The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Chāndogyopaniṣadbhāṣyam

Verse 215

अथ यदु चैवास्मिञ्छव्यं कुर्वन्ति यदिच नार्चिषमेवाभिसंभवन्त्यर्चिषोऽहरहआपूर्यमाणपक्षमापूर्यमाणपक्षाद्यान्षडुद-ङ्ङेति मासाँस्तान्मासेभ्यः संवत्सरँसंवत्सरादादित्यमादित्याच्चन्द्रमसं चन्द्र-मसो विद्युतं तत्पुरुषोऽमानवः स एना-न्ब्रह्म गमयत्येष देवपथो ब्रह्मपथ एतेनप्रतिपद्यमाना इमं मानवमावर्तं नावर्त-न्ते नावर्तन्ते ॥ ५ ॥

In plain words

Now, whether funerary rites are performed for this knower or not, he passes into the flame, and from the flame into the day, and from the day into the bright fortnight, and from the bright fortnight into the six northern months of the sun, and from those months into the year, and from the year into the sun, and from the sun into the moon, and from the moon into lightning. There a non-human person guides them to Brahman. This is the path of the gods, the path to Brahman. Traveling by this path, they never return to this human whirlpool—they never return.

Close to the Sanskrit

Now, whether or not they perform the corpse-rite for this knower, they reach the flame, from flame the day, from day the bright fortnight, from the bright fortnight the six months which the sun goes northwards, from the months the year, from the year the sun, from the sun the moon, from the moon lightning; there a non-human person causes them to go to Brahman. This is the path of the gods, the path to Brahman. Proceeding by this, they do not return to this human whirlpool, they do not return.