BHAGAVAD-GITA 2:69

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 2:69

 

ya nisa sarva-bhutanam

tasyam jagarti samyami

yasyam jagrati bhutani

sa nisa pasyato muneh

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

ya--what; nisa--is night; sarva--all; bhutanam--of living entities;

tasyam--in that; jagarti--is wakeful; samyami--the self-controlled;

yasyam--in which; jagrati--are awake; bhutani--all beings; sa--that

is; nisa--night; pasyatah--for the introspective; muneh--sage.

 

TRANSLATION

 

What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the

self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for

the introspective sage.

 

PURPORT

 

There are two classes of intelligent men. One is intelligent in

material activities for sense gratification, and the other is

introspective and awake to the cultivation of self-realization.

Activities of the introspective sage, or thoughtful man, are night for

persons materially absorbed. Materialistic persons remain asleep in

such a night due to their ignorance of self-realization. The

introspective sage remains alert in the "night" of the materialistic

men. The sage feels transcendental pleasure in the gradual advancement

of spiritual culture, whereas the man in materialistic activities,

being asleep to self-realization, dreams of varieties of sense

pleasure, feeling sometimes happy and sometimes distressed in his

sleeping condition. The introspective man is always indifferent to

materialistic happiness and distress. He goes on with his

self-realization activities undisturbed by material reactions.

 

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