Ahunavaiti Gatha

28.

1.With outspread hands in petition for that help, O God, I will pray for the works of the holy spirit, O you the Right, whereby I may please the will of Good Thought and the Ox-Soul.

2.I who would serve you, O God and Good Thought, who gives through Truth and Righteousness the blessings of both worlds, the bodily and that of the Spirit, which set the faithful in felicity.

3.I who would praise you as never before, Right and Good Thought and God, and those for whom Piety makes an imperishable Dominion to grow; you come to me and help me at my call.

4.I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of God for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right.

5.O Truth and Righteousness, shall I see you and Good Thought, as one who knows? (Shall I see) the throne of the mightiest God and the following of God? Through this word (of promise) on our tongue will we turn the robber horde unto the Greatest.

6.Come you with Good Thought, give through Truth and Righteousness, O God, as the gift to Zarathushtra, according to your sure words, long enduring mighty help, and to us, O God, whereby we may overcome the enmity of our foes.

7.Grant, O you Truth and Righteousness, the reward, the blessing of Good Thought; O Piety, give our desire to Vishtaspa and to me; O you God and King, grant that your Prophet may command a hearing.

8.The best I ask of You, O Best, God (Lord) of one will with the Best Truth and Righteousness, desiring (it) for the hero Frashaostra and for those (others) to whom you will give (it), (the best gift) of Good Mind through all time.

9.With these bounties, O God, may we never provoke your wrath, O God and Right and Best Thought, we who have been eager in bringing you songs of praise. You are they who are the mightiest to advance desire and the Dominion of Blessings.

10.The wise whom you know as worthy, for their right (doing) and their good thought, for them do you fulfill their longing for attainment. For I know words of prayer are effective with you, which tend to a good object.

11.I would thereby preserve Right and Good Thought for evermore, that I may instruct, teach me, O God, from your spirit by your mouth how it will be with the First Life.

29.

1.Unto you wailed the Ox-soul, "For whom did you fashion me? Who created me? Violence and rapine (and) savagery has oppressed me, and outrage and might. I have no other herdsman than you; prepare for me then the blessings of pasture."

2.Then the Ox-Creator asked of the Right: " Do you have a judge for the Ox, that you may be able to appoint him zealous tendance as well as fodder? Whom do you will to be his lord, who may drive off violence together with the followers of the Lie?"

3.To him the Right replied: "There is for the Ox no helper who can keep him away. Those yonder have no knowledge how right-doers act towards the lowly".
(The Ox-Creator): "Strongest of beings is he to whose help I come at call".

4.(Truth and Righteousness) "God knows best the purposes that have been wrought already by demons and by mortals, and that shall be wrought hereafter. He, God, is the decider. So shall it be as he shall will."

5.(The Ox-Creator) "To God with outspread hands we two would pray, my soul and that of the pregnant cow, so that we two urge God with entreaties. Destruction is not for the right-living, nor for the cattle-tender at the hands of Liars."

6.Then spake God himself, who knows the law with wisdom: "There is found no lord or judge according to the Right Order for the Creator has formed you for the cattle-tender and the farmer."

7.This ordinance about the fat has God, one in will with Right, created for cattle, and the milk for them that crave nourishment, by his command, the holy one.
(The Ox and Cow:) "Who have you, O Good Thought, among men, who may care for us two?"

8.(Good Thought:) He is known to me here who alone has heard our commands, even Zarathushtra Spitama; he wills to make known our thoughts, O God, and those of the Right. So let us bestow on him charm of speech.

9.Then the Ox-Soul lamented: "That I must be content with the ineffectual word of an impotent man for my protector, when I wish for one who commands mightily! When ever shall there be one who shall give him (the Ox) effective help?"

10.(Zarathushtra:) Do you, O God, grant them strength, and O Truth and Righteousness, and O Good Thought, that dominion, whereby he (the Savior) could produce good dwellings and peace. I also have realized you, God, as the first to accomplish this.

11."Where are Right and Good Thought and Dominion? So, you men, acknowledge me, for instruction, God, for the great society."
(The Ox and Cow:) "O God, now help is ours, we will be ready to serve those who are of you."

30.

1.Now I will proclaim to those who will hear the things that the understanding man should remember, for hymns unto God and prayers to Good Thought; also the felicity that is with the heavenly lights, which through Right shall be beheld by him who wisely thinks.

2.Hear with your ears the best things; look upon them with clear-seeing thought, for decision between the two Beliefs, each man for himself before the Great Judgment Day, thinking that it be accomplished to our pleasure.

3.Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. And between these two the wise ones chose correctly, the foolish not so.

4.And when these two Spirits came together in the beginning, they created Life and Not-Life, and that at the last Worst Existence shall be to the followers of the Lie, but the Best Existence to him who follows Right.

5.Of these two Spirits he who followed the Lie chose doing the worst things; the holiest Spirit chose Right, he who clothes him with the massy heavens as a garment. So likewise they who are glad to please God by dutiful actions.

6.Between these two the Demons also chose incorrectly, for infatuation came upon them as they took counsel together, so that they chose the Worst Thought. Then they rushed together to Violence, that they might enfeeble the world of men.

7.And to him (mankind) came Dominion, and Good Mind, and Right and Piety gave continued life to their bodies and indestructibility, so that by your retributions through (molten) metal he may gain the prize over the others.

8.So when there comes their punishment for their sins, then, O God, at Your command shall Good Thought establish the Dominion on Judgment Day, for those who deliver the Lie, O God, into the hands of Right.

9.So may we be those who make this world advance, O God and you other divine spirits, come here, granting (to us) admission into your company and Truth and Righteousness, in order that (our) thought may gather together while reason is still shaky.

10.Then truly on the (world of) Lie shall come the destruction of delight; but they who get themselves good name shall be partakers in the promised reward in the fair abode of Good Thought, of God, and of Right.

