The marginal living entities or jiva-tattva (jiva-souls) are Krsna's "separated" expansions who have 50 qualities of Krsna's 64 qualities (78.125%)
Srila Prabhupada - "The "immediate" expansions of the Lord are called svāṁśa or "personal direct" expansions (known as Visnu-tattva, where the Lord Himself plays a different role in His own pastimes). The "separated" expansions of the Krsna are called vibhinnāṁśa (marginal living entities or jiva-souls endowed with independence and free will) like us." (BG 10.37, Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "We (the jiva-souls) 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 25 April, 1969)
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." (Intro BG As It Is, Los Angeles, Nov 23, 1968)
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 corrected 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 "corrected" 1983 edition)
Srila Prabhupada - "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)
The jiva-souls or the individual marginal living entities, possess up to the limit of 78.125% of Krsns's attributes.
Srila Prabhupada - "Learned scholars in transcendental subjects have carefully analyzed the summum bonum Krsna to have sixty-four principal attributes. All the expansions or categories of the Lord possess only some percentages of these attributes. But Sri Krsna is the possessor of the attributes cent percent (64 qualities). His personal expansions such as svayam-prakasa, tad-ekatma up to the categories of the avataras who are all visnu-tattva, possess up to 93.75% (60 of Krsna's 64 qualities) of these transcendental attributes." (SB Canto 1 Ch 3 text 29)
Lord Siva is neither avatara nor avesa, nor in between them; he possesses 85.938% of Krsna's attributes (having 55 qualities out of Krsna's 64 qualities).
Different figures are given in different Sastras but the mathematical fact is 55/64=85.938%
The jiva-souls or the individual marginal living entities, possess up to the limit of 78.125% of Krsns's attributes.
The jiva-souls can never be Visnu-tattva (God) or Siva-tattva.
Although the jiva-souls can eventually become a Brahma who is also jiva-soul with 78.125% of Krsna's qualities.
Siva is Kṛṣṇa's greatest devotee in a mysterious category of his own. Siva-tattva is not Visnu-tattva (God) or jiva-tattva (the jiva-soul) Siva has 55 of Krsna's 64 qualities which is 85.938% of Krsns's attributes.
Srila Prabhupada - "So the sixty-four qualities of Kṛṣṇa have been analyzed. We have got in minute quantities.
And amongst the living entities, the highest perfection is to be seen in the life of Brahmā (who is alsi jiva-soul), who is the chief living entity within this universe.
So similarly, Lord Śiva has got fifty-five.
Lord Nārāyaṇa (Visnu) has got sixty.
But Kṛṣṇa has got in full sixty-four cent percent, hundred percent all the qualities.
Therefore, either Lord Śiva or Lord Brahmā or the living entities, nobody can be equal to Him. This is the conception of God." (SB, Canto 5.5.1, Lecture - Los Angeles, January 20, 1969)
Understanding the percentages other living beings have of Krsna's 64 qualities.
The mathematics is simple, Siva has 55 of Krsna's 64 qualities, so 55/64 = 85.938%.
The maths can not be denied, check for yourself-
1- 55/65 for Siva = 85.938%
2 - 60/64 for Viṣṇu/Narayana = 93.75%,
3 - 50/64 for jiva-souls = 78.125%**
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