December 17,2012.Day 112. BHAGAVAD GITA - As It Is Original by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. Chapter 2. (Continued) TEXT 69.

 Chapter 2. Contents of the Gita Summarized

  TEXT 69

 ya nisa sarva-bhutanam 
tasyam jagarti samyami 
yasyam jagrati bhutani 
sa nisa pasyato muneh

 SYNONYMS

         ya--what; nisa--is night; sarva--all; bhutanam--of living entities;tasyam--in that; jagarti--wakeful; samyami--the self-controlled;yasyam--in which; jagrati--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. The 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 reaction.