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śharīra

  • the body
  • dwelling in the body
  • bodily
  • body

Also appears as śharīram, śharīra-stham, śharīra-sthaḥ, śharīra-vāk-manobhiḥ

In 7 verses

Chapter 1 6 of 18 chapters Chapter 18
  1. 3.8

    नियतं कुरु कर्म त्वं कर्म ज्यायो ह्यकर्मणः

    śharīra — bodily

    Do the work that falls to you. Action is better than inaction. Even the keeping of your body would fail without it.

  2. 5.23

    शक्नोतीहैव यः सोढुं प्राक्शरीरविमोक्षणात्

    śhaknoti — is able

    One who can withstand the surge of desire and anger here, before leaving the body, is joined — and that one is happy.

  3. 13.2

    इदं शरीरं कौन्तेय क्षेत्रमित्यभिधीयते

    śharīram — body

    This body, son of Kunti, is called the field; and one who knows it is called the knower of the field.

  4. 13.32

    अनादित्वान्निर्गुणत्वात्परमात्मायमव्ययः

    śharīra-sthaḥ — dwelling in the body

    Being without beginning and without the strands, this highest self does not perish. Though seated in the body, Arjuna, it does not act and is not stained.

  5. 15.8

    शरीरं यदवाप्नोति यच्चाप्युत्क्रामतीश्वरः

    śharīram — the body

    When the lord of the body takes a body, and when he leaves it, he carries these with him — as the wind carries scents from their places.

  6. 17.6

    कर्षयन्तः शरीरस्थं भूतग्राममचेतसः

    śharīra-stham — within the body

    tormenting the elements of the body, senseless — know their resolve to be of the other nature. They torment me, who dwell within them.

  7. 18.15

    शरीरवाङ्मनोभिर्यत्कर्म प्रारभते नरः

    śharīra-vāk-manobhiḥ — with body, speech, or mind

    Whatever action a person undertakes with body, speech or mind, whether right or wrong, these five are its causes.