Sanskrit Verse
Ya nisha sarva-bhutanam tasyam jagarti samyami yasyam jagrati bhutani sa nisha pashyato muneh
Translation & Meaning
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. The world of sense pleasures that ordinary beings pursue is darkness (night) for the sage; and the inner world of the self that the sage inhabits is darkness (night) for ordinary beings. Wisdom and ignorance perceive entirely different realities.
Key Teachings
- •The sage and the ordinary person live in opposite states of consciousness
- •What appears as reality to the worldly mind is ignorance to the wise
- •True wakefulness is inwardness; ordinary wakefulness is a form of sleep
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