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PURPORTE
When fire, light, day and moon are mentioned, it is to be understood that over all of them there are various presiding deities who make arrangements for the passage of the soul. At the time of death, the  jīva  sets forth on the path to a new life. If one leaves the body at the time designated above, either accidentally or by arrangement, it is possible for him to attain the impersonal  brahmajyoti . Mystics who are advanced in  yoga  practice can arrange the time and place to leave the body. Others have no control—if by accident they leave at an auspicious moment, then they will not return to the cycle of birth and death, but if not, then there is every possibility that they will have to return. However, for the pure devotee in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, there is no fear of returning, whether he leaves the body at an auspicious or inauspicious moment, by accident or arrangement.
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धूमो रात्रिस्तथा कृष्णः षण्मासा दक्षिणायनम् । तत्र चान्द्रमसं ज्योतिर्योगी प्राप्य निवर्तते ॥२५॥
dhūmo rātris tathā kṛṣṇaḥ ṣaṇ-māsā dakṣiṇāyanam tatra cāndramasaṁ jyotir yogī prāpya nivartate
dhūmaḥ —smoke;  rātriḥ —night;  tathā —also;  kṛṣṇaḥ —the fortnight of the dark moon;  ṣaṭ-māsāḥ —the six months;  dakṣiṇa-ayanam —when the sun passes on the southern side;  tatra —there;  cāndramasam —the moon planet;  jyotiḥ —light;  yogī —the mystic;  prāpya —achieves;  nivartate —comes back.
TRANSLATION
The mystic who passes away from this world during the smoke, the night, the moonless fortnight, or in the six months when the sun passes to the south, or who reaches the moon planet, again comes back.
PURPORT
In the Third Canto of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  we are informed that those who are expert in fruitive activities and sacrificial methods on earth