The fifth part describes the different paths followed by souls after death. Some follow the Northern Path, leading to Brahmaloka, some the Southern Path, leading to the world of the Manes, and some, who neither practise meditation nor perform ritualistic worship, suffer miseries in subhuman bodies. The purpose of all this is to stimulate in the mind of the aspirant

The sixth part explains the non-duality of the Self—“tat tvam asi” or “That thou art” —through the story of Śvetaketu and his father Uddālaka. At the time of death, the speech of a person merges in his mind, his mind in the prāṇa, the prāṇa in heat (fire), and the heat in Sat, or Pure Being. This Pure Being is

The seventh part, through a dialogue between Nārada and Sanatkumāra, explains the various phenomenal objects. Their cause, Pure Being, was discussed in the preceding part, but not the objects themselves. If the latter remain unexplained one may think that one’s knowledge is not complete. It is further shown that though the knowledge of phenomenal entities produces a relatively good result,

The eighth part forms a sort of supplement to the two preceding parts. In the sixth and seventh parts it was taught that Brahman is non-dual and free from time, space, and attributes. But this concept is too abstruse for ordinary minds, who believe that any entity, to be real, must exist in time and space and be endowed with