"To control the senses in every direction is the mark of the sthitaprajña." What is night for all beings, in that the sthitaprajña stays awake. When all beings are awake, the sthitaprajña is asleep. (That is, day is night to him, and night is day.) Commonly in the world people take this in its literal meaning, but that does not measure up to the mark of the sthitaprajña. That is, they think that when ordinary people sleep at night the sthitaprajña is awake, and that the day, when ordinary people are awake, is night for the sthitaprajña. The hidden meaning of this is very subtle. Ordinary people stay wakeful in worldly matters. That is, to run rampant in the senses among their objects is what waking means. But the sthitaprajña stays turned away from such senses and their objects; that is, he sleeps. To restrain the senses among their objects is sleeping; to stir up sense objects is waking. When ordinary people let their senses run rampant, the sthitaprajña's senses sleep. This can also be put another way. Forgetting the state of the Ātma and taking on the state of the body: these are the states of ordinary people. Ordinary people forget, and sleep in the state of the Ātma, and are awake in the state of the body. The sthitaprajña is not like that: he is awake in the state of the Ātma and asleep in the state of the body. This is "the state of the sthitaprajña". In the state of the Ātma, where ordinary people are unwakeful, the sthitaprajña moves wakefully; among the vāsanās for sense objects, where ordinary people are wakeful, the sthitaprajña moves unwakefully. This is the subtle meaning. But if one gives only the literal meaning, that the sthitaprajña sleeps when everyone is awake and wakes when everyone sleeps, then thieves, Gurkhas, watchmen and all such people stay awake through the nights and sleep by day, do they not? Must all of them be sthitaprajñas, then?