PRAŚNA UPANISHAD · 1.9

संवत्सरो वै प्रजापतिस्तस्यायने दक्षिणं चोत्तरं च ।
तद्ये ह वै तदिष्टापूर्ते कृतमित्युपासते ते चान्द्रमसमेव
लोकमभिजयन्ते । त एव पुनरावर्तन्ते तस्मादेत ऋषयः
प्रजाकामा दक्षिणं प्रतिपद्यन्ते । एष ह वै रयिर्यः
पितृयाणः ॥ १.९॥

saṃvatsaro vai prajāpatistasyāyane dakṣiṇaṃ cottaraṃ ca ।
tadye ha vai tadiṣṭāpūrte kṛtamityupāsate te cāndramasameva
lokamabhijayante । ta eva punarāvartante tasmādeta ṛṣayaḥ
prajākāmā dakṣiṇaṃ pratipadyante । eṣa ha vai rayiryaḥ
pitṛyāṇaḥ ॥ 1.9॥

“The year also is that Eternal Father and of the year there are two paths, the northern solstice and the southern. Now they who worship God with the well dug and the oblation offered, deeming these to be righteousness, conquer their heavens of the Moon; these return again to the world of birth. Therefore do the souls of sages who have not yet put from them the desire of offspring, take the way of the southern solstice which is the road of the Fathers. And this also is Matter, the Female.

Sri Aurobindo · CWSA 18, p. 177