Verse 19

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Bow to the dog and the donkey· Verses 14–19

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In a brahmin and in an outcaste, in a thief and in one who is kind to brahmins, in the sun and in a spark, in one who is not cruel and in one who is: the man who sees them alike is held to be learned. For a man who keeps on making himself feel that I am there in men, rivalry, spite and contempt, and I-making along with them, quickly go away. Throwing off his own people who are laughing at him, and his usual way of looking, and the shame that belongs to the body, let him bow to the ground like a staff before a dog, an outcaste, a cow, a donkey. Until the sense that I am in all beings is born in him, let him serve in this way, with the workings of speech and mind and body.

For him everything is of the nature of Brahman, by that knowing which is the thought of the self; and seeing this on every side, let him come to rest, his doubt let go. Of all the ways, this is the one I hold to be right: taking me as present in all beings, with the workings of mind and speech and body.