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Bhagavad-gītā 8.26
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 26
- शुक्लकृष्णे गती ह्येते जगतः शाश्वते मते ।
- एकया यात्यनावृत्तिमन्ययावर्तते पुनः ॥२६॥
- śukla-kṛṣṇe gatī hy ete
- jagataḥ śāśvate mate
- ekayā yāty anāvṛttim
- anyayāvartate punaḥ
śuklalight — light; kṛṣṇeand darkness — and darkness; gatīways of passing — ways of passing; hicertainly — certainly; etethese two — these two; jagataḥof the material world — of the material world; śāśvateof the Vedas — of the Vedas; matein the opinion — in the opinion; ekayāby one — by one; yātigoes — goes; anāvṛttimto no return — to no return; anyayāby the other — by the other; āvartatecomes back — comes back; punaḥagain — again.
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.
The same description of departure and return is quoted by Ācārya Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa from the Chāndogya Upaniṣad (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 Kṛṣṇa.