THE WHITE ARYANS
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Those who are demigods, they are always surayah. Surayah means Just like Aryans and non-Aryans. Then there’s suri and asuri, or sura or asura. Asura, asura means demons, and sura, just the opposite. Or Aryans and non-Aryans. So the Aryans Aryans, the real meaning, the Sanskrit word, “Aryans,” means progressive. We have historically made a class of men. No. Aryan civilization means who is progressive, advancing. They are intelligent. They are fair-complexioned. Therefore Aryan means progressive.
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lecture 7.6.1, Boston, May 8, 1968
Prabhupada: Monkey is the last species of life before being promoted to the human being. There are three animals: monkey and cow, and tiger. Lion… Yes.
Hamsaduta: When that promotion comes, Srila Prabhupada, they are not immediately born into a society like American or…?
Prabhupada: No, no. Uncivilized, just like aborigine.
Hamsaduta: Aborigines, negroes…
Prabhupada: Human species. Then gradually they become born in civilized…
Hamsaduta: It must be very difficult to get a birth in a civilized society.
Prabhupada: Yes. Certainly. Therefore it is said, labdhva sudurlabham. It is very rare, now, especially to take birth in India in the Vedic society. India means within this planet, the civilized Aryan family. Now Aryan families have degraded. Otherwise Aryan means progressive. So all over the world the Aryan families they have degraded. Otherwise the Vedic civilization was Aryan civilization.
Devotee: Some places they recognize that. When we went to one meeting in Bombay…
Prabhupada: The Europeans and Americans, they belong to Aryan family. They have lost their Vedic culture. Now it is being revived again.
Revatinandana: They came from those renegade kings that ran away from Parasurama?
Prabhupada: Yes, there are so many reasons.
Revatinandana: Is it also true that the Scandinavians come from… Kamsa-nisudana was telling me that the Scandinavians came from Skandha, god of war, and that these people were driven out of India by the Hindu society. They were worshipers of Skandha, and they took shelter in northern Europe?
Prabhupada: Maybe. Actually Aryan civilization was central Asia. Some of them went towards India and some of them went towards Europe. Indo-European stock that is called.
Revatinandana: Central Asia.
Prabhupada: Central Asia. Caucasian. Kasyapa Muni’s place.
Hamsaduta: How come they’re so white?
Prabhupada: The Aryans are white. But here, this side, due to climatic influence, they are a little tan. Indians are tan but they are not black. But Aryans are all white. And the non-Aryans, they are called black. Yes.
Devotee: They use the term Caucasian to designate those persons who…
Prabhupada: Not only Europeans. The Kashmir side of this Afganistan, Baluchistan and Punjab, they are all white.
Devotee: Caucasaus Mountains is near Afghanistan.
Prabhupada: Yes. All white. In Punjab, you’ll find, they are as white as Europeans. Oh, yes. Kashmir.
Himavati: Also in Vrndavana (indistinct). And they’re tall.
Prabhupada: Tall. So Aryan family, whole Aryans, they are white. And sudras are called krsna, krsna, black.
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lecture 6.1.6, Bombay, November 6, 1970
Prabhupada: In Bengal the, just like here, so many, black mixed up with white. In Bengal and Madras, so many Dravidian have been mixed up with the Aryan. Therefore in Bengal and Madras you’ll find many black.
Hari-sauri: Dravidian?
Prabhupada: Dravidian culture. Dravida. They are non-Aryans. Just like these Africans, they are not Aryans. Now they are mixing up with Europeans and Americans. In India, it was, one from the higher section, brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, they will be fair complexion. Sudras, black. So if a brahmana becomes black, then he’s not accepted as brahmana. Kala bahu (?). And if a sudra becomes fair, then he’s to be know that he’s not pure sudra.
Room Conversation, August 2, 1976, Paris
Prabhupada: Aborigines, they fight amongst their clans.
Hrdayananda: Aborigines?
Prabhupada: Yes. Just like Africa.
Hrdayananda: Prabhupada? You wrote in a letter to Bhagavan… You said that originally the Europeans had Aryan-type culture but they have become degraded.
Prabhupada: Oh, yes. They are still Aryan. Europeans are Aryan, Indo-Aryan. That is admitted in history.
Hrdayananda: You said that they became degraded by associating, by bad…
Prabhupada: Yes, by association with these aborigines.
Hrdayananda: Who were the aborigines they associated with?
Prabhupada: Everywhere there were aborigines. In India there are still aborigines, adivasi.
Morning Walk, February 6, 1976, Mayapura, India
HERE IS THE LETTER PRABHUPADA WROTE TO BHAGAVAN DASA:
The Western people, they are Aryans and ksatriyas in their origin, but due to bad association with the aborigines, they have taken all bad habits and become degenerated. Now we have to revive this Aryan civilization and rectify things. If we do it nicely, then all the Western people will be happy and they will glorify Lord Caitanya. This is Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s prediction, “When they will take this Vedic culture, they will applaude Me.” So our mission should be how to have Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu applauded all over the world. His statement is param vijayate sri-krsna-sankirtanam.
Srila Prabhupada Letter to: Bhagavan, Bombay, 14 November 1975
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