Swami Vivekananda Body Quotations

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.

When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.

When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.

The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end.

Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.

This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness.

This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.

The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.

We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do.

This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.

There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed.

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.

The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.

The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.

The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.

The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.

The body cannot be the soul.

The body and mind are dependent.

No two persons have the same mind or the same body.

It is the want that creates the body.

It is a constant change. Not one body is constant.

In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings.

Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change.

Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing.

Body is the name of a series of changes.

Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies.

All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.

The law of attraction which holds good for the heavenly bodies also holds good for the smallest particles.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols."

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is the Atman, because all is Atman.

All motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana.