Mahatma Gandhi Body Quotations

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.

Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry...

Whatever does not exist in the body can't be found in the universe, and whatever exists in the universe can be found in the body.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body