Bhagavad Gita -Srila Prabhupada 376

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita As It Is -Shri Shrimad A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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Attaining the Supreme
Chapter 8: Verse-26

sukla-krsne gati hy ete jagatah säsvate mate
ekayä yäty anävrttim anyayävartate punah[1]

TRANSLATION

According to Vedic opinion, there are two ways of passing from this world—one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back; but when one passes in darkness, he returns.


PURPORT

The same description of departure and return is quoted by Äcärya Baladeva Vidyäbhüsana from the Chändogya Upanisad[2]. Those who are fruitive laborers and philosophical speculators from time immemorial are constantly going and coming. Actually they do not attain ultimate salvation, for they do not surrender to Krsna.


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References

  1. sukla=light; krsne=and darkness; gati=ways of passing; hi=certainly; ete=these two; jagatah=of the material world; säsvate=of the Vedas; mate=in the opinion; ekayä=by one; yäti=goes; anävrttim=to no return; anyayä=by the other; ävartate=comes back; punah=again.
  2. 5.10.3–5

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