eternal soul
Deathless inner self
The eternal soul is the immaterial essence of a person believed to survive bodily death and exist forever.
The concept appears across religions and philosophies, though specifics vary—some traditions hold the soul is reborn, others that it proceeds to heaven, hell, or another realm.
She believed her eternal soul would be judged by God.
The phrase often appears in contexts of salvation, damnation, or ultimate moral stakes.
- heavenSky or bliss
- life after deathContinued existence posthumously
- nirvanaRelease from cyclical existence
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
- resurrectionRevival from death
beyond the grave · atman · divine spark · inner light · permanence · immortality · anima · karma · afterlife · breath of life · immutability · transcendence · timelessness · never ending · existentialism · oversoul · cosmic consciousness · enlightenment
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
- immortalityimmortality, immortals, everlasting life, deathlessness, deathless
- VedantaAdvaita, Brahman, Atman, maya, moksha
- Hindu conceptsmoksha, karma, atman, dharma, karma yoga
- karmacomeuppance, good deeds, poetic justice, karmic debt, what goes around comes around
eternal soulmortal body
Finite physical existence
physical body · corporeal form · bodily form · flesh and blood · mortal coil
eternal souloblivion
Complete erasure from memory
annihilation · nothingness · non-existence · the void · extinction