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Here's also what Srila Prabhupada said in this regard, in his books. It

speaks on how the spirit soul "falls down from the service of the Lord".

 

Srimad-Bhagavatam Canto 4: Chapter Twenty-eight, Text 53, Purport:

 

 

"When the living entities desire to enjoy themselves, they develop a

consciousness of duality and come to hate the service of the Lord. In this

way the living entities fall into the material world. In the prema-vivarta

it is said:

 

krsna-bahirmukha hana bhoga-vancha kare

nikata-stha maya tare japatiya dhare

 

The natural position of the living entity is to serve the Lord in

a transcendental loving attitude. When the living entity wants to

become Krsna Himself or imitate Krsna, he falls down into the

material world. Since Krsna is the supreme father, His affection

for the living entity is eternal. When the living entity falls

down into the material world, the Supreme Lord, through His

svamsa expansion (Paramatma), keeps company with the living

entity. In this way the living entity may some day return home,

back to Godhead.

 

By misusing his independence, the living entity falls down from

the service of the Lord and takes a position in this material

world as an enjoyer. "

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Here are excerpts from two letters the Srila Prabhupada sent to Upendra

prabhu regarding our 'original position'. One letter is from 1968 and one

from 1969.

 

 

"Regarding your question, in one sense both you and Mahapurusa are right. The

fact is that after the dissolution of the Universe the living entities remain

in slumber within Maha Visnu, and again when the creation takes place they

are impregnated in their original position and they come out in different

species of life. By gradual evolutionary process, when they come to the human

form there is good chance of getting out of the repeated birth and death, and

one can enter into the Spiritual Realm. But if one loses this chance he is

again put into the cycle of birth and death. The conditioned souls are always

within the Maha Visnu Form, whereas the liberated souls in Vaikuntha, they

are engaged in the service of the Lord. Constitutionally every living entity,

even if he is in the Vaikuntha Loka, has chance of falling down. Therefore

the living entity is called marginal energy. But when the falldown has taken

place for the conditioned soul is very difficult to ascertain. Therefore two

classes are designated: eternally liberated and eternally conditioned. But

for arguments sake, a living entity being marginal energy, he can't be

eternally conditioned. The Time is so unlimited that the conditioned souls

appear to be eternally so, but from the philosophical view he cannot be

eternally conditioned. Since we cannot trace out when we have become

conditioned, there is no use of arguing on this point. Better to take care

first how we can get rid of this conditional existence; as much as a patient

should take care for treating his disease more, and less waste his time in

finding out the cause of his disease.

Please offer my blessings to the others. I hope this will meet you in good

health."

 

 

"Regarding your question--What does it mean: ``We are all originally Krsna

conscious entities.''--We are always with Krsna. Where is not Krsna present?

So how you can say that we were before? You are always with Krsna and when we

forget this fact we are far, far away from Him. In the Isopanisad it is

clearly stated that tad dure tad vantike ``He is very away, but He is very

near as well.'' (Iso. mantra 5). So this forgetfulness is our falldown. It

can take place at any moment, and we can counteract this forgetfulness

immediately rising to the platform of Krsna consciousness."