Verses - Material body

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.10.12

"This body, after all, is produced by the unmanifested nature and again annihilated and merged in the natural elements. Therefore, it is the common property of everyone. Under the circumstances, who but a rascal claims this property as his own and while maintaining it commits such sinful activities as killing animals just to satisfy his whims? Unless one is a rascal, one cannot commit such sinful activities." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/10/12

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.14.50-51

"Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, for every created being the dearmost thing is certainly his own self. The dearness of everything else — children, wealth and so on — is due only to the dearness of the self." "For this reason, O best of kings, the embodied soul is self-centered: he is more attached to his own body and self than to his so-called possessions like children, wealth and home." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/14/50 & https://vedy.online/en/sb10/14/51

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.14.52-54

"Indeed, for persons who think the body is the self, O best of kings, those things whose importance lies only in their relationship to the body are never as dear as the body itself." "If a person comes to the stage of considering the body “mine” instead of “me,” he will certainly not consider the body as dear as his own self. After all, even as the body is growing old and useless, one’s desire to continue living remains strong." "Therefore it is his own self that is most dear to every embodied living being, and it is simply for the satisfaction of this self that the whole material creation of moving and nonmoving entities exists." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/14/52 & https://vedy.online/en/sb10/14/53 & https://vedy.online/en/sb10/14/54

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.16.56

"The serpent Kāliya said: Our very birth as a snake has made us envious, ignorant and constantly angry. O my Lord, it is so difficult for people to give up their conditioned nature, by which they identify with that which is unreal." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/16/56

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.16.57

"O supreme creator, it is You who generate this universe, composed of the variegated arrangement of the material modes, and in the process You manifest various kinds of personalities and species, varieties of sensory and physical strength, and varieties of mothers and fathers with variegated mentalities and forms." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/16/57

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.24.16

"Every individual is under the control of his own conditioned nature, and thus he must follow that nature. This entire universe, with all its demigods, demons and human beings, is based on the conditioned nature of the living entities." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/24/16

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.49.20-21

"In this world no one has any permanent relationship with anyone else, O King. We cannot stay forever even with our own body, what to speak of our wife, children and the rest." "Every creature is born alone and dies alone, and alone one experiences the just rewards of his good and evil deeds." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/49/20 & https://vedy.online/en/sb10/49/21

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.51.50

"The body that at first rides high on fierce elephants or chariots adorned with gold and is known by the name “king” is later, by Your invincible power of time, called “feces,” “worms,” or “ashes.”" https://vedy.online/en/sb10/51/50

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.54.45

"This material body, which has a beginning and an end, is composed of the physical elements, the senses and the modes of nature. The body, imposed on the self by material ignorance, causes one to experience the cycle of birth and death." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/54/45

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.54.47

"Birth and other transformations are undergone by the body but never by the self, just as change occurs for the moon’s phases but never for the moon, though the new-moon day may be called the moon’s “death.”" https://vedy.online/en/sb10/54/47

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.60.45

"A woman who fails to relish the fragrance of the honey of Your lotus feet becomes totally befooled, and thus she accepts as her husband or lover a living corpse covered with skin, whiskers, nails, head-hair and body-hair and filled with flesh, bones, blood, parasites, feces, mucus, bile and air." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/60/45

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.70.28

"O Lord, with this corpselike body, always full of fear, we bear the burden of the relative happiness of kings, which is just like a dream. Thus we have rejected the real happiness of the soul, which comes by rendering selfless service to You. Being so very wretched, we simply suffer in this life under the spell of Your illusory energy." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/70/28