神々とアスラ（阿修羅）は長く続く戦いに疲れていた。ヴィシュヌ神がブラフマー（梵天）に言う。
「神々とアスラの両者で大海を攪拌すれば、不老不死の霊薬アムリタを得ることができるだろう・・・」
そうして神々は、攪拌棒としてマンダラ山を引き抜いて海に運び、大蛇ヴァースキ竜王をそれに巻き付け、神々とアスラはその端を引っ張ってマンダラ山をぐるぐる回して大海を攪拌し始めた。
The gods and Asura were tired of the long drawn out battle. Vishnu says to Brahma, “If both the gods and the Asuras churn the ocean, they will obtain the elixir of immortality, Amrita.
If both the gods and the Asuras churn the ocean, they will obtain the elixir of immortality, Amrita…”
So the gods pulled out Mount Mandala as a stirring rod and carried it into the ocean, wrapped the serpent Dragon King Vaski around it, and the gods and Asuras began to stir the great ocean by pulling on its ends and turning Mount Mandala around and around.
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“But wouldn’t it be scary if it really was immortality?”
“It would be like the ultimate punishment, wouldn’t it?”
It would be horrible to be unable to die, no matter how far you go.