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Originally Posted by JustASimpleGuy
Not exactly. Here's my understanding of the Advaita perspective.
If one is particularly virtuous however not yet Enlightened when the body dies one will potentially go to a Heaven. It's not escaping rebirth, just postponing it for uncounted millennia until that appearance too is dissolved in a kind of Great Recycling where all apparent manifestations dissolve leaving only the Unmanifest, the Absolute. The cycle then repeats as it always has because it's infinite and without beginning or end.
To be honest who knows for sure? After all It is Ineffable, but if one does subscribe to non-dualism it's One without a second and that includes Gods. That being said if the Ineffable can appear as people and planets and galaxies and universes it can surely appear as Gods in Heavens too.
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gods are people too, only in the future. You may be a mortal now, but you could be a god in the future or might have been one in the past. It is only due to the limitation of the fourth dimension, time, in which we are trapped, that we see a distinction between our past, present and future self. To a god all of them are present simultaneously, due to their higher dimensional nature. It is the higher Self that strings all of these incarnations together and passes on information as needed.