In plain words
You must have the firm conviction, ‘I am very great’. That is ‘Ahaṃbrahmāsmi’. If it is only that much, it turns into selfishness.
We must see God through the body
After this, the Vedānta said, ‘Mamātma sarvabhūtāntarātma’. You must feel, ‘My Ātma itself is in all’. Only then will the other person respect you. This is what Kṛṣṇa taught first of all in the Bhagavad Gītā. ‘Mamātma sarvabhūtāntarātma’. ‘My Ātma itself is you; your Ātma itself is I’. There are no two Ātmas at all. In a hall you set out a hundred clay pots. You set out a hundred porcelain pots. You set out a hundred copper pots. You set out many more pots of other metals. You filled all the pots with water and set them there. But, as it is said, ‘The one sun appears to all beings as one for each’, in every one of the pots the reflection of the one sun is seen. The price of a gold pot may be different. The price of a clay pot may be different. The price of a copper pot may be different. But the reflection seen in all of them has one value. In the vessel called the body, in the water called the mind, it is reflected: the principle of the Ātma. When the mind moves, the sun seems to move; but the sun does not move. It never moves. What moves is our own mind! Because the mind moves, God seems to move. Many ignorant people say, ‘My Ātma is restless’. The Ātma has no restlessness at all. ‘Nirguṇaṃ, nirañjanaṃ, sanātanaṃ, niketanaṃ, nitya, śuddha, buddha, mukta, nirmala svarūpiṇaṃ’. How great an Ajñāna it is to call such a principle of the Ātma restless! No, no. It is not something that moves, not something that changes, not something that melts, not something hard. All of it is sweet, delightful, attractive, full of Ānanda, joyous; all of it is full of nectar. Unable to recognise such a principle of the Ātma, you scramble after these things that are merely worldly, physical and of Prakṛti.