that you are fully independent, each of you.
You are dependent on the government. These things are very easy to understand. Similarly, a living entity has got independence, but not full independence. He cannot do anything without the sanction of God. That is his dependence." (Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.119 - Gorakhpur, Feb 17, 1971)
Srila Prabhupāda - "The process is to transfer yourself from material energy to spiritual energy. We are under energy. God has got two energies—material energy and spiritual energy. We are also energy. We (the jiva-souls) are marginal energy.
So marginal energy means we can remain under the material energy or on the spiritual energy, as we make our choice.
Just like on the beach you find sometimes on the border of the water, the water is covering the land, and sometimes the land is open.
This is called the marginal position. The jiva-souls are spirit but are influenced by sometimes spirit, and sometimes matter.
Similarly, we are marginal energy, or we can remain open also, in spiritual energy.
So this process of, I mean to say, converting the material energy to spiritual energy is called bhakti-yoga. Just like this microphone.
When it is used for some material purpose... Just like I am speaking. But sometimes the politicians or other parties or so many things—this microphone can be utilized for so many purposes.
And it can be utilized also, God's purposes. I am speaking through this microphone about the message of God.
So when it is utilized for God's purposes it is spiritual. And when it is utilized for our material purposes or sense gratification, this is material." (Lecture at St. Pascal's Franciscan Seminary - Melbourne, June 28, 1974)
Srila Prabhupada - "Regarding your question about our relationship with Srimati Radharani, She is the internal energy, we are marginal energy.
Marginal means (the jiva-souls) are 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; 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 25 April, 1969)
Srila Prabhupāda - "The living entity has no separate independent identity. He is the marginal energy of the Supreme.
When he is entrapped by material energy, he is conditioned, and when he is Kṛṣṇa conscious, or aware of the spiritual energy, then he is in his real and natural state of life.
Therefore, when one is in complete knowledge, one ceases all material sense gratification, or renounces all kinds of sense gratificatory activities.
This is practiced by the yogīs who restrain the senses from material attachment.
But a person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness has no opportunity to engage his senses in anything which is not for the purpose of Kṛṣṇa." (BG, Ch 6 text 2, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "In Vedic literature the living entity is called jīvātmā (jiva-soul) and Brahman, but he is never called Para-brahman. The living entity (jīvātmā or jiva-soul) takes different positions—sometimes he merges into the dark material nature and identifies himself with matter, and sometimes he identifies himself with the superior, spiritual nature. Therefore he is called the Supreme Lord's marginal energy.
According to his identification with material or spiritual nature, he receives a material or spiritual body. In material nature he may take a body from any of the 8,400,000 species of life, but in spiritual nature he has only one body.
In material nature he is manifested sometimes as a man, demigod, animal, beast, bird, etc., according to his karma. To attain material heavenly planets and enjoy their facilities, he sometimes performs sacrifices (yajña), but when his merit is exhausted he returns to earth again in the form of a man. This process is called karma." (BG, Ch 8 text 3, Purport)
Srila Prabhupāda - "Although living entities belong to the marginal energy of the Supreme Lord, they are in material contamination. They think themselves enjoyers, but they are not the supreme enjoyer.
Here it is clearly stated that the supreme enjoyer is the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His different manifestations and plenary expansions as Nārāyaṇa, Vāsudeva, etc." (BG, Ch 8 text 8, Purport)
Srila Prabhupāda - "The entire cosmic manifestations, moving and nonmoving, are manifested by different activities of Kṛṣṇa's energy. In the material existence we create different relationships with different living entities who are nothing but Kṛṣṇa's marginal energy; under the creation of prakṛti some of them appear as our father, mother, grandfather, creator, etc., but actually they are parts and parcels of Kṛṣṇa.
