Six attributes of the Atman are given here: unborn (aja), eternal (nitya), everlasting (śāśvata), primeval (purāṇa), never-destroyed even when the body is destroyed (na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre). These deny birth, death, and temporal change to the Self, establishing it as beyond all causation.

This is the most direct statement of the immortality of the soul. Modern interpretations often limit immortality to the survival of consciousness after bodily death, but this verse goes far further: the Atman was never born in any birth, hence it can never die in any death. It is Existence Absolute, beyond time itself.