SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

Text 60] HiraJ.lyaka8ipu, King of the Demons 125thinking in terms of his bodily relationships with his kinsmen, K:rJ;taimmediately chastised him, saying, kutas tva ka.Smalam idam vamesamupasthitam andrya-j[am: "This bodily conception of life is befittingthe andryas, the non-Aryans, who are not advanced in knowledge."An Aryan civilization is a civilization advanced in spiritual knowledge.Not merely by stamping oneself an Aryan does one become an Aryan. Tokeep oneself in the deepest darknss concerning seiritual knowledge andat the same time claim to he an Aryan is a non-Aryan position. In thisconnection, Srila Madhvacarya quotes as follows from the BrahmavaivartaPurar:w:ka atma ka para iti dehady-apeyana hi dehadir atma syanna ca satrur udiritaato daihika-vrddhau vak$aye va kim prayojanamyas tu deha-gato jivasa hi nasam na gacchatitata satru-vivrddhau casva-nase socanam kutadehadi-vyatiriktau tujivesau pratijanataata atma-vivrddhis tuvasudeve rati sthira5atru-nasas tathajfiiinanasondnya kathaiicanaThe purport is that as long as we are in this human form of body, ourduty is to understand the soul within the body. The body is not the self;we are different from the body, and therefore there is no question offriends, enemies or responsibilities in terms of the bodily conception oflife. One should not he very anxious about the body's changing fromchildhood to boyhood, from boyhood to old age and then to apparent