11.If, O you mortals, you mark those commandments that God has ordained — of happiness and pain, the long punishment for the follower of the Druj, and blessings for the followers of the Right -- then hereafter shall it be well.

31.

1.Mindful of your commands, we proclaim words unpleasant for them to hear who after the commands of the Lie destroy the creatures of Right, but most welcome to those who give their heart to God.

2.If by reason of these things the better path is not in sight for choosing, then I will come to you all as judge of the two parties whom God knows, that we may live according to the Right.

3.What award do you give through the (holy) Spirit and through the Fire and have taught through Truth and Righteousness, to both the parties, and what the decision is for the wise, this tell us, God, that we may know, even with the tongue of Your own mouth, that I may convert all living men.

4.If Truth and Righteousness are to be invoked and God and the other divine spirits, and Reward and Devotion, do you seek for me, O Good Thought, the mighty Dominion, by the increase of which we might vanquish the Lie.

5.Tell me therefore what you, O you Right, have appointed me as the better portion, for me to determine, to know and to keep in mind, O you Good Thought — which portion they envy me. Tell me of all these things. O God, that shall not or shall be.

6.To him shall the best befall, who, as one who knows, speaks to me Right's truthful word of Well-being and of Immortality; even the Dominion of God that Good Thought shall increase for him.

7.About which he in the beginning thus thought, "let the blessed realms be filled with Light", he it is who by his wisdom created Right. (Those realms) that the Best Thought shall possess those do you exalt, O God, through the Spirit, that, O God, is ever the same.

8.I recognize You, O God, in my thought, that You the First are (also) the Last — that You are Father of Good Thought; -- when I apprehend You with my eye, that You are the true Creator of Right, and are the Lord to judge the actions of life.

9.Yours was Devotion, Yours the Ox-Creator, (namely) the Wisdom of the Spirit, O God, because You gave (the cattle) choice whether to depend on a husbandman or one who is no husbandman.

10.So she chose for herself out of the two the cattle-tending husbandman as her lord to guard the Right, the man who advances Good Thought. He who is no-husbandman, O God, however eager he be, has no part in this good message.

11.When You, O God, in the beginning created the Individual and the Individuality, through Your Spirit, and powers of understanding - when You made life clothed with the body, when (You made) actions and teachings, whereby one may exercise one's convictions at one's free-will;

12.Then lifts up his voice the false speaker or the true speaker, he who knows or he who knows not, (each) according to his own heart and mind. Passing from one to another Devotion confers with the spirit in whom there is wavering.

13.Whatever open or whatever secret (acts) may be visited with punishment, or whether a person for a little sin demands the highest punishment, — of all this through Truth and Righteousness You are aware, observing it with Your flashing eye.

14.These things I ask You, O God, how will these come and happen — the dues, that in accord with the records are appointed for the righteous, and those, O God, for the followers of the Druj, — how shall these be when they come to the reckoning.

15.This I ask, what penalty is for him who seeks to achieve kingdom for a liar, for a man of ill deeds, O God, who injures the husbandman's cattle and men, though he does him no injury.

16.This I ask, whether the understanding man, who strives to advance the Dominion over the house, or district, or land through Truth and Righteousness, shall become like You, O God, when will he be and how will he act?

17.Which is the greater — what the follower of Truth and Righteousness or what the follower of Druj believe? Let him who knows inform the wise; no longer let him who knows nothing deceive. Be to us, O God, the Teacher of Good Thought.

18.Let none of you listen to the words and commands of the follower of the Druj; for he brings house and clan and district and land into misery and destruction. Resist them with weapon!

19.To him should we listen who has understood Truth and Righteousness, to the wise Healer of Life O God, who can or will establish the truth of the words of his tongue, when through Your red Fire, O God, the assignment (of rewards) is made to the two parties.

20.Whoever comes over to the Righteous, far from him hereafter shall be long age of misery (and) darkness, ill-food, and crying of woe. To such an existence, you followers of the Lie, shall your own Self bring you through your (own) action.

21.God by virtue of His absolute Lordship will grant a perpetuity of communion with Wholeness and Immortality, and with Truth and Righteousness, with Dominion, and with Good Thought, to him who in spirit and in action is his friend.

22.Clear it is to the man of understanding, as one who has realized it with his thought. He upholds Truth and Righteousness together with good Dominion by his word and deed. He will be, O God, the most helpful helper to You.

32.

1.(Zarathushtra) — And his blessedness, even that of God, shall the nobles strive to attain, his the community with the brotherhood, his, you Demons, in the manner as I declare it.
(The Representatives of the Classes) — As your messengers we would keep them far away who are enemies to you.

2.To them God, who is united with Good Thought, and is in goodly fellowship with glorious Right, through Dominion, made reply: We make choice of your holy good Piety — may it be ours.

3.(Zarathushtra) — But you, you Demons all, and he who highly honors you, are the seed of Bad Thought — yes, and of the Lie and of Arrogance, likewise your deeds, whereby you have long been known in the seventh region of the earth.

4.For you have brought it to pass that men who do the worst things shall be called beloved of the Demons, separating themselves from Good Thought, departing from the will of God and from Right.

5.Thereby you defrauded mankind of happy life and immortality, by the deed which he and the Bad Spirit together with Bad Thought and Bad Word taught you, you Demons and the Liars, so as to ruin (mankind).

6.The many sins by which he has succeeded in being famous whether by these it shall be thus, this You know by the Best Thought, O God, You who are mindful of each person's deserts. In Your Dominion, O God, and that of Truth and Righteousness, shall your decision thereon be observed.

7.None of these sins will the understanding commit, in eagerness to attain the blessing that shall be proclaimed, we know, through the glowing metal — sins the issue of which, O God, You know best.

