And thus Ganaka Vaideha spoke on this point to Budila Asvatarasvi: `How is it that thou who spokest thus as knowing the Gayatri, hast become an elephant and carriest me?' He answered: `Your Majesty, I did not know its mouth. Agni, fire, is indeed its mouth; and if people pile even what seems much (wood) on the fire, it consumes it all. And thus a man who knows this, even if he commits what seems much evil, consumes it all and becomes pure, clean, and free from decay and death.'