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The Son of Droṇa Punished
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statements of her activities. The internal energy is there along with the Absolute Person as the moonlight is there with the moon. The external energy is compared with darkness because it keeps the living entities in the darkness of ignorance. The word  apāśrayam  suggests that this energy of the Lord is under full control. The internal potency or superior energy is also called  māyā , but it is spiritual  māyā , or energy exhibited in the absolute realm. When one is under the shelter of this internal potency, the darkness of material ignorance is at once dissipated. And even those who are  ātmārāma , or fixed in trance, take shelter of this  māyā  or internal energy. Devotional service, or  bhakti-yoga , is the function of the internal energy; thus there is no place for the inferior energy or material energy, just as there is no place for darkness in the effulgence of spiritual light. Such internal energy is even superior to the spiritual bliss attainable in the conception of impersonal Brahman. It is stated in the  Bhagavad-gītā  that the impersonal Brahman effulgence is also an emanation from the Absolute Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa. The  Parama-Puruṣa  cannot be anyone except Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself, as it will be explained in the later  ślokas .
TEXT 5
यया सम्मोहितो जीव आत्मानं त्रिगुणात्मकम् । परोऽपि मनुतेऽनथं तत्कृतं चाभिपद्यते ॥ ५ ॥
yayā sammohito jīva   ātmānam tri-guṇātmakam   paro 'pi manute 'nartham   tat-kṛtam cābhipadyate
yayā —by whom;  sammohitaḥ —illusioned;  jīvaḥ —the living entities;  ātmānam —self;  tri-guṇa-ātmakam —conditioned by the three modes of nature, or a product of matter;  paraḥ —transcendental;  api —in spite of;  manute —takes it for granted;  anartham —things not wanted;  tat —by that;  kṛtam ca —reaction;  abhipadyate —undergoes thereof.
TRANSLATION
Due to this external energy, the living entity, although transcendental to the three modes of material nature, thinks of himself as a material product and thus undergoes the reactions of material miseries.