Krishna summarizes the fundamental cosmic binary of the soul's trajectory. He concludes: These two specific paths (gatī hy ete) of the material universe (jagataḥ)—the path of brilliant Light (śukla) and the path of Darkness/Smoke (kṛṣṇe)—are definitively considered and known to be eternal and perpetual (śāśvate mate). By traveling on the one path (ekayā), a soul goes to the state of absolute non-return and liberation (yāty anāvṛttim). By traveling on the other path (anyayā), the soul inevitably returns and is reborn again (āvartate punaḥ).