8.Among these sinners, we know, Yima was included, Vivanghen's son, who desiring to satisfy men gave our people flesh of the ox to eat. From these shall I be separated by You, O God, at last.

9.The teacher of evil destroys the lore, he by his teaching destroys the design of life, he prevents the possession of Good Thought from being prized. These words of my spirit I wail unto you, O God, and to the Right.

10.He it is who destroys, who declares that the Ox and the Sun are the worst things to behold with the eyes, and has made the pious into liars, and desolates the pastures and lifts his weapon against the righteous man.

11.It is they, the liars, who destroy life, who are mightily determined to deprive matron and master of the enjoyment of their heritage, in that they would prevent the righteous, O God, from the Best Thought.

12.Since they by their lore would pervert men from the best doing, God uttered evil against them, who destroy the life of the Ox with shouts of joy, by whom Grehma and his tribe are preferred and not the Right and the Karapan and the lordship of them who seek after the Lie.

13.Since Grehma shall attain the realm in the dwelling of the Worst Thought, he and the destroyers of life, O God, they shall lament in their longing for the message of Your prophet, who will stop them from beholding the Right.

14.To his undoing Grehma, and the Kavis, have long devoted their purpose and energies, for they set themselves to help the liar, and that it may be said, "The Ox shall be slain that it may kindle the Averter of Death to help us."

15.Thereby has come to ruin the Karapan and the Kavi community, through those whom they will not have to rule over their life. These shall be born away from them both to the dwelling of Good Thought.

16. God has power over him who threatens to be my undoing, that I may fetter the men of the Lie in their violence against my friends.

33.

1.According as it is with the laws that belong to the present life, so shall the Judge act with most just deed towards the man of the Lie and the man of the Right, and him whose false things and good things balance (in equal measure).

2.Whoever works ill for the liar by word or thought or hands, or converts his dependent to the good — such men meet the will of God to his satisfaction.

3.Whose is most good to the righteous man, be he noble or member of the community or the brotherhood, God — or with diligence cares for the cattle, he shall be hereafter in the pasture of Right and Good Thought.

4.I who by worship would keep far from You, O God, disobedience and Bad Thought, heresy from the nobles, and from the community the Lie, that is most near, and from the brotherhood the slanderers, and the worst herdsmen from the pastures of the cattle; --

5.I who would invoke your Obedience as the greatest of all on Judgment Day, attaining long life, and the Dominion of Good Thought, and the straight ways into Right, wherein God dwells.

6.I, as a priest, who would learn the straight (paths) by the Right, would learn by the Best Spirit how to practice husbandry by that thought in which it is thought of; these Two of Yours, O God, I strive to see and take counsel with them.

7.Come here to me, O you Best Ones, here, O God, in Your own person and visibly, O Right and Good Thought, that I may be heard beyond the limits of the people. Let the venerable duties be manifest among us and clearly viewed.

8.Consider my matters whereon I am active, O Good Thought, my worship, O God, towards one like you, and O Right, the words of my praise. Grant, O Well-being and Immortality, your own everlasting blessing.

9.That Spirit of Yours, God, together with the comfort of the Two Comrades, who advance the Right, let the Best Thought bring through the Reform wrought by me. Sure is the support of those two, whose souls are one.

10.All the pleasures of life that you hold, those that were, that are, and that shall be O God, according to your good will apportion them. Through Good Thought you advance the body, through Dominion and Right at will.

11.The most mighty God, and Piety, and Right that blesses our substance, and Good Thought and Dominion, hearken unto me, be merciful to me, when to each man the recompense comes.

12.Rise up for me, O God, through Devotion give strength, through the holiest Spirit give might, O God, through the good Recompense, through the Right give powerful prowess, through Good Thought give the reward.

13.To support me, O You who see far onward, do you assure me the incomparable things in your Dominion, O God, as the Destiny of Good Thought. O Holy Devotion, teach the Consciences about the Right.

14.As an offering Zarathushtra brings the life of his own body, the choiceness of good thought, action, and speech, unto God, unto the Right, Obedience, and Dominion.

34.

1.The action, the word, and the worship for which You, O God, shall bestow Immortality and Right, and Dominion of Well-being - through multitudes of these, O God, we would that you should give them.

2.And all the actions of the good spirit and the holy man, whose soul follows the Right, do you set with the thought (thereof) in your outer court, O God, when you are adored with hymns of praise.

3.To You and to Right we will offer the sacrifice with due service [veneration], that in (You established) Dominion you may bring all creatures to perfection through Good Thought. For the reward of the wise man is for ever secure, O God, among you.

4.Of Your Fire, O God, that is mighty through Right, promised and powerful, we desire that it may be for the faithful man with manifested delight, but for the enemy with visible torment, according to the pointings of the hand.

5.Do you have Dominion and power, O God, Right and Good Thought, to do as I urge upon you, even to protect your poor man? We have renounced the robber-gangs, both demons and men.

6.If you are truly thus, O God, Right and Good Thought, then give me this token, even a total reversal of this life, that I may come before you again more joyfully with worship and praise.

7.Can they be true to you, O God, who by their doctrines turn the known inheritances of Good Thought into misery and woe. I know none other than you, O Right, who protect us.

8.For by these actions they put us in fear, in which peril is for many — in that the stronger (puts in fear) (me) the weaker one — through hatred of your commandment, O God. They who will not have the Right in their thought, from them shall the Good Abode be far.

9.These men of evil action who spurn the holy Piety, precious to your wise one, O God, through their having no part in Good Thought, from them Right shrinks back far, as from us shrink the wild beasts of prey.

10.The man of understanding [or good will] has instructed (people) to cling to action of this Good Thought, and to the Holy Piety, creator, comrade of Right — wise that he is, and to all hope, O God, that are in your Dominion, O God.

