@sidharthabahadur Hmm, very interesting thoughts there. Yes, these Chiranjeevi sound somewhat similar to translated beings. I would guess that any immortal beings that do exist would need to keep themselves out of sight of necessity. Imagine how many people would beg or even extort them to reveal the secrets of immortality. I can definitely imagine them hiding among the benevolent areas of the inner earth where they can be undisturbed by such concerns.
Also, what you say about the preparation for the next Golden Age sounds similar to our beliefs. I think many translated beings are waiting in preparation for the Second Coming to reveal themselves, which will usher the Millennium (or a new Golden Age, if you will).
Furthermore, I would like to point out that it seems that immortality often doesn't come to those who actively seek it without a real purpose. E.g., the alchemists, kings, emperors, etc. All of these people want to be immortal simply because they don't want to die. But do they have a truly altruistic purpose in wanting immortality, or is it merely a selfish desire?
Immortality seems to come more often to those who either weren't seeking after it in the first place, or they had a very specific selfless wish to fulfill. E.g., William Morgan didn't seem to be seeking after immortality in Etidorhpa, yet that's what he seems to have gotten after reaching a certain level. On the other hand, John the Beloved and the Three Nephites had a specific selfless wish to fulfill, which was to be able to stand as special witnesses of Jesus Christ to those in later generations.
In order to do this, they were blessed to not taste of death. From 3 Nephi 28:4-12:
And when he had spoken unto them, he turned himself unto the three, and said unto them: What will ye that I should do unto you, when I am gone unto the Father?
And they sorrowed in their hearts, for they durst not speak unto him the thing which they desired.
And he said unto them: Behold, I know your thoughts, and ye have desired the thing which John, my beloved, who was with me in my ministry, before that I was lifted up by the Jews, desired of me.
Therefore, more blessed are ye, for ye shall never taste of death; but ye shall live to behold all the doings of the Father unto the children of men, even until all things shall be fulfilled according to the will of the Father, when I shall come in my glory with the powers of heaven.
And ye shall never endure the pains of death; but when I shall come in my glory ye shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye from mortality to immortality; and then shall ye be blessed in the kingdom of my Father.
And again, ye shall not have pain while ye shall dwell in the flesh, neither sorrow save it be for the sins of the world; and all this will I do because of the thing which ye have desired of me, for ye have desired that ye might bring the souls of men unto me, while the world shall stand.
And for this cause ye shall have fulness of joy; and ye shall sit down in the kingdom of my Father; yea, your joy shall be full, even as the Father hath given me fulness of joy; and ye shall be even as I am, and I am even as the Father; and the Father and I are one;
And the Holy Ghost beareth record of the Father and me; and the Father giveth the Holy Ghost unto the children of men, because of me.
And it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken these words, he touched every one of them with his finger save it were the three who were to tarry, and then he departed.
It's always interesting to see parallels in other belief systems with my own. It suggests that there's some truth to be gleaned somewhere.