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Sometimes the pebbles are covered by the water and sometimes they are uncovered

Revatinandan das : We were walking right along the shoreline and Prabhupada was talking about the pebbles on the shoreline, that we are like those pebbles. He said tatastha shakti means in the margin, can turn toward Krishna or away from Krishna. Sometimes the pebbles are covered by the water and sometimes they are uncovered. He made it sound like it was almost very random.
 
But he said that's similar to the position of the living entity as marginal energy. For him the tatastha region wasn't an area in space or something, it was the attitude of the souls. The jivas form the tatastha shakti. They have the capacity to turn toward Krishna or away from Krishna by nature, and that is the meaning of this marginal energy.


Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Revatinanadan Swami