In Hinduism and Jainism, a jiva (, alternate spelling, jiwa ) is a living being, or more specifically, the immortal essence of a living organism ( human, animal, fish or plant etc.

Whereas atman refers to the self, jiva refers to the living being, the exact comprehension of which varies throughout the philosophical schools.

It has a very similar usage to atma, but whereas atma refers to " the cosmic self ", jiva is used to denote an individual ' living entity ' or ' living being ' specifically.

Jivana mukta ( from the Sanskrit words jiva and mukti ) is someone who, in the Advaita philosophy of Hinduism, has gained dradh nishthaa, firmly assimilated knowledge of the Self-and is liberated while living in a human body, free from rebirth.

The soul, in many mythological, religious, philosophical, and psychological traditions, is the incorporeal and, in many conceptions, immortal essence of a person, living thing, or object.

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All are agreed that the tathāgatagarbha is an immortal, inherent transcendental essence or potency and that it resides in a concealed state ( concealed by mental and behavioural negativities ) in every single being, even the worst-the icchantika.

J. P. was not very religious but he began to read regularly some of the most basic Hindu scriptures starting with Bhagavada Gita, deriving heroic inspiration from the great battle of the Mahabharata described in the book which enlightens the concept that the essence of man is immortal.

They were obsessed with technological development and saw their inventions as a solution to everything ; replacing the immortal, magical essence of creation with mortal machinery.

20th century heirs of the 19th-century view of an unchanging, immortal quality of " Greekness " are typified in J. C. Lawson's Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion ( 1910 ) or R. and E. Blum's The Dangerous Hour: The lore of crisis and mystery in rural Greece ( 1970 ); according to the Classicist Paul Cartledge, they " represent this ideological construction of Greekness as an essence, a Classicizing essence to be sure, impervious to such historic changes as that from paganism to Orthodox Christianity, or from subsistence peasant agriculture to more or less internationally market-driven capitalist farming.

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The seat of mentation and egoic consciousness ; in humanity Manas is the human person, the reincarnating ego, immortal in essence, enduring in its higher aspects through the entire manvantara.

She also asked for Tithonus to be made immortal, but forgot to ask for eternal youth, which resulted in him living forever as a helpless old man.

When, in 1887, the French and Italian Governments agreed upon moving the mortal remains of Rossini into the Basilica di Santa Croce, in Florence, Alboni, then a sixty-one-year-old lady living in seclusion, wrote to the Italian Foreign Minister, Di Robilant, proposing that the Petite Messe Solennelle, " the last musical composition by Rossini ", be performed in Santa Croce the day of the funeral, and " demanding the honour, as an Italian and a pupil of the immortal Maestro ," of singing it herself in her " dear and beloved homeland ".

They are described as watchful and " beautiful ", but as living a sad and strange existence, as " they may not participate actively in anything " but " must look on forever ", ( which suggests they are immortal ).

This living power constitutes the ego, which is truly immaterial and immortal.

In the film, Jing Ke is, like the other principal characters, an immortal warrior living in the story's present day.

20, " no man can see me and live " ( וחי ), as if it read " no man or any living immortal can see me.

They began as a small, perfect, immortal civilization, living in peace and harmony.

Plato described a self-eating, circular being as the first living thing in the universe — an immortal, mythologically constructed entity.

Many of the people encountered have never been seen in other books: the living cut-out paper dolls created by an immortal called Miss Cuttenclip ; the anthropomorphic jigsaw puzzles known as the Fuddles ; the loquacious Rigmaroles ; the paranoid Flutterbudgets ; the living kitchen utensils of Utensia ; the anthropomorphic pastries of Bunbury ; the civilized rabbits of Bunnybury ; and the zebra, who holds geographical disputes with a crab.

Technology makes nearly everyone immortal and tremendously wealthy, except those exiled from society or living outside by choice.

