'Those who know this (even though they still be grihasthas, householders) and those who in the forest follow faith and austerities (the vânaprasthas, and of the parivrâgakas those who do not yet know the Highest Brahman) go to light (arkis), from light to day, from day to the light half of the moon, from the light half of the moon to the six months when the sun goes to the north, from the six months when the sun goes to the north to the year, from the year to the sun, from the sun to the moon, from the moon to the lightning. There is a person not human,—

In plain words: People who understand this teaching, whether family people at home or seekers living in the forest with faith and self-discipline, travel after death along a path of brightness: light, day, the bright half of the month, the sun's northern journey, the year, the sun, the moon, and lightning. There they meet a being who is not human.