Verses - Material body

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.12.25

"A sober, self-realized person who has full knowledge should merge the various parts of the body in their original sources. The holes in the body are caused by the sky, the process of breathing is caused by the air, the heat of the body is caused by fire, and semen, blood and mucus are caused by water. The hard substances, like skin, muscle and bone, are caused by earth. In this way all the constituents of the body are caused by various elements, and they should be merged again into those elements." https://vedy.online/en/sb7/12/25

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.13.6

"Since the material body is sure to be vanquished and the duration of one’s life is not fixed, neither death nor life is to be praised. Rather, one should observe the eternal time factor, in which the living entity manifests himself and disappears." https://vedy.online/en/sb7/13/6

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.13.24-25

"Because of insatiable material desires, I was being carried away by the waves of material nature’s laws, and thus I was engaging in different activities, struggling for existence in various forms of life." "In the course of the evolutionary process, which is caused by fruitive activities due to undesirable material sense gratification, I have received this human form of life, which can lead to the heavenly planets, to liberation, to the lower species, or to rebirth among human beings." https://vedy.online/en/sb7/13/24 & https://vedy.online/en/sb7/13/25

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.13.28

"In this way the conditioned soul living within the body forgets his self-interest because he identifies himself with the body. Because the body is material, his natural tendency is to be attracted by the varieties of the material world. Thus the living entity suffers the miseries of material existence." https://vedy.online/en/sb7/13/28

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.14.13

"Through proper deliberation, one should give up attraction to his wife’s body because that body will ultimately be transformed into small insects, stool or ashes. What is the value of this insignificant body? How much greater is the Supreme Being, who is all-pervading like the sky?" https://vedy.online/en/sb7/14/13

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.14.37

"The Supreme Personality of Godhead has created many residential places like the bodies of human beings, animals, birds, saints and demigods. In all of these innumerable bodily forms, the Lord resides with the living being as Paramātmā. Thus He is known as the puruṣāvatāra." https://vedy.online/en/sb7/14/37

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.14.38

"O King Yudhiṣṭhira, the Supersoul in every body gives intelligence to the individual soul according to his capacity for understanding. Therefore the Supersoul is the chief within the body. The Supersoul is manifested to the individual soul according to the individual’s comparative development of knowledge, austerity, penance and so on." https://vedy.online/en/sb7/14/38

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.15.8

"Persons who want to advance in superior religion are advised to give up all envy of other living entities, whether in relationship to the body, words or mind. There is no religion superior to this." https://vedy.online/en/sb7/15/8

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.15.40

"The human form of body is meant for understanding the self and the Supreme Self, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, both of whom are transcendentally situated. If both of them can be understood when one is purified by advanced knowledge, for what reason and for whom does a foolish, greedy person maintain the body for sense gratification?" https://vedy.online/en/sb7/15/40

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.15.41

"Transcendentalists who are advanced in knowledge compare the body, which is made by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to a chariot. The senses are like the horses; the mind, the master of the senses, is like the reins; the objects of the senses are the destinations; intelligence is the chariot driver; and consciousness, which spreads throughout the body, is the cause of bondage in this material world." https://vedy.online/en/sb7/15/41

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.16.19

"Kaśyapa Muni continued: What is this material body, made of five elements? It is different from the spirit soul. Indeed, the spirit soul is completely different from the material elements from which the body is made. But because of bodily attachment, one is regarded as a husband or son. These illusory relationships are caused by misunderstanding." https://vedy.online/en/sb8/16/19

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.22.25

"While rotating in the cycle of birth and death again and again in different species because of his own fruitive activities, the dependent living entity, by good fortune, may happen to become a human being. This human birth is very rarely obtained." https://vedy.online/en/sb8/22/25