True civilization systematically elevates humanity toward spiritual perfection; modern society degrades humans to animal consciousness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: Hmm? You can say? Harikeśa: There are two sons? And a friend asked what was his... One was very dark...
[laughter] Not Prabhupāda. Prabhupāda: Indian system is, the bridegroom... So when the man went to see the bridegroom, his father called his son, bridegroom's father, "My dear Gorācānd, please come here." So he came. He was just like a black Negro. And Gorācānd means fair complexion.
So one of the party came to see. So, "This is in your country Gorācānda, so where is Kālācāndcan you bring him?" So that is the respectable gentleman, and what is debauch? Harikeśa: Kālācānd means black, very black. Gora means fair. Prabhupāda: When Gorācānd was called, a black Negro came. So if Kālācānd is called, who will come then?
[laughter] Hari-śauri: There seems to be such an amazing repertoire of stories and analogies in the Bengali language, isn't there? So many. Prabhupāda: 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 Āryan. Therefore in Bengal and Madras you'll find many black. Hari-śauri: Dravidians? Prabhupāda: Dravidian culture.
Dravida. They are non-Āryans. Just like these Africans, they are not Āryans. Now they are mixing up with European and American.
In India, it was, one from the higher section, brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, they will be fair complexion. Śūdras, black. So if a brāhmaṇa becomes black, then he's not accepted as brāhmaṇa. Kāla-bāmuna. And if a śūdra becomes fair, then he's to be known, understood, that he's not pure śūdra.
Although we do not take very..., but this brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya by birth, but still, we have seen, those who are coming purely from high caste family, their behavior and śūdras' behavior, different. The family culture. Although spiritually culture lost, still, the family culture keeps them separate. Hari-śauri: Still we still met a lot of people in India who are actually following the regulative principles just as a matter of social training. But they're becoming very few now. Prabhupāda: In, actually, in Bengal, Bengal has lost its original culture.