Text 43] King Citraketu Meets the Lord 137

which never deviates from the highest goal of life. Those who
follow their occupational duties under Your supervision, being
equal to all living entities, moving and nonmoving, and not con-
sidering high and low, are called Aryans. Such Aryans worship
You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

PURPORT

Bhagavata-dharma and krsna-katha are identical. Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu wanted everyone to become a guru and preach the instruc-
tions of Krsna everywhere from Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam,
the Purdnas, Veddnta-sitra and similar Vedic literatures. Aryans, who
are advanced in civilization, follow bhdgavata-dharma. Prahlada
Maharaja, although merely a child of five years, recommended:

kaum4ra dcaret prdajiio
dharman bhagavatan iha
durlabham manusam janma
tad apy adhruvam arthadam
(Bhag. 7.6.1)

Prahlada Maharaja preached bhagavata-dharma among his classmates as
soon as an opportunity was afforded by the absence of his teachers from
the classroom. He said that from the very beginning of life, from the age
of five, children should be instructed about bhdgavata-dharma because
the human form of life, which is very rarely obtained, is meant for
understanding this subject.

Bhagavata-dharma means living according to the instructions of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. In Bhagavad-gita we find that the
Supreme Lord has arranged human society in four social divisions,
namely brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and Sidra. Again, the Puranas and
other Vedic literatures set forth four GSramas, which are the divisions of
spiritual life. Therefore bhdgavata-dharma means the varndsrama-
dharma of the four social and four spiritual divisions.

The members of human society who strictly follow the principles of
bhagavata-dharma and live according to the instructions of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead are called Aryans or arya. A civilization of
Aryans who strictly follow the instructions of the Lord and never deviate
from those instructions is perfect. Such civilized men do not discriminate
