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days knowing Brahman he goes with Brahman. "- 24
धूमो रात्रिस्तथा कृष्ण: षण्मासा दक्षिणायनम् । तत्र चान्द्रमसं ज्योतिर्योगी प्राप्य निवर्तते ॥ २५ ॥
"But if he the departs in the smoke, the night , dark weeks of, and the months of “Dakshinayam” he goes to the land of returns"-25 Note: Literarily speaking these verses suggest that
that fate of Yogi who dies on particular days is determined by the day when he dies. If any such meaning is accepted it goes totally against the core of its philosophical teachings as the fate of one who is Brahma -Nistha can not be determined by the accident of his death on a particular day. Therefore, the only rational meaning which can be aseribed to these verses is that one who dies with the light of true knowledge goes to the place from which there is no return, while one who dies in the darkness of ignorance has to take rebirths Following
verse No.26 supports this view. शक्लकृष्णे गती होते जगतः शाश्वते मते । OUT THIŞItutacat q: il pę II
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