Twain Of Paths Trodden Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

If there be ways for passing from this world—
One, lit with light o' truth, or utter blight,
Deeds white-light washed, or lost in darkling night,
One of knowledge, other a karmic bird;
One that passeth in light, knowing his ways,
Walking past Pearly Gate, endless light earns,
The other, lost in tangled dark alleys,
He may paradise earn, but soon returns.

The Lord a beacon doth bear of bright haze,
And weareth wisp of lustrous-darkling veils,
That no man is dazed in His radiant gaze,
He showeth light, wisheth that no man fails,
That he doth find hope in his darkling days,
He hath modes working in strangest of ways.
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Bhagavad-Gita (8.26)has this to say:

Trodden are twain of paths for long,
One bright, one dark to some belong,
A path of no-return man treads,
Or back to mortal world he bids.

Christian faith says:
God has 70,000 veils of light and darkness; if He were to remove them, the radiant splendours of His face would burn up whoever was reached by His gaze (Hadith) .

Light and darkness are the world's eternal ways.
- Zarathrustra
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