Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]Truly are these bright and dark paths of the world considered eternal: one leads to non-return; by the other, one returns.
BG 8.26
शुक्लकृष्णे गती ह्येते जगतः शाश्वते मते | एकया यात्यनावृत्तिमन्ययावर्तते पुनः ||२६||
śukla-kṛṣṇe gatī hy ete jagataḥ śāśvate mate | ekayā yāty anāvṛttim anyayāvartate punaḥ || 26 ||
"These two paths — bright and dark — are eternally established: by one none returns, by the other one returns."
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Annie Besant & Bhagavan Das, The Bhagavad Gītā (1905)
[5]These two paths, bright and dark, are considered the world's eternal paths; by the one he goeth not to return, by the other he returneth again.
William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]These two, light and darkness, are the world's eternal ways; by one a man goes not to return, by the other he cometh back again upon earth.
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]These two ways, the bright and dark, are held world-paths eternal; one leads whence no man returns, the other brings again to earth.
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]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.