Devayana
देवयान devayāna'The path of the gods,' the bright afterlife road described in the Panchagni Vidya of the Chandogya Upanishad. Those devoted to knowledge and truth travel it through fire, day, and the sun toward Brahman, and do not return to rebirth.
Where this term appears
- What happens after death in Hinduism? Essentials
The first is the devayana , the "path of the gods." Those who have devoted themselves to knowledge and truth travel this bright road through fire, day, the waxing moon, and the sun, and, the text says, they do …
- The vehicle Treatise
There is the devayana , the path of the gods, also called the path of light: the way of those who have known the Self, leading through fire, day, the bright fortnight, the northward course of the sun, and on to…
- The Mundaka Upanishad: two birds, and the lower knowledge Treatise
It is a sentence about the devayana , the way of the gods, the northern path this treatise met in the Prashna and the Isha.
- The Prashna Upanishad: six questions, one year of waiting Treatise
The text names only the path of the Fathers; the tradition calls its northern twin the devayana , the way of the gods, after the older Upanishads that pair the two.
- The Sun's Two Roads Treatise
The tradition calls it the auspicious half, the devayana , the day of the gods.