Verse 34

²⁸Living things are better than lifeless ones, good woman, and those that carry breath better than they; better than those are the ones with thought, and then those in whom the senses work. ²⁹Among these, they that know taste are better than they that know touch; better than those, they that know smell; and best of these, they that know sound. ³⁰Better again are they that make out differences of form, and then those with teeth in both jaws. Among these the many-footed are the best, and then the four-footed, and then the two-footed. ³¹Then come the four classes, and among them the brahmin is highest; and among brahmins, the one who knows the Veda; and higher than he, the one who knows what it means.

³²Better than one who knows the meaning is one who cuts through doubt; better than he, the one who does his own work; and better still, the one who has let attachment go and does not milk his duty for himself. ³³Better than him is one who has laid his whole doing and its aims and himself in me without a break. I see no being higher than a man who has given himself to me, laid down his works in me, does nothing, and sees all alike. ³⁴Let him bow in his mind to these beings and hold them in high honour, saying: the Lord, the Bhagavan, has entered them by a portion of himself that is the living one.