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| Chapter 8: Attaining the Supreme |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Bhagavad-gita As It Is 8.26
anyayavartate punah
SYNONYMS
sukla -- light; krsne -- and darkness; gati -- ways of passing; hi -- certainly; ete -- these two; jagatah -- of the material world; sasvate -- of the Vedas; mate -- in the opinion; ekaya -- by one; yati -- goes; anavrttim -- to no return; anyaya -- by the other; avartate -- comes back; punah -- again.
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 Acarya Baladeva Vidyabhusana from the Chandogya Upanisad (5.10.3-5). 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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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness