Text 60] Hiraṇyakaśipu, King of the Demons
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thinking in terms of his bodily relationships with his kinsmen, Kṛṣṇa immediately chastised him, saying,  kutas tvā kaśmalam idaṁ viṣame samupasthitam anārya-juṣṭam : “This bodily conception of life is befitting the  anāryas , the non-Āryans, who are not advanced in knowledge.” An Āryan civilization is a civilization advanced in spiritual knowledge. Not merely by stamping oneself an Āryan does one become an Āryan. To keep oneself in the deepest darkness concerning spiritual knowledge and at the same time claim to be an Āryan is a non-Āryan position. In this connection, Śrīla Madhvācārya quotes as follows from the  Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa :
ka ātmā kaḥ para iti dehādy-apekṣayā
na hi dehādir ātmā syān na ca śatrur udīritaḥ ato daihika-vṛddhau vā kṣaye vā kiṁ prayojanam
yas tu deha-gato jīvaḥ sa hi nāśaṁ na gacchati tataḥ śatru-vivṛddhau ca sva-nāśe śocanaṁ kutaḥ
dehādi-vyatiriktau tu jīveśau pratijānatā ata ātma-vivṛddhis tu vāsudeve ratiḥ sthirā śatru-nāśas tathājñāna- nāśo nānyaḥ kathañcana
The purport is that as long as we are in this human form of body, our duty 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 of friends, enemies or responsibilities in terms of the bodily conception of life. One should not be very anxious about the body’s changing from childhood to boyhood, from boyhood to old age and then to apparent