What is the very first step to treating everyone as embodiments of the Divine?  Bhagawan clearly explains the method for every aspirant to adapt.

Immortality is true nirvana (liberation)! Samyak Drishti (sacred vision) is the first step. Consider all that you see as divine. Let your vision be suffused with love. A vision filled with love is the hallmark of a true human being. All are one, be alike to everyone. You can understand unity in diversity only when you develop a sacred vision. Samyak drishti makes you realise the presence of Divinity in all. The Vedas declare, Ekam Sat Viprah Bahuda Vadanti (Truth is one, but scholars speak of it in many ways). See the world with the vision of truth. All are one; all are essentially divine. Give up multiplicity to attain unity. Vedanta declares that the Atmic principle is the underlying unity in diversity. Bulbs are many but the same current flows in all of them. Likewise, the Atmic principle exists in all. Man’s inability to understand this principle of unity is the cause of his ignorance. True humanness lies in understanding unity in multiplicity.