The bright and the dark: the bright, because it makes knowledge shine; the dark, for want of that. These two are held to be the two courses of the world, that is, of those eligible for knowledge and for action, not of the whole world; they are everlasting, eternal, since transmigration is eternal. By the one, the bright, one goes to non-return; by the other one returns again, comes back.

The bright course is the path of light and the rest; the dark is the path of smoke and so on. By the bright they go to no-return; by the dark they return again. These two, the bright and the dark, the courses of the men of knowledge of various kinds and of the doers of meritorious action, are held in revelation to be everlasting: 'those who know thus, and those who in the forest worship with faith, holding it to be austerity, they come to the flame'; and 'but those who in the village worship with the thought of the sacrifice-and-gift, the offered, they come to the smoke'.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.