immortality
idea · 4 works · 7 mentions · 15 anchored passages
ageless life · amṛta · immortal · immortal distinction
spoken of as
1 expressionAmṛta“Immortality”1 mention
Sāmaveda (Sanskrit)
Waxing to fullness for immortality, O Soma, place your highest glories in the sky.
in the texts
Rigveda
The state of deathlessness sought as a protective clothing for the warrior in battle.
may King Soma clothe you about with immortality;
We shall grant you ageless life, O Agni, so that, O Jātavedas, harnessed, you shall not be harmed.
Now, O sages who are being perfected, sharpen yourselves with the chisels with which you work for immortality.
Symposium
The mortal creature's yearning to partake in permanence through offspring, fame, or works
From what has been admitted, we needs must yearn for immortality no less than for good, since love loves good to be one’s own for ever.
by getting children they acquire an immortality, a memorial, and a state of bliss, which in their imagining they for all succeeding time procure.
since all are beset by this eagerness and this love with a view to immortality.
Sāmaveda
The state of deathlessness attributed to Soma, Agni, and the Cosmic Person.
Waxing to fullness for immortality, O Soma, place your highest glories in the sky.
He is the lord of immortality, and of all that grows and flourishes through food.
For you indeed, O purifying one, are the most brilliant of divine births, proclaiming for the sake of immortality.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The concept of immortality, sought by Indrajit as the price of releasing Indra and ultimately granted in modified, conditional form.
and Indra was released by Indrajit, and the gods departed to the heavens.
but I have established this immortality through valour.
"Complete immortality does not exist for any living being on earth.