Skandapurana 7.18.89_124

7.18.89_124

ehi bhuṃkṣvātithirme tvaṃ49 bhava bhadreti sādaram .
tamuvāca tato50 dīnaṃ51 śvapākastapasāṃ nidhim ..55. .
śvapākohaṃ dvijaśreṣṭha mahyamannamihaiva hi .
kutsitāya prayacchasva yathaiva mṛgapakṣiṇām .. 56 . .
nāhaṃ saṃskṛtamāhartuṃ yogyonnamiti cābravīt .
tamevaṃ vādinaṃ dhyānājjñātvā52 vahnimupasthitam . .57. .
provāca dvijaśārdūla idaṃ vacanakovidaḥ .
nāhaṃ jātiṃ garhayāmi pūjayāmi .na cānagha . .58. .
ātmā sarvagato hyeṣa sarvaprāṇiṣu saṃsthitaḥ .
ātmānaṃ tamahaṃ bhaktyā pūjayāmi paraṃ śivam . .59. .
sarvatra saṃsthitaṃ matvā puruṣaṃ parameśvaram .
tiryakṣu nahi me kutsā tvadvidheṣu viśeṣataḥ . . 8.173.60 . .
sarvameva sa eveti tapaḥśaucaparāyaṇaḥ .
pūjayāmyahamavyagrastatra nissaṃśayo bhava . .61 . .
kṛmikīṭākhusarpeṣu53 śvapāgdevadvijātiṣu .
yadā sarvagato hyātmā tadā kutsā kathañca naḥ54 . . 62 ..

“Come, eat; become my guest, good sir,” he said with respect. / Then the wretched outcaste dog-cooker said to that treasury of austerities:
“I am an outcaste dog-cooker, O best of the twice-born; give food right here / to me, a despised person, just as [one would] to beasts and birds.
I am not worthy to receive consecrated food,” he said. / Knowing through meditation that it was Fire present there who spoke thus,
that tiger among the twice-born, skilled in speech, spoke this: / “I neither revile nor worship caste, O sinless one.
For this Self is all-pervading, stationed in all living beings; / with devotion I worship that Self, the supreme Śiva.
Believing the Supreme Lord, the Puruṣa, to be stationed everywhere, / I hold no contempt for animals, especially not for those like you.
Intent on austerity and purity, believing ‘all is indeed He,’ / I worship without agitation; be free of doubt regarding this.
When the Self is all-pervading in worms, insects, rats, snakes, / outcaste dog-cookers, gods, and twice-born, then how could we have contempt?