Smoke, night, the dark fortnight, the six months of the southern solstice, (dying) in these, the devotee goes to the lunar light and returns. These two paths, bright and dark, are deemed to be eternal in this world. By the one, (a man) goes never to return, by the other he comes back. Knowing these two paths, O son of Pritha! no devotee is deluded. Therefore at all times be possessed of devotion, O Arguna!