God or the Supreme Being is beyond all regions and spheres. The higher regions are occupied by the celestial beings. There are also nether regions which are inhabited by souls of inferior nature. There is no language of communication and people can communicate using thought waves as medium. There are still higher spheres where people have great powers by which they can create any object by a mere thought. In this sphere it is possible to create environment out of imagination and Pushpa creates the same scenery as was present in her native place consisting of the river Ganga and its bank where she and Jatin used to play as children. Jatin stays in the third sphere along with Pushpa. He meets Valmiki, the ancient poet who composed Ramayana. He meets the great Vaishnava saint Raghunath Das who worships the living image of his personal God. He also meets a sannyasin or ascetic monk who attained the nirvikalpa samadhi and hence is a liberated soul. There is a certain goddess who in the novel is referred to as Karuna Devi or goddess of compassion, who, out of the desire for the welfare and well being of ordinary mortals, comes to the earth to help people. Jatin meets many characters who shape his knowledge and wisdom on death, human relationship and its existence beyond human life, life after death, God, Atman, reincarnations, divine manifestations or avatars and Karma. Jatin learns death is not the end of everything, but, it is just a beginning of a new life. Pushpa tells Jatin that she has come to take him with her. Right after his death Jatin discovers Pushpa, his very intimate childhood friend who died 13 years ago is standing beside his bed. After suffering from high fever Jatin dies. Jatin has met neither his wife nor his children for years. His wife Ashalata has deserted him and lives in her maternal house with their children. Though he is highly educated yet he is unemployed and poor. Jatin, the male protagonist of the novel, a Brahmin lives in a village. The exact sloka, however does not take the name "Devyaan". Gita refers to these two paths as the "White" and the "Black" paths, one which leads to eternal life and the other compels one to return to the world. A soul traversing this path will have to return to the world again for reaping the fruits of Karma. The description of this path occurs in Upanishads and also in Gita. a soul traversing this path will be liberated according to the ancient Indian scriptures. The name Debjan is derived from the Sanskrit word "Devyaan" which literally translated as the path of Gods. The work is a fiction and deals with life after death. Debjan is a Bengali novel written by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay.