Granth Sahib Quotes on Body (90 Quotes)

When the body is filled with ego and selfishness, the cycle of birth and death does not end.

Bring the twenty-seven elements of the body under your control, and throughout the three stages of life, remember death.

Listen, O my mind, my friend, my darling, now is the time to meet the Lord. As long as there is youth and breath, give this body to Him. Without virtue, it is useless the body shall crumble into a pile of dust.

The empty body is dreadful, when the soul goes out from within. The burning fire of life is extinguished, and the smoke of the breath no longer emerges. The five relatives (the senses) weep and wail painfully, and waste away through the love of duality.

You are not conscious of God, and your body shall be cast into the wilderness. Focus your consciousness on the True Guru you shall enjoy bliss forever and ever.

Within my mind and body is the intense pain of separation how can my Beloved come to meet me in my home

O Baba, the pleasures of other foods are false. Eating them, the body is ruined, and wickedness and corruption enter into the mind.

Without the oil, how can the lamp be lit Let the reading of your prayer book be the oil, and let the Fear of God be the wick for the lamp of this body. Light this lamp with the understanding of Truth. Use this oil to light this lamp. Light it, and meet your Lord and Master.

Entering the Sanctuary of the True Guru, you shall never die again. Nanak, may I never forget You, Lord. This soul, body and breath are Yours.

The whole world is a store-house of lamp-black the body and mind are blackened with it.

The union of the mother and father brings the body into being.

What Praises of Yours can I chant and contemplate Deep within my mind and body, I behold Your Presence. You are my Friend and Companion, my Lord and Master.

Through Truth, meet your Husband Lord, O soul-bride. Enchanted by your Husband, enshrine love for Him. Your mind and body shall blossom forth in Truth. The value of this cannot be described.

The sun and the moon are lamps of incomparably beautiful light. Throughout the three worlds, the Infinite Light is pervading. In the shops of the city of the body, in the fortresses and in the huts, the True Merchandise is traded.

If my body were afflicted with pain, under the evil influence of unlucky stars and if the blood-sucking kings were to hold power over me - even if this were my condition, I would still worship and adore You, and my longing to chant Your Praises would not decrease.

How can I go and meet the Lord My mind and body are so thirsty for the Blessed Vision of His Darshan. Won't someone please come and lead me to him, O my mother.

O body, you are living in a dream What good deeds have you done When I stole something by deception, then my mind was pleased.

First, the baby loves mother's milk second, he learns of his mother and father third, his brothers, sisters and aunts fourth, the love of play awakens. Fifth, he runs after food and drink sixth, in his sexual desire, he does not respect social customs. Seventh, he gathers wealth and dwells in his house eighth, he becomes angry, and his body is consumed. Ninth, he turns grey, and his breathing becomes labored tenth, he is cremated, and turns to ashes. His companions send him off, crying out and lamenting. The swan of the soul takes flight, and asks which way to go.

Asleep in the darkness of the night, how shall she pass her life-night without her Husband Her limbs shall burn, her body shall burn, and her mind and wealth shall burn as well.

Twenty-four hours a day, destroy the eight things, and in the ninth place, conquer the body.

Maya is so sweet to the body, like sugar or molasses. We all carry loads of it. In the dark of the night, nothing can be seen.

This mind and body are so imbued, and this tongue is dyed in the deep crimson color of the poppy. Through the Love and the Fear of God, we are dyed in this color.

One whose mind and body are cooled and soothed by the True Lord - no breath of his is wasted.

The defect of the body which leads to sin is the mud puddle, and this mind is the frog, which does not appreciate the lotus flower at all.

That body is said to be pure, in which the True Name abides. One whose body is imbued with the Fear of the True One, and whose tongue savors Truthfulness, is brought to ecstasy by the True Lord's Glance of Grace. That person does not have to go through the fire of the womb again.

The Lord is my mind, body and breath of life. I do not know any other than the Lord.

Without the merchandise of the Name, the house of the body and the store of the mind are empty. Meeting the Guru, the hard and heavy doors are opened.

Body and soul, all belong to Him. He gives His Support to all.

Arising each day, you cherish your body, but you are idiotic, ignorant and without understanding.

The body is dust the wind speaks through it. Understand, O wise one, who has died. Awareness, conflict and ego have died, but the One who sees does not die.

If the mind is polluted, then the body is polluted, and the tongue is polluted as well.

He Himself is the Great Banker God is our Lord and Master. I am His petty merchant. My mind, body and soul are all Your capital assets. You, O God, are the True Banker of servant Nanak.

This opportunity shall not come again I say to you, O my body, listen to my advice You slander, and then praise others you indulge in lies and gossip. You gaze upon the wives of others, O my soul you steal and commit evil deeds.

One whose mind is attuned to the Lord, has no pollution in his body.

You may have a body free of disease and deformity, and have no worries or grief at all you may be unmindful of death, and night and day revel in pleasures you may take everything as your own, and have no fear in your mind at all but still, if you do not come to remember the Supreme Lord God, you shall fall under the power of the Messenger of Death.

Why should we speak of any other As long as Your Light is within the body, You speak through that Light. Without Your Light, who can do anything Show me any such cleverness

This human body is transitory, and transitory are the garments it wears. Attached to duality, no one attains the Mansion of the Lord's Presence.

while I dwell in this body, let me sing Your True Praises, that I may intuitively merge with lord.

Body and soul and all riches are Yours. Yours is the Power, O Lord of the World.

Without the Name, the body suffers in pain it crumbles like a wall of sand.