5).
The greatest discrepancies in eschatology occur perhaps in the [=A]itareya [=A]ranyaka.

After death one either "gets _brahma_" (i.

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2), "comes near to the immortal spirit" (1.3.8.

14), or goes to the "heavenly world." Knowledge here expressly conditions the hereafter; so much so that it is represented not (as above) that fools go to heaven and return, but that all, save the very highest, are to recognize a personal creator (Praj[=a]pati) in breath (=ego=_brahma_), and then they will "go to the heavenly world" (2.3.8.