Right after his death Jatin discovers Pushpa, his very intimate childhood friend who died 13 years ago is standing beside his bed.

He meets the great Vaishnava saint Raghunath Das who worships the living image of his personal God.

Most of the souls of the higher realms are believer in God and they spend their time meditating upon the Supreme Being.

When all ignorance is dispelled people are liberated from the earthly existence and they go to the higher spheres or realms from where they progress even further.

It is possible for the earthlings to degenerate and go to nether lands or to inferior regions in the after life if that helps them in gaining knowledge and wisdom in the hard way.

Jatin could not relinquish his infatuation for Ashalata which landed him in trouble as he had to born again in a poor rural household in Bengal.

In the book Jatin visits many spheres courtesy the different souls of higher realms who help him in his quest of knowledge, but he is unable to get rid of his infatuation and therefore has to be born again.

The book ends with a description of what the Supreme Being is and what is His relationship with the world, in accordance with the different scriptures in Hinduism.

The book also touches upon long standing debates in Hindu theology like that between Advaita Vedanta which believes that one Supreme Impersonal Godhead Brahman permeates the entire Universe and the creation is the superimposition of this impersonal through Maya, and Vaishnavism, which is a dualist doctrine, i.e. it believes in God separate from the creation, viz.

The concepts of different Lokas or hierarchical regions beyond the material sphere is influenced by a similar depiction in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.