The individual jiva-souls being “generated” from the "marginal plane" does not mean they “originated” from a beginning point in the brahmajyoti, Spiritual Sky or tatastha-sakti. This is because there is no beginning point for the individual jiva-souls due to them being beginningless and endless.
Being “generated” means the individual jiva-souls are eternally part and parcel of a category of living personalities called the “marginal living entities” (individual jīva-souls) who are independently separated from other living entities like-
1 - Visnu-tattva (direct expansions of Krsna known as Visnu/Narayana expansions)
2 - Visnu-sakti-tattva (Radharani and Her unlimited associates)
3 - Siva-tattva (Lord Siva and his many expansions)
The individual jiva-souls are NEVER created Krsna, or appear from a “clear state of inactive consciousness” from the impersonal brahmajyoti, or emerge from the Body of Maha-Visnu, who the individual jiva-souls take shelter of (go through to obtain a suitable material bodily vessel from) after leaving the spiritual world’s of the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana.
The individual jiva-souls do not appear (generated) from any origin point including “tatastha-sakti” because they were NEVER created, the individual jiva-souls are eternal like Krsna is.
Therefore, the eternal individual jiva-souls never originated from the impersonal brahmajyoti, tatastha-sakti or the Body of Maha-Visnu.
In actual fact, all the above are an already fallen condition of the individual jiva-souls they have fallen too Prabhupada explains.
Srila Prabhupada - "So this temporary material world is the taṭastha the fallen materially conditioned characteristics, and the spiritual world is the permanent non-conditioned spiritual characteristics. So our effort is to get out of this taṭastha (materially conditioned) characteristics and enter the permanent non-conditioned characteristics. That is called spiritual elevation." (Lecture CC Madhya-lila 20.354-358, New York City, Dec 28, 1966)
Srila Prabhupada - "Because the individual jiva-soul is apt to fall down sometimes under the clutches of māyā, it is called taṭastha śakti." (Lecture BG, Ch 7 Text 4-5 Bombay, March 30, 1971)
Also, there is no Maya or material energy in the spiritual world however, there is always “free will” that allows the individual jiva-souls to even accept or reject Krsna if they choose.
Srimad Bhagavatam explains the fall down of the marginal living entity (individual jiva-soul) from Goloka-Vrindavana to the material creation in the 4th Canto Chapter 28 text 53, where the Supreme Lord is disguised as a brahmana.
The brāhmaṇa said - "My dear friend, even though you cannot immediately recognize Me, can't you remember that in the past you had a very intimate friend? Unfortunately, you gave up My company and accepted a position as enjoyer of this material world." (SB, Canto 4 Ch 28 text 53)
The brahman effulgence (impersonal brahmajyoti), is an already "fallen condition" the eternal individual jiva-souls can fall down too however, they can never remain in that "fallen condition" eternally because the nature of the individual jiva-souls is ultimately to be eternally “active” in the service of Krsna.
Eventually, the fallen jiva-souls are forced to leave that dormant inactive condition in the impersonal brahmajyoti because of their eternal nature to be eternally active, and not be inactive.
So, eventually the fallen individual jiva-souls leave the impersonal brahmajyoti and again take birth in the material world.
Revatīnandana dasa - "Srila Prabhupāda you very clearly explained to me once in a letter that if the jiva-soul then goes into the brahmajyoti, he is considered still fallen. Still fallen. Does that means the whole brahmajyoti is composed of fallen souls? You see my question? If I go there, I'm a jīva-soul, and I go to the brahmajyoti I'm still fallen."
Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes."
Revatīnandana dasa - "That means all individual jīva-souls in the impersonal Brahman (Brahmajyoti) are also fallen souls?"
Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes, existence in the impersonal brahman is also within the category of non-Krsna consciousness. Those who are in the brahman effulgence are also in the fallen condition, so there is no question of falling down from a fallen condition. When fall takes place, it means falling down from the non-fallen condition (Goloka-Vrindavana and Vaikuntha). The non-fallen condition is Krsna consciousness." (Letter to Revatinandana, LA 13 June, 1970 and 1971 London)
The fact is, we are all "old jiva-souls" because we have ALWAYS existed without origin as Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter two teaches.
The individual jiva-souls are eternal spiritual living PERSONS and can never be destroyed, terminated, extinguished or cut into pieces, the individual jiva-souls are indestructible.
There was no beginning to the marginal living entities (individual jiva-souls) existence, nor will there be an end.
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, 9 July 1970)
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)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - “As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change." (BG, Ch 2 text 13)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - “O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed." (BG, Ch 2 text 14)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - “Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent [the material body] there is no endurance and of the eternal [the soul] there is no change. This they have concluded by studying the nature of both." (BG, Ch 2 text 16)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - “That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul." (BG, Ch 2 text 17)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - “Neither he who thinks the living entity the slayer nor he who thinks it slain is in knowledge, for the self slays not nor is slain." (BG, Ch 2 text 19)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "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 - "O Pārtha, how can a person who knows that the soul is indestructible, eternal, unborn and immutable kill anyone or cause anyone to kill?" (BG, Ch 2 text 21, 1983)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones." (BG, Ch 2 text 22)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind." (BG, Ch 2 text 23)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same." (BG, Ch 2 text 24)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "It is said that the soul is invisible, inconceivable and immutable. Knowing this, you should not grieve for the body." (BG, Ch 2 text 25)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "One who has taken his birth is sure to die, and after death one is sure to take birth again. Therefore, in the unavoidable discharge of your duty, you should not lament." (BG, Ch 2 text 27)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "Some look on the soul as amazing, some describe him as amazing, and some hear of him as amazing, while others, even after hearing about him, cannot understand him at all." (BG, Ch 2 text 29)
Bhagavad Gita As It Is - "O descendant of Bharata, he who dwells in the material body can never be slain. Therefore, you need not grieve for any living being." (BG, Ch 2 text 30)
As Srila Prabhupada clearly said above, all individual jiva-souls are eternal meaning they are beginningless and endless and were never created.
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, 9 July 1970)
If the individual jiva-souls choose to do so, they can stay in the temporary decaying material universe's cycles of birth and death and cycles of annihilation and creations for an almost infinity!
The conclusion-
There is no origin to Krsna's marginal energy (an unlimited number of individual jiva-souls), who have existed for as long as Krsna has existed, which means eternity!.**..
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