Gauragopala Das ACBSP: All individual jiva-souls (marginal living entities) are eternal personalities as spiritual bodily forms who are beginningless and endless like Krsna.

The spiritual body of the eternal individual jiva-soul is always a bodily form.

Srila Prabhupada - "An individual spiritual body is not formless; it is a different type of body, of which we cannot conceive with our present mundane material senses." (SB, Canto 2 Ch 9 text 32, Purport)

Srila Prabhupada - "God is also an individual person as you are individual person, I am individual person, but the difference between God and you and me is this, that you know your business, I know my business, but God knows everyone's business. That is the difference." (Lecture Melb, Australia April 3, 1972)

Srila Prabhupada - "Free will means that you can act wrongly if you choose, 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 dasa – "A man may know better but still act wrongly."

Srila Prabhupada – "Yes, but that is free will. He misuses his. Just like a thief, he knows that his 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. Unless there is misuse of free will, there is no question of free will." (Excerpt: Discussions on Rene Descartes philosophy)

All individual jiva-souls are eternal personalities as a spiritual bodily form, who are beginningless and endless like Krsna.

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)

Because of free will, a small minority of individual jiva-souls choose to enter the temporary material world, coming from their real perpetual home on the Vaikuntha planets of Visnu, or from Krsna's Abode of Goloka Vrindavana.

Srila Prabhupada – “If you have no free will, then you are a stone. The stone has no free will. You want to be stone? Then you must have free will! But don't misuse your free will. But don't try to become stone either. That is not life.” (Aug 5, 1976, New Mayapur France)

The individual jiva-souls have no origin to their existence because they have always existed.

This means they did not originate from an already fallen condition like the impersonal (dormant) brahmajyoti, or from the Body of Maha-Visnu who created the material world that includes all material bodily vessels the visiting individual jiva-souls from the spiritual world, "hire" off Him so they can enter the temporary material world.

Every material bodily vessel in the material creation must be first "hired" from Maha-Visnu who owns them all.

The visiting jiva-souls who enter the material creation, must first obtain (hire) a material bodily vessel from Maha-Visnu's dreams. Every temporary material bodily vessel in the material creation are "hired" from Maha-Visnu who owns them all.

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)

Each individual jiva-soul (devotee) in the spiritual world can "choose" to "voluntarily" serve Krsna in an unlimited variety of ways as an unlimited variety of spiritual bodily forms of their choose, or even reject Krsna if they choose and enter or return to the impermanent material world, or fall even futher to the inactive (dormant) impersonal brahmajyoti.

Srila Prabhupada - "Dormant continuation (existing inactively) in the impersonal brahmajyoti by the individual jiva-souls trying to escape the repeated birth and death of the material world, is not spiritual, it is also within the category of non-Krsna consciousness. Those in the impersonal brahmajyoti are already in a fallen condition that they had previously fallen too, so there is no question of falling down from an already fallen condition like the impersonal brahmajyoti. When fall takes place it means falling down from the non-fallen condition, and that non-fallen condition are the Vaikuntha planets and Goloka-Vrindavana." (Letter to Revatinandana dasa, July 1970)

All the material bodily vessels in the material world belong to Maha-Visnu and must be aquired from Him in order to enter the material world.

However, all such material bodily vessels are temporary and subject to constant decline, decay and always in need of constant maintenance, nothing made of temporary matter lasts forever in the material world, everything is always in a constant state of decomposition or decay.

This causes the eternal individual jiva-souls within those material bodies, who are visiting from the spiritual worlds as passengers in those bodily vessels, to continue taking birth after birth in the material world and continue trying to satisfy their desires and material senses.

The temporary material world is created and maintained by Krsna's expansion's

1 - Karanarnavasayi Visnu (Maha-Visnu), who creates all the unlimited massive Brahmanda universes.

2 - Garbhodakashayi Visnu (Hiraņyagarbha) who creates a "secondary material universe" inside the massive surrounding Brahmanda universe.

3 - Ksirodakasayi Visnu (Paramatma or Super Soul) who resides next to every marginal living entity (jiva-soul) within what ever material bodily vessel they take out of the 8 million 400 species of material life.

Srila Prabhupada - "For material creation, Krsna's plenary expansion assumes three Visnus. The first, Mahā Viṣṇu, creates the total material energy, known as the mahat-tattva. The second, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, enters into all the universes to create diversities and the third, Kṣīrodakaśāyī Visnu, is diffused as the all-pervading super soul in all the universes; in the heart of every living being, is known as Paramātmā. He is present even within the atoms.The goal of life is to know Kṛṣṇa, who is situated within the heart of every living being as Paramātmā, the four-handed Viṣṇu form." (BG, Ch 7 text 4 Purport)

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, July 9, 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 - "O best among men [Arjuna], the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation." (BG, Ch 2 text 15)

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 - “The material body of the indestructible, immeasurable and eternal living entity is sure to come to an end; therefore, fight, O descendant of Bharata." (BG, Ch 2 text 18)

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)

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 - "If, however, you think that the soul [or the symptoms of life] is always born and dies forever, you still have no reason to lament, O mighty armed." (BG, Ch 2 text 26)

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 - "All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation?"(BG, Ch 2 text 28)

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)

1 - The eternal individual jiva-souls being "marginal" have the choice to be influenced by the "active" spiritual energy which is the individual jiva-souls natural constitutional position and full potential in the spiritual world

2 - Or they can choose to be influenced by the material energy, an unnatural conditioned position the individual jiva-soul falls too. There the conditioned individual jiva-souls remain "active" in conditional material life, covered by the temporary repeated cycle of birth and death.

3 - Or the fallen condition jiva-souls can fall further by seeking out an "inactive" dormant conditional state in the impersonal brahmajyoti to escape the suffering and pain of being embodied in the material world and trapped in the cycle of repeated birth and death.

The individual jiva-souls can fall to an inactive or dormant state called the impersonal brahmajyoti, but they certainly did not originate from there or can eternally remain there.

Entering the impersonal brahmajyoti or brahman is also only a temporary relief for the eternal jiva-souls who enter there to escape the suffering and pain of being embodied in the material world and trapped in the cycle of repeated birth and death.

The implications of existing as an individual life force for infinity means the individual jiva-soul can, over the eternity of time, be anyone and almost every material bodily vessel there is over that eternity.

There is no limitations to what the eternal individual jiva-souls can experience in the material world because the stage is infinite and the individual jiva-souls are indestructible and therefore will always exist.

As said above, the meaning of "marginal" means the eternal individual jiva-souls can choose to be influenced by either the spiritual energy (their natural constitution position), or the material energy (there unnatural fallen condition) based on their free will.

There is no origin to the individual jiva-souls who are eternal parts and parcel of Krsna and just as old as Krsna.

Srila Prabhupada – "The individual 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 individual jiva-souls are also permanent because they are individual personalities from the permanent spiritual world as Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 2 reveals." (Based on comments Prabhupada made in Melbourne Australia 1976).