11.And both you (gifts) shall be for sustenance, even nectar and ambrosia. Piety linked with Right shall advance the Dominion of Good Thought, its permanence and power. By these, O God, do you bless the foes of your foes.

12.What is your ordinance? What do you will? What of praise or what of worship? Proclaim it, God, that we may hear what ordinances Destiny will apportion. Teach us by Right the paths of Good Thought that are blessed to go in -

13.Even that way of Good Thought, O God, of which you spoke to me, whereon, a way well made by Right, the Conscience of the future benefactors shall pass to the reward that was prepared for the wise, of which you are determinant, O God.

14.The precious reward, then, O God, you will give by the action of Good Thought to the bodily life of those who are in the community that tends the pregnant cow, (the promise of) your good doctrine, God, that of the wisdom that exalts communities through Right.

15.O God, make known to me the best teachings and actions, these O Good Thought and O Right the due of praise. Through your Dominion, O God, assure us that mankind shall be capable according to (Your) will.

Ushtavaiti Gatha

43.

1. To each several man, to whom God ruling at his will grant after the (petitioner's) will, I will after his will that he attain permanence and power, lay hold of Right - grant this, O Piety - the destined gift of wealth, the life of the Good Thought,

2. and it shall be for him the best of all things. After his longing for bliss may one be given bliss, through the provident most holy spirit, O God, even the blessings of Good Thought that you will give through Right all the days with joy of enduring life.

3. May he attain to that which is better than the good, who would teach us the straight paths of blessedness in this life here of the body and in that of thought - true paths that lead to the world where God dwells - a faithful man, well-knowing and holy like you, O God.

4. Then shall I recognize you as strong and holy, O God, when by the hand in which you hold the destinies that you will assign to the Liar and the Righteous, by the glow of your Fire whose power is Right, the might of Good Thought shall come to me.

5. As the holy one I recognize you, God, when I saw you in the beginning at the birth of Life, when you made actions and words to have their recompense— evil for the evil, a good destiny for the good — through your wisdom when creation shall reach its goal.

6. At that goal you will come with your holy Spirit, O God, with Dominion, at the same with Good Thought, by whose action the settlements will prosper through Right. Their judgments shall Piety proclaim, even those of your wisdom which none can deceive.

7. As the holy one I recognized you, God, when Good Thought came to me and asked me: "Who are you? to whom do you belong? By what signs will you appoint the days for questioning about your possessions and yourself?"

8. Then I said to him: "To the first (question), Zarathushtra am I, a true foe to the Liar, to the utmost of my power, but a powerful support would I be to the Righteous, that I may attain the future things of the infinite Dominion, according as I praise and sing to you, O God.

9. As the holy one I recognize you, God, when Good Thought came to me. To his question, "For which will you decide" (I made reply). "At the gift of adoration to your Fire, I will think of Right so long as I have power."

10. Then show me Right, upon whom I call.
(God:) "Associating him with Piety, I have come here. Ask us now what things are here for you to ask. For your asking is as that of a mighty one, since he who is able should make you as a mighty one possessed of your desire."

11. As the holy one I recognized you, God, when Good Thought came to me, when first by your words I was instructed. Shall it bring me sorrow among men, my devotion, in doing that which you tell me is the best.

12. And when you said to me, 'To Right shall you go for teaching', then you did not command what I did not obey: 'Prosperity, before my Obedience come, followed by treasure-laden Destiny, who shall render to men each the destiny of the two-fold award.'

13. As the holy one I recognized you, God, when Good Thought came to me to learn the state of my desire. Grant it me, that which none may compel you to allow, (the wish) for long continuance of blessed existence that they say is in your Dominion.

14. If your provident side, such as an understanding man who has the power would give to his friends, comes to me by the Dominion through Right, then I will stir myself to set myself in opposition against the foes of your Law, together with all those who are mindful of your words.

15. As the holy one I recognized you, God, when Good Thought came to me, when the best taught me to declare: "Let not men seek again and again to please the Liars, for they make all the righteous enemies."

16. And Zarathushtra himself, O God, chooses each one of your holiest Spirits, O God. May Right be embodied full of life and strength! May Piety abide in the Dominion bright as the sun! May Good Thought give destiny to men according to their works!

44.

1. This I ask You, tell me truly, God - as to prayer, how it should be to one of you. O God, might one like you teach to a friend such as I am, and through friendly Right give us support, that Good Thought may come to us.

2. This I ask You, tell me truly, God - whether at the beginning of the Best Existence the recompenses shall bring blessedness to him who meets with them. Surely he, O Right, the holy one, who watches in his spirit the transgression of all, is himself the benefactor of all that lives, O God.

3. This I ask You, tell me truly, God. Who is by generation the Father of Right, at the first? Who determined the path of sun and stars? Who is it by whom the moon waxes and wanes again? This, O God, and yet more, I would like to know.

4. This I ask You, tell me truly, God. Who upholds the earth beneath and the firmament from falling? Who the waters and the plants? Who yoked swiftness to winds and clouds? Who is, O God, creator of Good Thought?

5. This I ask You, tell me truly, God. What artist made light and darkness? What artist made sleep and waking? Who made morning, noon, and night, that call the understanding man to his duty?

6. This I ask You, tell me truly, God - whether what I proclaim is verily the truth. Will Right with its actions give aid (at the last)? will Piety? Will Good Thought announce from the Dominion? For whom have you made the pregnant cow that brings good luck?

7. This I ask You, tell me truly, God. Who created together with Dominion the precious Piety? Who made by wisdom the son obedient to his father? I strive to recognize by these things you, O God, creator of all things through the holy spirit.

8. This I ask You, tell me truly, God. I could keep in mind your design, O God, and understand correctly the maxims of life that I ask of Good Thought and Right. How will my soul partake of the good that gives increase?

