Text 60] Hiranyakasipu, King of the Demons 125
thinking in terms of his bodily relationships with his kinsmen, Krsna
immediately chastised him, saying, kutas tua kasmalam idam visame
samupasthitam anarya-justam: “This bodily conception of life is befit-
ting the andaryas, 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. To
keep oneself in the deepest darkness concerning spiritual knowledge and
at the same time claim to be an Aryan is a non-Aryan position. In this
connection, Srila Madhvacarya quotes as follows from the Brahma-
vaivarta Purdna:
ka atma kah para iti dehady-apeksaya
na hi dehadir atma syan
na ca Satrur udiritah
ato daihika-vrddhau va
ksaye va kim prayojanam
yas tu deha-gato jivah
sa hi naésar na gacchati
tatah Satru-vivrddhau ca
sva-nase Socanam kutah
dehddi-vyatiriktau tu
Jivesau pratijdnata
ata atma-vivurddhis tu
vasudeve ratih sthira
Satru-nasas tathajnana-
naso nanyah kathaficana
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
