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The Real Aryans

The Real Aryans

Srila Prabhupada explains the meaning and value of “Aryan civilization.”


By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lecture given in Vrindavan, India on December 9, 1975.
mugdhasya balye kaishore

kridato yati vimshatih

jaraya grasta-dehasya

yaty akalpasya vimshatih

“In the tender age of childhood, when everyone is bewildered, one passes
ten years. Similarly, in boyhood, engaged in sporting and playing, one
passes another ten years. In this way, twenty years are wasted. Similarly,
in old age, when one is an invalid, unable to perform even material
activities, one passes another twenty years wastefully.”– Srimad-
Bhagavatam 7.6.7

Out of one hundred years, fifty years are wasted by sleeping. And then
with the balance of fifty years: twenty years in childhood and youthhood,
sporting, playing; another twenty years in old age. In this way our time is
wasted because we do not know how valuable this human form of life is.
There is no such education. People think that human life is as cheap as a
dog’s life, but factually that is not so.

The human form of life is rare, especially advanced life, the Aryan
civilization. Aryan means advanced, advanced in spiritual knowledge. The
materialists see aryan only from the bodily conception, but that is not the
fact. Anyone who is advanced in spiritual life is called an Aryan.

Arjuna was chastised by Krishna: “You are talking like a non-


Aryan.” Anarya-jushtam. What is the difference between non-Aryan and
Aryan? The Aryan civilization means varnashrama-dharma: four varnas, or
social divisions, and four ashramas, spiritual divisions. And non-Aryan
means there is no division. Everyone is one, or equal.

In the beginning, in the neophyte stage, it is not that “Because I have


come to Vrindavan, immediately I have become advanced.” No. Vidhi-
bhakti must be followed according to the regulative principles given by
the injunctions of the shastra and the order of the spiritual master. Srila
Rupa Goswami writes:

shruti-smriti-puranadi- pancharatra-vidhim vina


aikantiki harer bhaktir utpatayaiva kalpate

“Devotional service of the Lord that ignores the authorized Vedic


literatures like the Upanishads, Puranas and Narada Pancaratra is simply
an unnecessary disturbance in society.” (Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu 1.2.101)

sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena nirmalam

hrishikena hrishikesha- sevanam bhaktir uchyate

“Bhakti, or devotional service, means engaging all our senses in the


service of the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of all
the senses. When the spirit soul renders service unto the Supreme, there
are two side effects. One is freed from all material designations, and one’s
senses are purified simply by being employed in the service of the Lord.”
(Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu 1.1.12)

Our practice is called pancharatrika. In this age one must


accept pancharatriki-vidhi, not Vaidic vidhi. Vaidic is very, very strict.
Unless one is born by a brahmana father, he is not given the advantage of
becoming a brahmana. That is Vaidic vidhi. But pancharatriki-vidhi means
that although one is not born of a brahmana family, if he has got a little
tendency to become a brahmana he can become a brahmana.
“Brahmana” means brahma janati iti brahmanah: One who knows
Brahman is a brahmana.

The pancharatriki-vidhi offers facility for everyone. Anyone who takes


shelter of a pure devotee of the Lord becomes purified by following the
injunctions of the spiritual master, who knows how to deal with them, how
to elevate them to the brahminical position.

Don’t Spoil Your Life

There are many things to be done for cultivating spiritual life in the human
form of life. So Prahlada Maharaja is giving an account: “Fifty years in
sleeping, and twenty years in playing, and twenty years in old age, and
ten years simply being absorbed in thinking ‘What to do?’ – then life is
spoiled.” Don’t do this.

Dying at Every Moment

This life we are thinking, “I am eighty years old or ninety years old.” But it
is not eighty years or ninety years of life; it is mrityu, dying. You are dying
every moment. It is the life of mrityu. Therefore one has to save one’s
dependents. Na mochayed yah samupeta-mrityum.
Suppose a child is five years old, and suppose he’ll live a hundred years.
That means he has already died five years. Therefore life is mrityu. I have
grown eighty years old.

Dying at Every Moment

This life we are thinking, “I am eighty years old or ninety years old.” But it
is not eighty years or ninety years of life; it is mrityu, dying. You are dying
every moment. It is the life of mrityu.

Suppose I live a hundred years. Still, I have already died eighty years.
Therefore life “I am growing. I am living.” This is all mugdha,
bewilderment. Where are you growing? Where are you living? You are
dying every moment.

Dying, death is going on. This world is called mrityu-loka, the world of
death. As long as you are in the material world, you are simply dying,
that’s all. At the end, when the balance of life becomes finished, we take
at that time that it is mrityu. But no

We should not waste our time. No. We should immediately begin our
spiritual life, aham brahmasmi. That is called brahma-bhutah, self-
realization. We must come to this point, aham brahmasmi: “I am
Brahman; I am not this body.” That is very fortunate, good fortune. But
people throughout the world are under this bodily concept of life, and they
cannot find out where the soul is, where the “I” is.

So if by cultivation of knowledge, spiritual knowledge, one comes to


understand, “I am within this body,” that is called brahma-bhutah. In this
way the beginning of devotional life is there. Take advantage of Krishna
consciousness and make your life perfect.

Thank you very much.

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