Body Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

“Your body is of no more value than that of John.”

— Swami Vivekananda

The body cannot be the soul.

— Swami Vivekananda

Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

Body is the name of a series of changes.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

The body and mind are dependent.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a…

— Swami Vivekananda

According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there…

— Swami Vivekananda

As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this…

— Swami Vivekananda

Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body…

— Swami Vivekananda

When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad -…

— Swami Vivekananda

Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind…

— Swami Vivekananda

Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body…

— Swami Vivekananda

If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by…

— Swami Vivekananda

All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between…

— Swami Vivekananda

“This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is higher than all…

— Swami Vivekananda

Stick to God! Who cares what comes to the body or to anything else! Through the terrors of evil, say-my God, my…

— Swami Vivekananda

He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever…

— Swami Vivekananda

In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must…

— Swami Vivekananda

When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad -…

— Swami Vivekananda

Do you believe in that Infinite, good Providence working in and through you? If you believe that this Omnipresent One is present…

— Swami Vivekananda

Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery?…

— Swami Vivekananda

Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used…

— Swami Vivekananda

What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one…

— Swami Vivekananda

We can form no idea of the millions of pounds that are spent every year in the making of dress in the…

— Swami Vivekananda

There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is…

— Swami Vivekananda

It is the want that creates the body.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.

— Swami Vivekananda