Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Human Body
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The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.
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The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.
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The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.
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No two persons have the same mind or the same body.
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Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery? When you have the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say-I have reached the state of fearlessness!...and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: 'Thou art That', 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'
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The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
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Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.
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In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings.
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Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies.
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There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher than the worship of any dead symbols.
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The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot.
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This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that makes us feel heat and cold, pain and pleasure.
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The body cannot be the soul.
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There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed.
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The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.
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According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.
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We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do.
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Body is the name of a series of changes.
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When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.
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The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the being in the body who is working the body by means of the internal organ or the mind.
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The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.
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Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our slavery; so much so that we long to perpetuate it, and go on with "body" "body" for ever. Do not cling to the idea of "body", do not look for a future existence in any way like this one; do not love or want the body, even of those dear to us.
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It is the want that creates the body.
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This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.
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It is a constant change. Not one body is constant.
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The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.
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Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change.
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The body and mind are dependent.
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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing.
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