Gita Bhashya -Sankara 343

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -8

Dhūmo rātris-tathā krsnah santnāsā daksināyanam Tatra cāndrainasam jyotir-yogl pr āpya nivartate 25. Smoke, night-time, and the dark fortnight, the six months of the southern passage of the sun-taking this path, the yogi attaining the lunar light returns. Smoke, night-time, the deities presiding over smoke and night-time, and the dark fortnight, the deity presiding over the dark fortnight, the six months of the southern passage of the sun, referring also to the presiding deity, as in the previous instances; taking this path, the yogi, the karmin, performer of actions such as sacrifices, attaining the lunar light, i.e. enjoying the fruit (of his actions there), returns, on its exhaustion.