Srila Prabhupada on the origin of the jiva

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Srila Prabhupada:

 

According to Visnu Purana, Bhagavad-gita and all other Vedic

literature's, the living entities are generated from the tatastha energy

of the Lord. (Bhag. 3.7.9, purport)

 

The conclusion is that the origin of all life is the bodily effulgence

of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is confirmed in

Brahma-samhita: yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-ananda-koti. (Bhag.

4.30.5, purport)

 

Thus the body is considered material and the soul is considered

spiritual. The origin of them both, however, is the same Supreme

Personality of Godhead. . . Everything is born of the Supreme Brahman,

from which everything emanates as different energies. (Bhag. 8.12.8,

purport)

 

The symptoms of the rainy season may be compared to the symptoms of the

living entities who are covered by the three modes of material nature.

The unlimited sky is like the Supreme Brahman, and the tiny living

entities are like the covered sky, or Brahman covered by the three modes

of material nature. Originally, everyone is part and parcel of Brahman.

The Supreme Brahman, or the unlimited sky, can never be covered by a

cloud, but a portion of it can be covered. As stated in the

Bhagavad-gita, the living entities are part and parcel of the Supreme

Personality of Godhead. But they are only an insignificant portion of

the Supreme Lord. This portion is covered by the modes of material

nature, and therefore the living entities are residing within this

material world. The brahmajyoti-spiritual effulgence-is just like the

sunshine; as the sunshine is full of molecular shining particles, so the

brahmajyoti is full of minute portions of the Supreme Personality of

Godhead. Out of that unlimited expansion of minute portions of the

Supreme Lord, some are covered by the influence of material nature,

whereas others are free. [Krsna Book, Ch. 20, Description of Autumn]

 

The all-pervading feature of the Lord which exists in all circumstances

of waking and sleeping as well as in potential states and from which the

jiva-sakti (living force) is generated as both conditioned and liberated

souls-is known as Brahman. (Isopanisad, Text 16, purport)

 

As we have learned from previous mantras, the brahmajyoti emanating from

the transcendental body of the Lord is full of spiritual sparks that are

individual entities with the full sense of existence. Sometimes these

living entities want to enjoy their senses, and therefore they are

placed in the material world to become false lords under the dictation

of the senses. (Isopanisad, Text 17, purport)

 

As spiritual sparks of the beams emanating from the transcendental body

of the Lord, we are all permanently related with Him and equal to Him in

quality. (C.C. Madhya-lila 5.22)

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