There may the evil ghosts dwell– in the house infernal! There may Decay and every witch find an abode!
Atharva Veda II, 14, 3
In Yama’s realm the cow grants all desires to him who has offered her. But hell, so they say, is the lot of the one who is asked, but refuses.
Atharva Veda XII, 4, 36
And as thereupon someone might loosen the covering and say to him: ’Gandhara is in that direction; go that way’; and as thereupon, having been informed and being capable of judgement, he would, by asking his way from one village to another, arrive at last at Gandhara-in exactly the same manner does a man who has found a teacher to instruct him obtain the true knowledge. For him there is delay only so long as he is not liberated from the body; then he reaches perfection.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad VI, XIV – The Means of Self-Knowledge, 2
Around a dying person afflicted with illness, my dear, his relatives gather and ask: ’Do you know me? Do you know me?’ He knows them as long as his speech is not merged in his mind, his mind in his prana (breath), his prana in heat (fire) and the heat in the Highest Deity.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad VI, XV – Ultimate Liberation, 1
But when his speech is merged in his mind, his mind in his prana, his prana in heat and the heat in the Highest Deity, then he does not know them.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad VI, XV – Ultimate Liberation, 2
