8.25 धूमो रात्रिस्तथा कृष्णः षण्मासा दक्षिणायनम्। तत्र चान्द्रमसं ज्योतिर्योगी प्राप्य निवर्तते
dhūmo rātris
Word meanings
dhūmaḥ—smoke;rātriḥ—night;tathā—and;kṛiṣhṇaḥ—the dark fortnight of the moon;ṣhaṭ-māsāḥ—six months;dakṣhiṇa-ayanam—the sun’s southern course;tatra—there;chāndra-masam—lunar;jyotiḥ—light;yogī—a yogi;prāpya—attain;nivartate—comes back
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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The southern course of the sun, consisting of six months, is smoke, night, and darkness. Departing in it, the yogi attains the light of the moon and returns.
But if he departs in gloom, at night, during the fortnight of the waning moon and in the six months before the Southern solstice, then he reaches but lunar light and he will be born again.
Smoke, night, the dark fortnight, the six months of the southern course of the sun—the Yogin who takes this path reaches the light of the moon and returns.
Smoke, night, as also the dark fortnight and the six months of the Southern solstice-following this Path the yogi having reached the lunar light, returns.
Attaining to the lunar light by smoke, night-time, the dark fortnight or the six months of the southern path of the sun (the southern solstice), the Yogi returns.
8.27 नैते सृती पार्थ जानन्योगी मुह्यति कश्चन। तस्मात्सर्वेषु कालेषु योगयुक्तो भवार्जुन
na
Word meanings
na—never;ete—these two;sṛitī—paths;pārtha—Arjun, the son of Pritha;jānan—knowing;yogī—a yogi;muhyati—bewildered;kaśhchana—any;tasmāt—therefore;sarveṣhu kāleṣhu—always;yoga-yuktaḥ—situated in Yog;bhava—be;arjuna—Arjun
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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O son of Prtha, no Yogin, knowing these two courses, gets deluded. Therefore, O Arjuna, practice Yoga connected with all times.
O Arjuna! The saint knowing these paths is not confused. Therefore meditate perpetually.
No Yogin who knows the two paths is ever deluded. Therefore, O Arjuna, be integrated with Yoga always.
O son of Prtha, no yogi [One steadfast in meditation.) whosoever has known these two courses becomes deluded. Therefore, O Arjuna, be you steadfast in yoga at all times.
Knowing these paths, O Arjuna, no Yogi is deluded! Therefore, at all times be steadfast in Yoga.
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अक्षरब्रह्मयोग
Chapter 8: The Nature of Brahman
akṣarabrahmayoga
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8.26 शुक्लकृष्णे गती ह्येते जगतः शाश्वते मते। एकया यात्यनावृत्तिमन्ययाऽऽवर्तते पुनः
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Word meanings
śhukla—bright;kṛiṣhṇe—dark;gatī—paths;hi—certainly;ete—these;jagataḥ—of the material world;śhāśhvate—eternal;mate—opinion;ekayā—by one;yāti—goes;anāvṛittim—to non return;anyayā—by the other;āvartate—comes back;punaḥ—again
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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For, these two bright and dark paths are considered to be perpetual for the world. One attains non-return by the first of these, and one returns back by the other.
These bright and dark paths out of the world have always existed. Whoso takes the former, returns not; he who chooses the latter, returns.*
These two paths, the bright and the dark, are said to be eternal. By the former one, a man goes to the plane of no-return, by the other, he returns again.
These two courses of the world, which are white and black, are verily considered eternal. By the one a man goes to the State of Non-return; by the other he returns again.
The bright and the dark paths of the world are verily thought to be eternal; by the one (the bright path) a person goes not to return again, and by the other (the dark path) he returns.
