The next step in the destiny of the soul is determined by his reaction to this God. If his life on Earth was well lived, he will now be in a state of purity and grace, and he will enter into the joy of the God and attain liberation. If on the other hand he has lived an ignoble and impious life, the effects of his bad karma will cause the intense radiant presence of the God to strike fear and terror in his heart, and he will be drawn instead to the softer light of the Deva-Loka , which has dawned along with this deity. Liberation is believed to be the only final and permanent resting-place for the soul, an unmanifest state beyond all existence. Even the most wretched souls will eventually work their way out of even the deepest pit of Hell, just as even the highest and purest souls will eventually lose their footing in Heaven and descend again into the cycle of death and rebirth.
Liberation is the only way out.
On the sixth day all the deities return and dawn together, along with the lights from all six Lokas. The instructions at this stage of the Bardo are for the soul to have no fear, but rather to recognize that the Wrathful Deities are really the Peaceful Deities in disguise, their dark side manifesting as a result of his own evil karma. Furthermore, he is told to awaken to the fact that all these fearsome creatures are not real, but are merely illusions emanating from his own mind. If he can recognize this, they will vanish and he will be liberated. If he can't, he eventually wanders down to the third bardo.