As such, these living entities who appear to be our father, mother, etc., are nothing but Kṛṣṇa. In this verse the word dhātā means "creator." Not only are our father and mother parts and parcels of Kṛṣṇa, but the creator, grandmother and grandfather, etc., are also Kṛṣṇa. Actually any living entity, being part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, is Kṛṣṇa. All the Vedas, therefore, aim only toward Kṛṣṇa." (BG, Ch 9 text 17, Purport)
Srila Prabhupāda - "The fact is that every individual living entity is eternally part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, and both of them are very intimately related as friends. But the living entity has the tendency to reject the sanction of the Supreme Lord and act independently in an attempt to dominate nature, and because he has this tendency he is called the marginal energy of the Supreme Lord. The living entity can be situated either in the material energy or in the spiritual energy. As long as he is conditioned by the material energy, the Supreme Lord, as his friend, the Supersoul, stays with him just to get him to return to the spiritual energy." (BG, Ch 13 text 23, Purport)
Srila Prabhupāda - "The living entity in his original position is pure spirit. He is just like an atomic particle of the Supreme Spirit. Thus Lord Kṛṣṇa may be compared to the sun, and the living entities to sunshine.
Because the living entities are the marginal energy of Kṛṣṇa, they have a tendency to be in contact either with the material energy or with the spiritual energy. In other words, the living entity is situated between the two energies of the Lord, and because he belongs to the superior energy of the Lord, he has a particle of independence. By proper use of that independence he comes under the direct order of Kṛṣṇa. Thus he attains his normal condition in the pleasure-giving potency." (BG, Ch 18 text 78, Purport)
Srila Prabhupāda - "The energy of the living entities is technically called kṣetrajña energy.
This kṣetrajña-śakti, although equal in quality with the Lord, becomes overpowered by material energy out of ignorance and thus suffers all sorts of material miseries.
In other words, the living entities (jiva-souls) are located in the marginal energy between the superior (spiritual) and inferior (material) energies, and in proportion to the living being's contact with either the material or spiritual energies, the living entity is situated in proportionately higher and lower levels of existence." (SB Introduction)
Srila Prabhupāda - "The Lord is beyond the inferior and marginal energies as above mentioned, and His spiritual energy is manifested in three different phases: as
eternal existence,
eternal bliss,
eternal knowledge.
As far as eternal existence is concerned, it is conducted by the sandhinī potency; similarly, bliss and knowledge are conducted by the hlādinī and saṁvit potencies respectively.
As the supreme energetic Lord, He is the supreme controller of the spiritual, marginal and material energies.
These different types of energies are connected with the Lord in eternal devotional service." (SB Introduction)
Srila Prabhupada - "Because the Lord is the absolute Transcendence, all of His forms, names, pastimes, attributes, associates and energies are identical with Him.
His transcendental energy acts according to His omnipotency.
The same energy acts as His-
external,
internal,
marginal energies,
And by His omnipotency He can perform anything and everything through the agency of any of the above energies.
He can turn the external energy into internal by His will.
Therefore by His grace the external energy, which is employed in illusioning those living beings who want to have it, subsides by the will of the Lord in terms of repentance and penance for the conditioned soul." (SB 1.3.34, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "He was not properly educated. Still, because his complete energy was engaged in the service of the Lord, he became an immortal sage.
Such is the powerful action of devotional service. The living entities are the marginal energy of the Lord, and therefore they are meant for being properly utilized in the transcendental loving service of the Lord.
When this is not done, one's situation is called māyā.
Therefore the illusion of māyā is at once dissipated as soon as one's full energy is converted in the service of the Lord instead of in sense enjoyment.
From the personal example of Śrī Nārada Muni in his previous birth, it is clear that the service of the Lord begins with the service of the Lord's bona fide servants." (SB 1.5.23, Purport)
Srila Prabhupāda - "The Absolute is mentioned here as the puruṣa, or person.
The Absolute Personality of Godhead is mentioned in so many Vedic literatures, and in the Bhagavad-gītā, the puruṣa is confirmed as the eternal and original person.
