What is day for the ordinary people is night to the
Maunis. And what is night to ordinary ones is day to the Jnanis.
Day is symbolic of activity and night is symbolic of silence. When the
worldly people are engaged in diverse activities during the day, the sages
turn inward and engage themselves in contemplation. When the common people
are steeped in Tamas and Tamasic life during the nights, the Jnanis keep
awake looking at the light of knowledge within and without.
Neither the activity of the day, nor the silence of the night is a hindrance
to the onward march of the austere ones. They are blind to the day's disturbances.
And they keep awake in the night's silence.
Neither the advantages nor the disadvantages of the ordinary people impede
the progress of spiritual practitioners.
The ordinary people's rajasic day of action is the sattvic silence of
spiritual sadhana to the aspirants. And their Tamasic night of indulgence
and indolence is the sattvic brightness of spiritual light to the austere
sadhakas.
Worldly people are after materialism. Even spirituality is encashed by
the worldly people for materialistic purpose.
Yogis on the other hand are always after spiritual pursuits. Even the
materialistic enterprises are transformed into spirituality by them. There
is nothing that is not sacred to them.
Materialism is binding. Spirituality is liberating.
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