A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy c6.s3.t2.50

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35. In the Chhāndogya Upanishad, on the other hand, as we have pointed out, the eschatological idea undergoes a deal of transformation. There we are told that there are two ways open to the mortals, the bright way and the dark way, the "archirmārga" and the "dhūma-mārga," the "devayāna" and the "pitṛiyāna," the Way of the Gods, and the Way of the Fathers. It is these two paths which were later immortalised in the Bhagavadgīta¹ as they are already adumbrated in the hymns of the Ṛigveda².