According to the legend, the souls of the little ones had ascended to shine on high, eternal witness to the cruelty of their dam.

The purified soul can then ascend into heaven.

After the Sun sets that day, her soul ascends to heaven for good, and she leaves with a smile on her face.

I come here today in the name of six million whose lives were turned into ashes, whose souls ascended to heaven in the burning flames.

There are times of such privation and horror that few souls ascend to Him in peace at all.

In the grand Halleluja my soul almost ascended from my body.

Her soul ascends to Heaven.

Krishna's soul then ascended to heaven, while his mortal body was cremated by Arjuna.

The soul could ascend to God in a long, steady journey that would continue after death.

(The soul of the murdered poet, symbolized by a light, does not now ascend to heaven.)