9. This I ask You, tell me truly, God - whether for the Self that I would bring to perfection, that of the man of insight, the Lord of Dominion would make promises of the sure Dominion, one of your likenesses, O God, who dwells in one abode with (Right) and Good Thought.

10. This I ask You, tell me truly, God. The Religion that is best for (all) who are, that in union with Right should prosper all that is mine, will they duly observe it, the religion of my creed, with words and action of Piety, in desire for your (future) good things, O God?

11. This I ask You, tell me truly, God - whether Piety will extend to those to whom your Religion shall be proclaimed? I was ordained at the first for this by you; all others I look upon with hatred of spirit.

12. This I ask You, tell me truly, God. Who among those with whom I would speak is a righteous man, and who a liar? On which side is the enemy? (On this), or is he the enemy, the Liar who opposes your blessings? How shall it be with him? Is he not to be thought of as an enemy?

13. This I ask You, tell me truly, God - whether we shall drive the Lie away from us to those who being full of disobedience will not strive after fellowship with Right, nor trouble themselves with counsel of Good Thought.

14. This I ask You, tell me truly, God - whether I would put the Lie into the hands of Right, to cast her down by the words of your lore, to work a mighty destruction among the Liars, to bring torments upon them and enmities, O God.

15. This I ask You, tell me truly, God - if you have power over this to ward off from me through Right, when the two opposing hosts meet in battle according to those decrees that you will firmly establish. Whether is it of the two that you will give victory.

16. This I ask You, tell me truly, God. Who is victorious to protect by your doctrine (all) that are? By vision assure me how to set up the judge who heals the world. Then let him have Obedience coming with Good Thought unto every man whom you desire, O God.

17. This I ask You, tell me truly, God - whether through you I shall attain my goal, O God, even attachment unto you, and that my voice may be effectual, that Well-being and Immortality may be ready to unite according to that promise with him who joins himself with Right.

18. This I ask You, tell me truly, God - whether I shall indeed, O Right, earn the reward, even ten mares with a stallion and a camel, that was promised to me, O God, as well as through you, the future gift of Well-being and Immortality.

19. This I ask You, tell me truly, God. He who will not give the reward to he who earns it, even to the man who fulfilling his word gives him (what he undertook) - what penalty shall come to him for the same at the present? I know that which shall come to him at the last.

20. Have the Demons ever exercised good dominion? And I ask of those who see how for the Demons' sake the Karapan and the Usij give cattle to violence, and how the Kavi made them continually to mourn, instead of taking care that they make the pastures prosper through Right.

45.

1. I will speak forth: hear now and hearken now, you from near and you from far who desire (instruction). Now observe this in your mind, all of you, for he is revealed. Never shall the false Teacher destroy the Second Life, the Liar, in perversion by his tongue into evil belief.

2. I will speak of the two Spirits at the first beginning of the world, of whom the holier spoke thus to the enemy: "Neither thought, nor teachings, nor wills, nor beliefs, nor words, nor deeds, nor selfs, nor souls of us two agree".

3. I will speak of that which God, the all-knowing, revealed to me first in this (earthly) life. Those of you who do not put in practice this word as I think and utter it, to them shall be woe at the end of life.

4. I will speak of what is best for the life. Through Truth and Righteousness I have come to know, O God, who created it (the life), the father of active Good Thought: but his daughter is the good-working Devotion. The all-observant God is not to be deceived.

5. I will speak of that which (he), the Holiest declared to me as the word that is best for mortals to obey; while he said: "they who for my sake obey, shall all attain Well-being and Immortality by the actions of the Good Spirit" - (he) God.

6. I will speak of him who is the greatest of all, praising him, O Right, who is bounteous to all that live. By the holy spirit let God hearken, in whose Adoration I have been instructed by Good Thought. By his wisdom let him teach me what is best,

7. Even he whose two awards, whereof he ordains, men shall attain, whoever is living or has been or shall be. In immortality shall the soul of the righteous be joyful, in perpetuity shall be the torment of Liars. All this does God appoint by his Dominion.

8. Him you should seek to win for us by hymns of adoration (in your mind): "Now indeed have I seen it with my eye, (the Kingdom) of the good spirit and of (good) action and word, since I have learned to know God through Right". Let us offer him homage in the House of Song [Heaven].

9. Him you should seek to please for us together with Good Thought, who at his will makes us weal or woe. May God by his Dominion bring us to work, for prospering our beasts and our men, so that we may through Right have familiarity with Good Thought.

10. Him you should seek to exalt with prayers of piety, he who is called God forever, for that he has promised through his own Right and Good Thought that Well-being and Immortality shall be for us in his Dominion strength and perpetuity in his house.

11. Whoever therefore in the future despises the Demon, unto him shall the holy Conscience of the future deliverer, as lord of the house, be friend, brother or father, O God.

46.

1. To what land shall I go to flee, where to flee? Nobles and my peers, they separate from me, nor are the people pleased with me, nor the Liar rulers of the land. How am I to please you, God?

2. I know why, O God, I have been unable (to achieve) anything. Only a few herds are mine (and therefore it is so) and because I have got but few people. I cry unto you, see you to it, O God, granting me support a friend gives to friend. Teach me through the Right what the acquisition of Good Thought is.

3. When, God, shall the sunrisings come forth for the worlds winning of Right, through the powerful teachings of the wisdom of the future Deliverers? Who are they to whose help Good Thought shall come? I have faith that you will yourself fulfill this for me, O God.

4. The Liar prevents the supporter of Right from prospering the cattle in district and province, infamous that he is, repellent in his actions. Whoever, God, robs him of dominion or of life, he shall go before and prepare the ways of the good belief.

