Within the dharmashastric tradition espousing "sati" as a justified, and even recommended, option to ascetic widowhood, there remained a curious conception worth noting the achieved status for a woman committing "sati". Burning herself on the pyre would give her, and her husband, automatic, but not eternal, reception into heaven (svarga), whereas only the wholly chaste widow living out her natural life span could hope for final liberation (moksha) and breaking the cycle of rebirth. Thus, acknowledging that performing "sati" only achieved an inferior otherworldy status than successful widowhood could achieve, "sati" became recommended when coupled with a dismissal of the effective possibility for a widow to remain truly chaste.