visṛjya smayamānān svān
dṛśaḿ vrīḍāḿ ca daihikīm
praṇamed daṇḍa-vad bhūmāv
ā-śva-cāṇḍāla-go-kharam
visrijya -- giving up; smayamanan -- who are laughing; svan -- one's own friends; drisam -- the outlook; vridam -- the embarrassment; ca -- and; daihikim -- of the bodily conception; pranamet -- one should offer obeisances; danda-vat -- falling down like a rod; bhumau -- upon the ground; a -- even; sva -- to the dogs; candala -- outcastes; go -- cows; kharam -- and asses.
Disregarding the ridicule of one's companions, one should give up the bodily conception and its accompanying embarrassment. One should offer obeisances before all -- even the dogs, outcastes, cows and asses -- falling flat upon the ground like a rod.
One should practice seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead within all creatures. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu advised all devotees to consider themselves lower than a blade of grass and to be more tolerant than a tree. In such a humble position, one will not be disturbed in the prosecution of pure devotional service to the Lord. A devotee does not foolishly think that a cow or an ass is God, but rather the devotee sees the Supreme Lord within all creatures, and on this higher, spiritual plane he does not discriminate.