The Absolute Personality of Godhead is the perfect person.
The Supreme Person has manifold energies, out of which the internal, external and marginal energies are specifically important.
The energy mentioned here is the external energy, as will be clear from the statements of her activities.
The internal energy is there along with the Absolute Person as the moonlight is there with the moon.
The external energy is compared to darkness because it keeps the living entities in the darkness of ignorance.
The word apāśrayam suggests that this energy of the Lord is under full control." (SB 1.7.4, Purport)
Srila Prabhupāda - "Śrīla Vyāsadeva saw the all-perfect Personality of Godhead. This statement suggests that the complete unit of the Personality of Godhead includes His parts and parcels also.
He saw, therefore, His different energies, namely the internal energy, the marginal energy and the external energy.
He also saw His different plenary portions and parts of the plenary portions, namely His different incarnations also, and he specifically observed the unwanted miseries of the conditioned souls, who are bewildered by the external energy.
And at last he saw the remedial measure for the conditioned souls, namely, the process of devotional service." (SB 1.7.6, Purport)
Srila Prabhupāda - "The Lord therefore says in the Bhagavad-gītā that foolish persons consider Him to be one of the human beings without knowing the intricacies of His movements.
The bewilderment regarding Śrī Kṛṣṇa is due to the action of His twofold internal and external energies upon the third one, called marginal energy.
The living entities are expansions of His marginal energy, and thus they are sometimes bewildered by the internal energy and sometimes by the external energy.
By internal energetic bewilderment, Śrī Kṛṣṇa expands Himself into unlimited numbers of Nārāyaṇas and exchanges or accepts transcendental loving service from the living entities in the transcendental world." (SB 1.9.18, Purport)
Srila Prabhupāda - "And at the end of Lord Brahmā's life, which takes place at the end of Brahmā's one hundred years of age, in our calculation at the end of 8,640,000,000 x 30 x 12 x 100 solar years, there is complete annihilation of the entire universe, and in both the periods both the material energy called the mahat-tattva and the marginal energy called jīva-tattva merge in the person of the Supreme Lord.
The living beings remain asleep within the body of the Lord until there is another creation of the material world, and that is the way of the creation, maintenance and annihilation of the material manifestation." (SB 1.10.21, Purport)
Srila Prabhupāda - "The Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead is one without a second, but He manifests Himself by different energies because He is by nature blissful.
The living beings are also manifestations of His marginal energy, qualitatively one with the Lord, and there are innumerable living beings both within and without the external and internal energies of the Lord.
Since the spiritual world is a manifestation of the Lord's internal energy, the living beings within that internal potency are qualitatively one with the Lord without contamination from the external potency.
Although qualitatively one with the Lord, the living being, due to contamination of the material world, is pervertedly manifested, and therefore he experiences so-called happiness and distress in the material world." (SB 1.13.48, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "So all living entities, both in the conditioned state and in the liberated state, are maintained by the Almighty Supreme Lord.
Such maintenance is effected by the Lord through His different expansions of Self and three principal energies, namely the internal, external and marginal energies.
The living entities are His marginal energies, and some of them, in the confidence of the Lord, are entrusted with the work of creation also, as are Brahmā, Marīci, etc., and the acts of creation are inspired by the Lord unto them (tene brahma hṛdā).
The external energy (māyā) is also impregnated with the jīvas, or conditioned souls.
The unconditioned marginal potency acts in the spiritual kingdom, and the Lord, by His different plenary expansions, maintains them in different transcendental relations displayed in the spiritual sky." (SB 2.4.7, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "This is also explained and stated in the Bhagavad-gītā (10.42).
Thus the seventy-five percent expansion of His radiation is called His internal energy, whereas the twenty-five percent expansion is called the external energy of the Lord.
The living entities (jiva-souls), who are residents of the spiritual as well as the material expansions, are His marginal energy (taṭastha-śakti), and they are at liberty to live in either of the energies, external or internal.
