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are thrown more and more into the darkness of ignorance, and thus such demoniac persons transmigrate life after life without any knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The sane man, however, is enlightened in the disciplic succession from Brahmājī, who was personally instructed by the Lord, or in the disciplic succession from Arjuna, who was personally instructed by the Lord in the  Bhagavad-gītā . He accepts the statement of the Lord,  aham sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvam pravartate/ iti matvā bhajante mām budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ  (Bg.10.8). The Lord is the original source of all emanations, and everything that is created, maintained and annihilated exists by the energy of the Lord. The sane man who knows this is actually learned, and therefore he becomes a pure devotee of the Lord, engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord.
Although the reflectory energy of the Lord displays various illusions to the eyes of persons with a poor fund of knowledge, the sane person knows clearly that the Lord can act, even from far, far beyond our vision, by His different energies, just as the fire can diffuse heat and light from a distant place. In the medical science of the ancient sages, known as the  Āyur-veda , there is definite acceptance of the Lord's supremacy in the following words: " jagad-yonir anicchasya cid-ānandaika-rūpiṇaḥ puṁso 'sti prakṛtir nityā praticchāyeva bhāsvataḥ acetanāpi caitanya-yogena paramātmanaḥ akarod viśvam akhilam anityam nāṭakā-kṛtim. " There is one Supreme Person who is the progenitor of this cosmic manifestation, whose energy acts as  prakṛti , or the material nature, dazzling like the reflection. By such illusory action of the  prakṛti , even the dead matter is caused to move by the cooperation of living energy of the Lord, and the material world appears like a dramatic performance to the ignorant eyes. The ignorant person, therefore, may even be a scientist or physiologist in the drama of  prakṛti , while the sane person knows the  prakṛti  as the illusory energy of the Lord. By such a conclusion, and as is confirmed by the  Bhagavad-gītā , it is clear that the living entities are also a display of the superior energy ( parā prakṛtiḥ ) of the Lord, just as the material world is a display of the inferior energy ( aparā prakṛtiḥ ) of the Lord. The superior energy of the Lord cannot be as good as the Lord, although there is very little difference between the energy and the possessor of the energy, or the fire and the heat. Fire is possessed of heat, but heat is not fire. This simple thing is not understood by the man with a poor fund of knowledge who falsely claims that the fire and heat are the same. This energy of the fire (namely heat) is explained here as a reflection, and not directly fire. Therefore the living energy represented by the living entities is the reflection of the Lord, and