The Creator desired, "May I create offspring." He did penance, and created serpents. He desired, "May I create offspring." He did penance a second time, and created birds. He desired, "May I create offspring." He did penance a third time, and He saw this speech of the consecrated, and spoke it. Then indeed did He create offspring. In that after undergoing penance he speaks the speech of the consecrated, the sacrificer thus creates offspring. If one who is consecrated sees anything impure, the consecration departs from him; his dark colour, his beauty goes away. "Mind unbound; eye weak; sun best of lights; O consecration, forsake me not," he says, and consecration departs not from him, his dark colour and his beauty go not away. If rain falls on one who is consecrated, the heavenly waters if unappeased destroy his force, might, consecration, and penance. "Do ye flowing waters place might in me, place force, place might; do not destroy my consecration, nor my penance," he says; thus he places all that in himself; they do not destroy his force, might, consecration, or penance. The consecrated man is under the care of the Radiant One, and he is concealed as it were from him, when he goes out, and the evil ones are able to hurt him. "From good to better do thou advance; may the Lord of Prayer be thy forerunner," he says. The Lord of Prayer is the holy power; thus he grasps hold of him, and brings him safely through. "Here we have come to the place on earth for sacrifice to God," he says, for he comes to the place on earth for sacrifice, who sacrifices. "Wherein aforetime all the righteous rejoiced," he says, for all delight in it, in that the scholars so do. "Accomplishing the rite with Rik, Saman, and Yajus," he says, for he who sacrifices accomplishes the rite with Rik, Saman, and Yajus. "Let us rejoice in fullness of wealth, in sustenance," he says; thus he invokes this blessing.