Those who live within the spiritual expansion of the Lord are called liberated souls, whereas the residents of the external expansion are called the conditioned souls.
We can just make an estimate of the number of the residents of the internal expansions in comparison with the number of residents in the external energy and may easily conclude that the liberated souls are far more numerous than the conditioned souls." (SB 2.6.17, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "There are two kinds of marginal living entities: nitya-siddha and nitya-baddha but the actual constitutional position of every marginal living entity (jiva-soul) is nitya-siddha." (CC lecture, July 13, 1976)
Srila Prabhupada - "Nitya-baddhas are within this material world, beginning from Brahma down to a small ant, insignificant ant, they are all nitya-baddha. Anyone who is in this material world they are nitya-baddha." (Lecture on BG, July 14, 1973)
Srila Prabhupada - "By following the rules and regulations and instructions of the spiritual master, he 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)
Srila Prabhupada - "So the Krsna consciousness movement is to make the nitya-baddhas AGAIN nitya-siddha, to bring them to their original position. It is a difficult task." (London lecture on BG July 14, 1973)
Srila Prabhupāda - "The difference is that the impersonalist denies personality in the ultimate issue, whereas the devotee gives more importance to the Personality of Godhead.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam explains this truth in the verse under discussion-
Lord Vāsudeva is one without a second, but because He is all-powerful, He can expand Himself as well as display His omnipotencies.
The Lord is described here as omnipotent by three energies (tri-śakti-dhṛk).
So primarily His three energies are-
internal,
marginal,
external.
This external energy is also displayed in the three modes of
goodness,
passion,
ignorance.
Similarly, the internal potency is also displayed in three spiritual modes-
saṁvit,
sandhinī,
hlādinī." (SB 2.6.32, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "Because everything is an emanation from Him (the Mahā-viṣṇu or Mahā-samaṣṭi), nothing of the cosmic energies is different from Him; but all such expanded energies have specific functions and display as designed by the Lord, and therefore they are simultaneously different from the Lord.
The living entities (jiva-souls) are also similar energy (marginal potency) of the Lord, and thus they are simultaneously one with and different from Him." (SB 2.10.13, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "The Supreme Lord expands Himself in two ways, by personal plenary expansions and separated minute expansions.
The personal plenary expansions are viṣṇu-tattvas, and the separated expansions are living entities.
Since the living entities are very small, they are sometimes described as the marginal energy of the Lord.
But the mystic yogīs consider the living entities and the Supersoul, Paramātmā, to be one and the same.
It is, however, a minor point of controversy; after all, everything created rests on the gigantic virāṭ or universal form of the Lord." (SB 3.6.8, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "Devahūti expressed her happiness by uttering the word bata, for she knew that her husband was in a highly elevated, transcendental position and was under the shelter of yogamāyā.
As stated in Bhagavad-gītā, those who are great souls, mahātmās, are not under the control of the material energy.
The Supreme Lord has two energies, material and spiritual. The living entities are marginal energy.
As marginal energy, a person may be under the control of the material energy or the spiritual energy (yogamāyā).
Kardama Muni was a great soul, and therefore he was under the spiritual energy, which means that he was directly connected with the Supreme Lord.
The symptom of this is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, constant engagement in devotional service." (SB 3.23.10, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "We should always remember, as it is stated in Bhagavad-gītā, that both the gross and subtle material bodies are dresses; they are the shirt and coat of the living entity.
To be either a woman or a man only involves one's bodily dress.
The soul in nature is actually the marginal energy of the Supreme Lord.
Every living entity (jiva-soul), being classified as energy, is supposed to be originally a woman, or one who is enjoyed.
In the body of a man there is a greater opportunity to get out of the material clutches; there is less opportunity in the body of a woman.