5. If an understanding man should be able to hold one who comes over from his vow and his ties of faith, himself having brought him there, and living according to the ordinance, a righteous man (converting) a Liar - then shall he, when he is sure of him, tell it to the nobles, that they may protect him from injury, O God.

6. But whoever when thus approached should refuse his aid, he shall go to the abodes of the company of the Liar. For he is himself a Liar, who is very good to a Liar, he is a righteous man to whom a righteous man is dear, since you have created men's Selves in the beginning, O God.

7. Whom, O God, can one appoint as protector for one like me, when the Liar sets himself to injure me, other than Your Fire and Your Thought, through actions of which two the Right will come to maturity, O God? In this lore do you instruct my very self.

8. Whoever is minded to injure my possessions, from his actions may no harm come to me! Back upon himself may they come with hostility, against his own person, all the hostile (acts), to keep him far from the Good Life, God, not from the ill!

9. Who is it, the faithful man he, who first taught that we honor you as mightiest to help, as the holy righteous Lord over action? What your Right made known, what the Ox-Creator made known to Right, they would gladly hear through your Good Mind.

10. Whoever, man or woman, does what you, God, knows as best in life, as destiny for what is Right (give him or her) the Dominion through Good Thought. And those whom I impel to your adoration, with all these will I cross the Bridge of the Separator.

11. By their dominion the Karapans and the Kavis accustomed mankind to evil actions, so as to destroy Life. Their own soul and their own self shall torment them when they come where the Bridge of the Separator is, to all time dwellers in the House of the Lie.

12. When among the laudable descendants and posterity of the Turanian Fryana the Right arises, through activity of Piety that blesses substance; then shall Good Thought admit them, and God give them protection at the Fulfillment.

13. Whoever among mortals has pleased Spitama Zarathushtra by his willingness, a man deserving of good fame, to him shall God give Life, to him shall Good Thought increase substance, him we account to be a familiar friend with your Right.

14. O Zarathushtra, what righteous man is your friend for the great covenant? Who wills to have good fame? It is the Kava Vishtaspa at the day of judgment. Those whom you will unite in one house with you, these will I call with words of Good Thought.

15. You Haechataspa Spitamas, I will declare unto you so that you can discern the wise and the unwise. ... Through these actions you shall acquire Right according to the primordial laws of God.

16. Frashaoshtra Hvogva, go to that place with those faithful whom we both desire to be in blessedness, where Right is united with Piety, where the Dominion is in possession of Good Thought, where God dwells to give it increase.

17. When, O Jamaspa Hvogva, when I recount your wrongs not your successes, (and) with your obedience the prayers of your loyalty, (before him) who shall separate the wise and the unwise through his prudent counselor the Right, even he, God.

18. He who holds unto me, to him I promise what is best in my possession through the Good Thought, but enmities to him who shall set himself to devise enmity to us, O God and the Right, desiring to satisfy your will. That is the decision of my understanding and thought.

19. He who accomplishes for me, even Zarathushtra, in accordance with Right that which best agrees with my will, to him as earning the reward of the Other Life shall be that of two pregnant cows, with all things on which his mind is set. These things will you bring to pass for me who best knows how, O God.

Spentamainyush Gatha

47.

1. For his holy Spirit and for Best Thought, deed, and word, in accordance with Right, God with Dominion and Piety shall give us Well-being and Immortality.

2. The best (work) of this most holy Spirit he fulfills with the tongue through words of Good Thought, with work of his hands through the action of Piety, by virtue of this knowledge: he, even God, is the Father of Right.

3. You are the holy Father of this Spirit, which has created for us the luck-bringing cattle, and for its pasture to give it peace (has created) Piety, when he had taken counsel, O God, with Good Thought.

4. From this Spirit have Liars fallen away, O God, but not the Righteous. Whether one is lord of little or of much, he is to show love to the righteous, but be ill unto the Liar.

5. And all the best things that by this Holy Spirit you have promised to the righteous, O God, shall the Liar partake of them without your will, who by his actions is on the side of Ill Thought?

6. Through this holy Spirit, God, and through the Fire you will give the division of good to the two parties, with support of Piety and Right. This verily will convert many who are ready to hear.

48.

1. When at the Recompensings the Right shall smite the Liar, so that what was long since made known shall be assigned to eternity to Demons and men, then will it exalt with your blessings, God, him who prays to you.

2. Tell me, for you are he who knows, O God: - shall the Righteous smite the Liar before the retributions come that you have conceived? That were indeed a message to bless the world.

3. For him who knows, that is the best of teachings which the beneficent God teaches through the Right, he the holy one, even yourself, O God, who knows the secret lore through the wisdom of Good Thought.

4. Whoever, O God, makes his thought (now) better, (now) worse, and likewise his Self by action and by word, and follows his own inclinations, wishes, and choices, he shall in your purpose be in a separate place at last.

5. Let good rulers rule us, not evil rulers with the actions of the Good Lore, O Piety! Perfect you for man, O you most good, the future birth, and for the cow skilled husbandry. Let her grow fat for our nourishing.

6. She (Devotion) will give us peaceful dwelling, she will give lasting life and strength, she the beloved of Good Thought. For it (the cattle) God made the plants to grow at the birth of the First Life, through Right.

7. Violence must be put down! against cruelty make a stand, you who would make sure of the reward of Good Thought through Right, to whose company the holy man belongs. His dwelling place shall be in your House, O God.

8. Is the possession of your good Dominion, God, is that of your Destiny assured to me God? Will your manifestation, O you Right, be welcome to the pious, even the weighing of actions by the Good Spirit?

9. When shall I know whether you have power, O God and Right, over everyone whose destructiveness is a menace to me? Let the revelation of Good Thought be confirmed unto me; the future deliverer should know how his own destiny shall be.

