5.16.1 Then he said to Budila Asvatarasvi: "Vaiyaghrapadya! Whom do you reverence as your Lord?"

"Water indeed, Sir, O King," said he.

"Water is a sign of God and His wealth, but it is not God, whom you have taken it to be. Therefore you are wealthy and thriving.

5.16.2 You eat food; you see what is pleasing. He eats food; he sees what is pleasing. There is eminence in sacred knowledge in the family of him who knows God thus.

That, however, is only a bladder's worth of the truth," said he. "Your bladder would have burst, if you had not come unto me."