एतद् ह वै तत् जनकः वैदेहः बुडिलम् आश्वतराश्विम् उवाच यत् नु ह तत् गायत्रीविद् अब्रूथाः अथ कथम् हस्तीभूतः वहसि इति मुखम् हि अस्याः संराट् न विदां चकर इति ह उवाच तस्याः अग्निः एव मुखम् यदि ह वा अपि बहु इव अग्नौ अभ्यादधति सर्वम् एव तत् संदहति एवम् ह एव एवम्विद् यदि अपि बहु इव पापं कुरुते सर्वम् एव तत् संप्साय शुद्धः पूतः अजरः अमृतः संभवति
etad ha vai tat janakaḥ vaidehaḥ buḍilam āśvatarāśvim uvāca yat nu ha tat gāyatrīvid abrūthāḥ atha katham hastībhūtaḥ vahasi iti mukham hi asyāḥ saṃrāṭ na vidāṃ cakara iti ha uvāca tasyāḥ agniḥ eva mukham yadi ha vā api bahu iva agnau abhyādadhati sarvam eva tat saṃdahati evam ha eva evamvid yadi api bahu iva pāpaṃ kurute sarvam eva tat saṃpsāya śuddhaḥ pūtaḥ ajaraḥ amṛtaḥ saṃbhavati
About this Janaka of Videha said to Buḍila Āśvatarāśvi: "You were called a knower of the gāyatrī — how then have you become an elephant and carry loads?" He answered: "I did not know her mouth, your majesty." Her mouth is fire: even if what seems like much is laid into a fire, it burns it all up; and so one who knows this: even if he does what seems like much evil, having devoured it all he becomes clean, pure, unaging, immortal.
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The final parable of the gāyatrī, with the appearance of an old acquaintance: Buḍila Āśvatarāśvi (a seeker of Vaiśvānara, ChU 5.16) was reborn as an elephant for a flaw in his knowledge — he "did not know her mouth"! A prayer without a mouth is a body without one: he recited, but there was nowhere to receive what was recited.
The mouth of the gāyatrī is fire: that same purifying agni in which everything laid on it burns. A prayer with a mouth of fire devours even the sins of the one who prays: "even much evil — having devoured it all, he becomes clean, pure, unaging, immortal" (śuddhaḥ pūtaḥ ajaraḥ amṛtaḥ). Not an indulgence but a furnace: evil that falls into a living prayer burns like straw. Buḍila's lesson is stern and exact: an incomplete knowledge of a holy thing is not neutral — while a complete one makes prayer into the all-consuming mouth of God.