10. When, O God, will the nobles understand the message? When will you smite the filthiness of this intoxicant, through which the Karapans evilly deceive, and the wicked lords of the lands with cruel purpose?

11. When, O God, shall Piety come with Right, with Dominion the happy dwelling rich with pasture? Who are they who will make peace with the bloodthirsty Liars? To whom will the Lore of Good Thought come?

12. These shall be the deliverers of the provinces, who exert themselves, O Good Thought in their action, O Truth and Righteousness, to fulfill their duty, face to face with your command, O God. For these are the appointed smiters of Violence.

49.

1. Ever has Bendva been for me the greatest obstacle, I who desire to give satisfaction to those who are neglected, O Right, O God. With good Ada come to me, support me firmly. Prepare for him (his) ruin, O Good Thought.

2. The perverter of this Bendva has long time impeded me, the Liar who has fallen away from Right. He cares not that holy Piety should be his, nor takes the counsel with Good Thought, O God.

3. And in this belief (of ours), O God, Right is laid down, for blessing, in the heresy the Lie, for ruin. Therefore I strive for the fellowship of Good Thought, I forbid all intercourse with the Liar.

4. They who make the increase of violence and cruelty with their tongues, the foes of cattle-nurture among its friends; whose ill deeds prevail, not their good deeds: these (shall be) in the house of the Demons, (the place for) the Self of the Liar.

5. But he, O God, - happiness and satiety be his who links his own Self with Good Thought, being through Right an intimate of Piety. And with all these (may I be) in Your Dominion, God.

6. I beseech you two, O God and the Right, to say what are the plans of your will, that we may discern how we might teach the Religion of such as you, O God.

7. And this let Good Thought hear, O God, let the Right hear, also listen, O God, which men of the brotherhood, what noble is it according to the Law who brings to the community fame.

8. On Frashaoshtra do you bestow the most gladsome fellowship with the Right - this I ask you, O God - and on myself the hold on what is good in your Dominion. To all eternity we would be your messengers.

9. Let the helper hear the ordinance, he who is created to bring deliverance. The man of right words is no regarder of fellowship with the Liar, if they who are partakers of Right are to make themselves partake in the best reward at the Judgment, O Jamaspa.

10. And this, O God, will I put in your care within your House - the Good Thought and the souls of the Righteous, their worship, their Piety and zeal, that you may guard it, O you mighty Dominion, with abiding power.

11. But these who are of an evil dominion, of evil deeds, evil words, evil Self, and evil thought, Liars, the Souls go to meet them with evil food; in the House of the Lie they shall be inhabitants.

12. What help have you, O Right, for Zarathushtra that calls upon me? What have you, Good Thought? — for me who with praises seeks your favor, O God, longing for that which is best in your possession.

50.

1. (Zarathushtra:) Can my soul count on any one for help? Who is there found for my herd, who for myself a protector, indeed, at my call other than the Right and yourself. O God, and the Best Thought?

2. How, O God, should one desire the luck-bringing cattle, one who would gladly come to him with the pasture?
(God:) They who live uprightly according to the Right among the many who look upon the sun, those whom they stand in judgment, I will settle in the dwellings of the wise.

3. (Zarathushtra:) So this (reward) shall come to him through the Right, O God, (this reward) that by the Dominion and Good Thought he promised, whomsoever by the power of his Destiny prospers the neighboring possession that now the Liar holds.

4. I will worship you with praise, O God, joined with Right and Best Thought and Dominion, that they, desired of pious men, may stand as Judges on the path of the obedient unto the House of Song.

5. Assured by you, O God and Right, are the pointings of the hand - since you are well-disposed to your prophet - which shall bring us to bliss, together with visible manifest help.

6. The prophet Zarathushtra, O God, who lifts up his voice in worship, as friend of Truth and Righteousness - may the Creator of Wisdom teach me his ordinances through Good Thought, that my tongue may have a pathway.

7. For you I will harness the swiftest steeds, stout and strong, by the promptings of your praise, that you may come here, O God, Right, and Good thought.

8. Ever with verses that are recognized as those of pious zeal I will come before you with outstretched hands, O God, before you, O you Right, with worship of the faithful man, before you with all the capacity of Good Thought.

9. With those prayers I would come and praise you, O God and you Right, with actions of Good Thought. If I be master of my own destiny as I will, then I will take thought for the portion of the wise in the same.

10. Those actions that I shall achieve and those done before, and those, O Good Thought, that are precious in your sight, the rays of the sun, the shimmering uprisings of the days, all is for your praise, O you Right and God.

11. Your praiser, God, will I declare myself and be, so long, O Right, as I have strength and power. May the Creator of the world accomplish through Good Thought its fulfillment of all that most perfectly answers to his will.

Vohu Khshathra Gatha

51.

1. The good, the precious Dominion, as a most surpassing portion, shall Right achieve for him who with zeal accomplishes what is best through his actions, O God. This will I now work out for us.

2. Before all, O God, assure me the Dominion of your possession, O Right, and what is yours, O Piety. Your (Dominion) of blessing give through Good Thought to him who prays.

3. Let your ears attend to those who in their deeds and utterances hold to your words, God and Right, to those of Good Thought, for whom you, God, are the first teacher.

4. Where is the recompense for wrong to be found, where pardon for the same? Where shall they attain the Right? Where is the holy Piety, where Best Thought? Your Dominions, where are they, O God?

5. All this (I) ask, whether the husbandman shall find cattle in accordance with Right, he who is perfect in action, a man of understanding, when he prays to him, who has promised unto the Wise the true Judge, in that he is Lord of the two destinies...

6. Even he, God, who through his Dominion appoints what is better than good to him who is attached to his will, but what is worse than evil to him who disobeys, at the last end of life.

7. Give me, O you who created the Ox and Waters and Plants, Well-being and Immortality, by the Highest Spirit, O God, strength and continuance through Good Thought at the (Judge's) sentence.

