Chapter 8

Verse 26

Bhagavad Gita

शुक्लकृष्णे गती ह्येते जगतः शाश्वते मते |
एकया यात्यनावृत्तिमन्ययावर्तते पुनः ||८-२६||
Transliteration

śuklakṛṣṇe gatī hyete jagataḥ śāśvate mate .
ekayā yātyanāvṛttimanyayāvartate punaḥ ||8-26||
English Meaning

8.26 These bright and dark paths out of the world have always existed. Whoso takes the former, returns not; he who chooses the latter, returns.*