In this verse it is indicated that the body of a man should not be misused through forming an attachment to women and thus becoming too entangled in material enjoyment, which will result in getting the body of a woman in the next life." (SB 3.31.41, Purport)
Srila Prabhupāda - "According to a verse of the Vedic mantras, parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate: (Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport) the Supreme Personality of Godhead has different varieties of energies.
Sakti is feminine, and the Lord is puruṣa, masculine.
It is the duty of the female to serve under the supreme puruṣa.
As stated in Bhagavad-gītā, all living entities (jiva-souls) are marginal energies of the Supreme Lord.
Therefore it is the duty of all living entities to serve this Supreme Person.
Durgā is the representation in the material world of both the marginal and external energies, and Lord Śiva is the representation of the Supreme Person.
The connection of Lord Śiva and Ambikā, or Durgā, is eternal.
Satī could not accept any husband but Lord Śiva. How Lord Śiva remarried Durgā as Himavatī, the daughter of the Himalayas, and how Kārttikeya was born, is a great story in itself." (SB 4.7.59, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī says that within this material world or material consciousness, good and bad are the same.
The distinction between good and bad is simply a mental concoction.
The actual fact is that all living entities are sons of God, or by-products of His marginal energy.
Because of our being contaminated by the modes of material nature, we distinguish one spiritual spark from another.
That is also another kind of dreaming. It is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā that those who are actually learned do not make any distinction between a learned scholar, a brāhmaṇa, an elephant, a dog and a caṇḍāla.
They do not see in terms of the external body; rather, they see the person as spirit soul." (SB 4.9.33, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "That is explained in the Brahma-saṁhitā. Sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ: (Bs. 5.1)
He has form, but His form is different from any kind of material form. The living entities are the marginal energy of the supreme form.
As such, they are not different from the supreme form, but at the same time they are not equal to the supreme form.
Dhruva Mahārāja is advised herewith to render service unto the supreme form.
That will include service to other individual forms. For example, a tree has a form, and when water is poured on the root of the tree, the other forms—the leaves, twigs, flowers and fruits—are automatically watered.
The Māyāvāda conception that because the Absolute Truth is everything He must be formless is rejected here.
Rather, it is confirmed that the Absolute Truth has form, and yet He is all-pervading. Nothing is independent of Him." (SB 4.12.5, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "This material energy is one of the Lord's potencies, as much as heat and light are potencies of fire.
The material energy is not different from the Supreme Godhead, but at the same time He has nothing to do with the material energy.
The living entity, who is of the marginal energy, is entrapped by the material energy on the basis of his desire to lord it over the material world.
The Lord is aloof from this, but when the same living entity engages himself in the devotional service of the Lord, then he becomes attached to this service.
This situation is called yuktam. For devotees the Lord is present even in the material energy. This is the inconceivable potency of the Lord.
Material energy acts in the three modes of material qualities, which produce the action and reaction of material existence." (SB 4.12.6, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "God is one, but He expands Himself in a variety of energies—the material energy, the spiritual energy, the marginal energy and so forth.
Unless one is favored and especially endowed with grace, he cannot understand how the one Supreme Personality of Godhead acts through His different energies.
The living entities are also the marginal energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Brahmā is also one of these living entities, but he is especially empowered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Although Brahmā is supposed to be the creator of this universe, actually the Supreme Personality of Godhead is its ultimate creator." (SB 4.17.32, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "Although Brahmā is supposed to be the creator of this universe, actually the Supreme Personality of Godhead is its ultimate creator.
In this verse the word māyayā is significant. Māyā means "energy."
Lord Brahmā is not the energetic but is one of the manifestations of the Lord's marginal energy. In other words, Lord Brahmā is only an instrument.
Although sometimes plans appear contradictory, there is a definite plan behind all action.