8. Of these two things will I speak, O God, - for one may speak to the wise - the ill that is threatened to the Liar, and the happiness of him who clings to the Right. For he, the Prophet, is glad of every one who says this to the wise.

9. What recompense will you give to the two parties by your red Fire, by the molten metal, give us a sign of it in our souls - even the bringing of ruin to the Liar, of blessing to the Righteous.

10. Whoever, other than this one, seeks to kill me, God, he is a son of the Lie's creation, ill-willed thus towards all that live. I call the Right to come to me with good destiny.

11. What man is friend to Spitama Zarathushtra, O God? Who will let himself be counseled by Right? With whom is holy Piety? Or who as an upright man is intent on the brotherhood of Good Thought?

12. The Kavi's wantonness did not please Zarathushtra Spitama at the Winter Gate, in that he prevented him from taking refuge with him, and when there came to him also (Zarathushtra's) two steeds shivering with cold.

13. Thus the Self of the Liar destroys for himself the assurance of the right Way; whose soul shall tremble at the Revelation on the Bridge of the Separator, having turned aside with deeds and tongue from the Path of Right.

14. The Karapans will not obey the statutes and ordinances concerning husbandry. For the pain they inflict upon the cattle, fulfill upon them through their actions and judgments that judgment which at the last shall bring them to the House of the Lie.

15. When Zarathushtra has promised to the men of his brotherhood, (which) in the House of Song God has first attained, for all this I have looked through your blessings, Good Thought, and those of Right.

16. Kavi Vishtaspa has the creed that the holy God with Right has devised, together with the dominion of the Brotherhood, and the path of Good Thought. So be it accomplished after our desire.

17. The fair form of one who is dear has Frashaoshtra Hvogva promised unto me: may sovereign God grant that she attain possession of the Right for her good Self.

18. This creed Jamaspa Hvogva chooses through Right, lordly in substance. This Dominion they (choose) who have part in Good Thought. This grant me, God, that they may find in you, God, their protection.

19. The man himself, O Maidyoi-Maungha Spitama, has set this before him after conceiving it in his own self. He who would see life indeed, to him will he make known what in actions by God's ordinance is better during (this) existence.

20. Your blessings shall you give us, all who are one in will, with whom Right, Good Thought, Piety, and God (are one) according to promise, giving your aid when worshipped with reverence.

21. By Piety the man becomes Holy. Such person advances Right through his thinking, his words, his action, his Self. By Good Thought God will give the Dominion. For this good Destiny I long.

22. He, I believe, who God knows among all who have been and are, as one to whom in accordance with Right the best portion falls for his prayer, these will I reverence by their own names and go before them with honor.

Vahishtoishti Gatha

53.

1. (Zarathushtra) - The best possession known is of Zarathushtra Spitama, which is that God will give him through Right the glories of blessed life unto all time, and likewise to them who practice and learn the words and actions of his Good Religion.

2. Then let them seek the pleasure of God with thoughts, words, and actions, unto him praise gladly, and seek his worship, even Kava Vishtaspa, and Zarathushtra's son, the Spitamid, with Frashaoshtra, making straight the paths for the Religion of the future Deliverer that God ordained.

3. Him, O Pouruchista, you scion of Haechataspa and Spitama, youngest of Zarathushtra's daughters, has (Zarathushtra) appointed as one to enjoin on them the fellowship with Good Thought, Right, and God. So take counsel with your own understanding, with good insight practice the holiest works of Piety.

4. (Jamaspa): Earnestly will I lead her to the Faith, that she may serve her father and her husband, the farmers and the nobles, as a righteous woman (serving) the righteous. The glorious heritage of Good Thought ... shall God give to her for all time.

5. (Zarathushtra): Teachings address I to maidens marrying, and to you (bridegrooms) giving counsel. Lay them to heart and learn to get them within your Selves in earnest attention to the Life of Good Thought. Let each of you strive to excel the other in the Right, for it will be a prize for that one.

6. So is it in fact, you men and women! Whatever happiness you look for in the follower of the Lie, that will be snatched away from his person. To them the Liars, crying 'woe', shall be ill-food, paradise shall be lost to them who despise righteousness. In such ways you destroy for yourselves the Spiritual Life.

7. And to you shall accrue the reward of the Brotherhood - in so far as the most faithful zeal is in your flesh and blood - there where the spirit of the Liar, cringing and cowering, shall fall down into destruction. If you separate yourselves from the Brotherhood, then will 'woe!' be your word at the end of things.

8. So they whose deeds are evil, let them be deceived, and let them all howl, abandoned to ruin. Through good rulers let him bring death and bloodshed upon them and peace from these (their assaults) unto the happy villagers. Grief let him bring on those, he who is the greatest, with the lord of death; and soon let it be.

9. To men of evil creed belongs the place of corruption. They who set themselves to condemn the worthy, despising righteousness, forfeiting their own body. - Where is the Righteous Lord who shall rob them of life and freedom? Yours God is the Dominion, whereby you can give to the right-living poor man the better portion.

Airyaman ishya Gatha

54.

1. Let the Airyaman, the desired friend and peersman, draw near for grace to the men and to the women who are taught of Zarathushtra, for the joyful grace of the Good Mind, whereby the conscience may attain its wished-for recompense. I pray for the sacred reward of the ritual order that is (likewise so much) to be desired; and may God grant it, (or cause it to increase).

2. We sacrifice to the Airyema-ishyo, the powerful, the victoriously smiting, the opponent of assaulting malice, the greatest of the sentences of the holy ritual order. And we sacrifice to the bounteous Gathas that rule supreme in the ritual, the holy (and venerable). And we sacrifice to the Praises of the Yasna which were the productions of the world of old.

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