Chapter 2 verse 69
“That, which is night for all beings, in that the
self-controlled man keeps awake; where all beings are awake, that is the night for
the Sage (Muni) who sees”
This sloka is another curve ball for me. The only way I can
understand is that night is used as a metaphor of avidya or lack of knowledge.
When the common person is living without knowledge of Self or avidya or
darkness, the realized person is in light and when there is awareness all
around, the self realized person can rest assured as if it is his night. The
champion wall street investor-Warren Buffet usually says that when everyone is
afraid, he invests and when everyone is flocking to buy stocks, he stays away.
The Oracle of Omaha must have read the Bhagavat Gita or some version of it! Are
there other ways to think about this verse?
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