* Hanno, fictional character in The Boat of a Million Years, an immortal Phoenician living to our times and beyond

Perfect humans on earth will not get sick or age, but will not be immortal, and will need to eat and breathe in order to keep living.

Toya tries to regain his memory, and he learns that he was the immortal living humanoid organism that Ceres ' celestial robe ( otherwise known as " the mana ") created to help it reunite and become one with Ceres.

A new paradox arises in these lines because these immortal lovers are experiencing a living death.

He used Man-Bot as a living power source in his scheme to destroy the Celestial Clock, thus stopping time in the universe and making himself immortal, as the only thing his chronal powers do not allow him to do is halt his own aging.

As a living skeleton, he is immortal and can remove parts of his body without harm, as is often demonstrated for comic relief.

A biologically immortal living thing can die, for example, upon receiving sufficient injury or otherwise having its body destroyed or diseased.

It supposes that the soul must be immortal since the living come from the dead.

He and David talked of living forever ( being immortal ) and the truly bad things that come with it ; after the talk and David Kim / Xombi and Rabbi Sinnowitz leave, Dumaka gives up the will to live and he dies in issue 18.

Due to technology, nearly everyone is immortal and tremendously wealthy except those living outside society due to exile or by choice.

No actual organism or individual cell is inviolably immortal ( i. e. " invincible " or " indestructible ").

According to many branches of Hinduism, the world of historical time is illusory, and the only absolute reality is the immortal soul or atman within man.

In Hinduism, " immortal " does not mean eternal.

Thought is always a form of abstraction, and thus not only is pure existence impossible to think, but all forms in existence are unthinkable ; thought depends on language, which merely abstracts from experience, thus separating us from lived experience and the living essence of all beings.

" The theory was indebted to Aristotle's pluralism and his concepts of Soul, the rational, living aspect of a living substance which cannot exist apart from the body because it is not a substance but an essence, and nous, rational thought, reflection and understanding.

The traditional ceremony culminates in the essence of the masquerade where it is deemed that ancestors return to the world of the living to visit their descendants.

Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence ( generally in the form of blood ) of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person / being.

Also in Egypt, pharaohs began to posture themselves as living gods made of an essence different from that of other human beings.

Furthermore an entire society thus built has its own essence per se, before any individual currently living in it is born, and is thus " independent of any individual ".

Some Vulcans appear able to " cheat death " by implanting their katra, essentially their living essence or spirit, into an object or another person via a form of mind-meld just prior to death.

The Ka ( k3 ) was the Egyptian concept of vital essence, that which distinguishes the difference between a living and a dead person, with death occurring when the ka left the body.

It kills living creatures to absorb their qi ( life essence ).

In Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Sarek asks Kirk to bring Spock's body back along with his katra, or living essence, to Vulcan.

Joad saw the material world as distinct from matter, and came to see the human ' spirit ' living on after death providing a kind of life force or vital essence particularly present in the natural environment where people can feel the vital force of previous generations.

These working definitions involve concepts which are described by the Tribunal as being: Mauri is having a living essence or spirit.

It represents in essence, therefore, within the strict compass of rigorous legal and inductive precepts, the adaptation of the living and powerful deen to a new situation in order to enable it to take root and flourish in fresh soil.

So, in definition, while the five elements are the material cause of all living beings, they cannot be called evolvents because living beings are not separate from the five elements in essence.

In the ancient world, things did not exist until they were named: " The name of a living being or an object was ... the very essence of what was defined, and the pronouncing of a name was to create what was spoken.

Also, the title Quicksilver connects the book to the method alchemists used to distill quicksilver, " the pure living essence of God's power and presence in the world ", from, as one character put it, " the base, dark, cold, essentially fecal matter of which the world was made.

Looked at purely formally, human society has a natural line of development in accordance with its essence just like any other living thing.

It is only the idea that we are the body that keeps us from living what he calls our " original essence ", the True Self, in Hinduism referred to as Atman.