One who is experienced and is favored by the Lord can understand that everything is being done according to the Lord's supreme plan." (SB 4.17.32, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "Being influenced by the three modes of material nature, the living entity tries to dominate material nature, but actually he is not the puruṣa (enjoyer) but prakṛti, as described in Bhagavad-gītā (7.5):
apareyam itas tv anyāṁ prakṛtiṁ viddhi me parām.
Thus the jīva, or living entity, is actually prakṛti, or the marginal energy of the Supreme Lord.
Being associated with material energy, he tries to lord it over the material nature.
This is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā [15.7](SB 4.24.28, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "It is clearly explained that Lord Kṛṣṇa has multienergies, which can be grouped into three: namely the
1 - external energy,
2 - internal energy,
3 - marginal energy.
There are also different cosmic manifestations—namely
the spiritual world,
the material world,
as well as different types of living entities (jiva-souls)
Some living entities are conditioned, and others are eternally free.
The eternally free living entities are called nitya-mukta, for they never come in contact with the material energy.
However, some living entities are conditioned in this material world, and thus they think themselves separated from the Supreme Lord.
Due to their contact with the material energy, their existence is always troublesome.
Being always in distress, the conditioned soul considers the material energy to be very much disturbing." (SB 4.24.61, Purport)
Srila Prabhupāda - "Being influenced by the three modes of material nature, the living entity tries to dominate material nature, but actually he is not the puruṣa (enjoyer) but prakṛti, as described in Bhagavad-gītā (7.5)-
apareyam itas tv anyāṁ prakṛtiṁ viddhi me parām.
Thus the jīva-soul, or living entity, is actually prakṛti, or the marginal energy of the Supreme Lord. Being associated with material energy, he tries to lord it over the material nature. This is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā [15.7] (SB Canto 4 Ch 24 text 28, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "It is clearly explained that Lord Kṛṣṇa has multienergies, which can be grouped into three: namely-
1 - External energy (Dead material energy),
2 - Internal energy (Krsna and the different categories of spiritual [living] entities.
3 - Marginal energy (jiva-souls) sometimes covered by material energy, sometimes uncovered in the internal energy.
There are also different cosmic manifestations—namely the spiritual world and the material world—as well as different types of living entities (namely Visnu-tattva, Siva-tattva and jiva-tattva [jiva-souls]).
Some living entities (jiva-souls) are conditioned (nitya-baddha), and others are eternally free (nitya-siddha).
The eternally free living entities (nitya-siddha) are called also nitya-mukta, for they never come in contact with the material energy (while they choose to remain in the spiritual world)
However, some living entities are conditioned in this material world (nitya-baddha), and thus they think themselves separated from the Supreme Lord.
Due to their contact with the material energy, their existence is always troublesome. Being always in distress, the conditioned jiva-soul considers the material energy to be very much disturbing." (SB Canto 4 Ch 24 text 61, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "In the broader sense everyone comes from Krsnaloka (Goloka-Vrindavana). When one forgets Krsna he is conditioned (nitya-baddha), when one remembers Krsna he is liberated (nitya-siddha)." (Letter to Mukunda, June 10, 1969)
Srila Prabhupada - "There are two kinds of marginal living entities: nitya-siddha and nitya-baddha but the actual constitutional position of every marginal living entity (jiva-soul) is nitya-siddha." (CC lecture, July 13, 1976)
Srila Prabhupada - "Nitya-baddhas are within this material world, beginning from Brahma down to a small ant, insignificant ant, they are all nitya-baddha. Anyone who is in this material world they are nitya-baddha." (Lecture on BG, July 14, 1973)
Srila Prabhupada - "By following the rules and regulations and instructions of the spiritual master, he 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)
Srila Prabhupada - "So the Krsna consciousness movement is to make the nitya-baddhas AGAIN nitya-siddha, to bring them to their original position. It is a difficult task." (London lecture on BG July 14, 1973)
Srila Prabhupada - "Fire is situated in one place, but it distributes heat and light.
Similarly, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is distributing His energies in different ways."
