यस्यात्मबुद्धि: कुणपे त्रिधातुके स्वधी: कलत्रादिषु भौम इज्यधी: । यत्तीर्थबुद्धि: सलिले न कर्हिचि- ज्जनेष्वभिज्ञेषु स एव गोखर: ॥ १३ ॥
yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma ijya-dhīḥ yat-tīrtha-buddhiḥ salile na karhicij janeṣv abhijñeṣu sa eva go-kharaḥ
- yasya
- whose
- ātma
- as his self
- buddhiḥ
- idea
- kuṇape
- in a corpselike body
- tri-dhātuke
- made of three basic elements
- sva
- as his own
- dhīḥ
- idea
- kalatra-ādiṣu
- in wife and so on
- bhaume
- in earth
- ijya
- as worshipable
- dhīḥ
- idea
- yat
- whose
- tīrtha
- as a place of pilgrimage
- buddhiḥ
- idea
- salile
- in water
- na karhicit
- never
- janeṣu
- in men
- abhijñeṣu
- wise
- saḥ
- he
- eva
- indeed
- gaḥ
- a cow
- kharaḥ
- or an ass
One who identifies his self as the inert body composed of mucus, bile and air, who assumes his wife and family are permanently his own, who thinks an earthen image or the land of his birth is worshipable, or who sees a place of pilgrimage as merely the water there, but who never identifies himself with, feels kinship with, worships or even visits those who are wise in spiritual truth — such a person is no better than a cow or an ass.