Now in the world of the gods, now among men, and now among intermediate orders of Being, he has to appear again and again. If in course of time he succeeds in crossing that Ocean of Ignorance in which he is sunk, he then succeeds in avoiding completely re-birth and attaining to oneness with the Supreme Soul.
देवलोकं तथा तिर्यड्मनुष्यमपि चाश्नुते। यदि शुध्यति कालेन तस्मादज्ञानसागरात्॥