Text 5] The Son of Drona Punished 321

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 apdsrayam suggests that this energy of
the Lord is under full control. The internal potency or superior energy
is also called maya, but it is spiritual maya, 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 a@tmdrama, or fixed in trance, take shelter of this maya 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-gita
that the impersonal Brahman effulgence is also an emanation from the
Absolute Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna. The Parama-Purusa cannot be
anyone except Sri Krsna Himself, as it will be explained in the later slokas.

TEXT 5

TT Tet ta aed BART |
WITT Adds Ted ATAg 14 I

yaya sammohito jiva
atmanam tri-gunatmakam

paro ’pi manute ’nartham
tat-krtarn cabhipadyate

yaya—by whom; sammohitah—illusioned; jivah—the living entities;
atmanam—self; tn-guna-atmakam—conditioned by the three modes of
nature, or a product of matter; parah—transcendental; api—in spite of;
manute—takes it for granted; anartham—things not wanted; tat—by that;
krtam 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.