The living entity (jiva-soul) is but one of these energies (marginal energy).
The energy and the energetic are one in one sense, but they are differently situated as energy and the energetic.
Similarly, the sac-cid-ānanda form confirmed in Brahma-saṁhitā (īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ (Bs. 5.1)) is different from that of the living entity in both his conditioned and liberated states." (SB 4.28.63, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "The living entity (jiva-soul) is the marginal energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the material world is the external energy.
Under the circumstances, one must understand that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is factually the original source of both matter and spirit.
This is explained in the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā [7.4-5](SB 4.31.13, Purport)
Srimad Bhagavatam - "Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva, the Manus, all the other demigods in the higher planetary systems, and you prajāpatis, who are increasing the population, are working for the benefit of all living entities.
Thus you expansions of My marginal energy are incarnations of My various qualities." (SB 6.4.45, Translation)
Srila Prabhupada - "The Supreme Personality of Godhead is manifested by His different energies—the material energy, the spiritual energy and the marginal energy.
He is the original source of all living entities in the material world, and He is situated in everyone's heart as the Supersoul.
Although the living entity is the cause of his various types of bodies, the body is given by material nature according to the order of the Lord." (SB 7.7.49, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "The body is just like a machine, a car, in which the living entity is given a chance to sit and move according to his desire.
The Lord is the original cause of the material body and the soul, which is expanded by His marginal energy.
The Supreme Lord is the dearmost object of all living entities.
Prahlāda Mahārāja therefore advised his class friends, the sons of the demons, to take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead again." (SB 7.7.49, Purport)
Srila Prabhupāda - "Thus both matter and the living entities are manifestations of energy of the Supreme Lord.
Since the energy and the energetic are not different and since the material and marginal energies are both energies of the supreme energetic, the Supreme Lord, ultimately the Supreme Personality of Godhead is everything. In this regard, the example may be given of gold that has not been molded and gold that has been molded into various ornaments.
A gold earring and the gold in a mine are different only as cause and effect; otherwise they are the same. The Vedānta-sūtra describes that Brahman is the cause of everything." (SB 8.12.8, Purport)
Being “generated” from the marginal plane does NOT mean the jiva-souls “originated” from some "so called place" in the Brahmajyoti or Spiritual Sky, including tatastha-sakti that foolish sangas and their nonsense guru's foolishly claim.
The jiva-souls and Kṛṣṇa have ALWAYS existed, they were never created, there is no origin or beginning point to their existence because they have ALWAYS existed as Bhagavad Gita As It Is confirms!
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)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 2 text 20 explains the jiva-souls have existed for “infinity”
This means, just like Krsna, they are beginning less and endless, and were NEVER created-
Bhagavad Gita - “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 “corrected” 1983 edition)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 2 text 12 also confirms the jiva-souls were NEVER created because they have no origin and have existed for infinity like Krsna has, as Krsna explains-
Bhagavad Gita - “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)
First of all, being "marginal" means having the choice to be influenced by either the spiritual energy (the jiva-souls nature position and full potential in the spiritual world) or by the material energy (unnatural conditioned state)
As said above, the real meaning of "marginal" means the jiva-souls can choose to be influenced by either the spiritual energy, or the material energy based on their free will.
There is no origin to the individual jiva-souls, they are eternally parts and parcel of Krsna and just as old as Krsna.
Srila Prabhupada – “The jiva-souls are Krsna's marginal energy. Marginal energy means we can live either in this external energy or in the internal energy, in between. So at the present moment we are living in the external energy. But this external energy is also Kṛṣṇa's energies, God's energy. It is not different from Him. But the external energy means we are captivated by the external energy. But the external energy is not permanent. The internal energy is permanent. The spiritual world is permanent, and the jiva-souls are also permanent as Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 2 text 20 (1983 edition) reveals.” (Lecture on BG 9.4 -Melb, Australia April 23, 1976)
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