{
  "book_title": "Bhagavad-gītā As It Is",
  "chapter": 8,
  "verse": 26,
  "reference": "Bg 8.26",
  "devanagari": "शुक्लकृष्णे गती ह्येते जगतः शाश्वते मते\nएकया यात्यनावृत्तिमन्ययावर्तते पुनः",
  "transliteration": "śukla-kṛṣṇe gatī hy ete\njagataḥ śāśvate mate\nekayā yāty anāvṛttim\nanyayāvartate punaḥ",
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "śukla",
      "meanings": [
        "light"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "kṛṣṇe",
      "meanings": [
        "darkness"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "gatī",
      "meanings": [
        "passing away"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "hi",
      "meanings": [
        "certainly"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "ete",
      "meanings": [
        "all these"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "jagataḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "of the material world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "śāśvate",
      "meanings": [
        "the Vedas"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "mate",
      "meanings": [
        "in the opinion"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "ekayā",
      "meanings": [
        "by one"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "yāti",
      "meanings": [
        "goes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "anāvṛttim",
      "meanings": [
        "no return"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "anyayā",
      "meanings": [
        "by the other"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "āvartate",
      "meanings": [
        "comes back"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "punaḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "again."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translation": "<b>According to the Vedas, 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.</b>",
  "purport": [
    "The same description of departure and return is quoted by Ācārya Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa from the <i>Chandogya Upaniṣad. </i>In such a way, 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."
  ]
}