YASNA - Ahunavaiti Gatha
YASNA 28.
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- 1.
- With outspread
hands in petition for that help, O Mazda, I will pray for the works of
the holy spirit, O thou the Right, whereby I may please the will of
Good Thought and the Ox-Soul.
- 2.
- I who would serve
you, O Mazda Ahura and Vohu Mano, do ye give through Asha the
blessings of both worlds, the bodily and that of the Spirit, which set
the faithful in felicity.
- 3.
- I who would praise
ye as never before, Right and Good Thought and Mazda Ahura, and those
for whom Piety makes an imperishable Dominion to grow; come ye to me
help 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 Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have
power and strength, teach men to seek after Right.
- 5.
- O Asha, shall I see
thee and Good Thought, as one that knows? (Shall I see) the throne of
the mightiest Ahura and the following of Mazda? Through this word (of
promise) on our tongue will we turn the robber horde unto the
Greatest.
- 6.
- Come thou with Good
Thought, give through Asha, O Mazda, as the gift to Zarathushtra,
according to thy sure words, long enduring mighty help, and to us, O
Ahura, whereby we may overcome the enmity of our foes.
- 7.
- Grant, O thou Asha,
the reward, the blessing of Good Thought; O Piety, give our desire to
Vishtaspa and to me; O thou Mazda and King, grant that your Prophet
may command a hearing.
- 8.
- The best I ask of
Thee, O Best, Ahura (Lord) of one will with the Best Asha, desiring
(it) for the hero Frashaostra and for those (others) to whom thou wilt
give (it), (the best gift) of Good Mind through all time.
- 9.
- With these
bounties, O Ahura, may we never provoke your wrath, O Mazda and Right
and Best Thought, we who have been eager in bringing you songs of
praise. Ye are they that are the mightiest to advance desire and the
Dominion of Blessings.
- 10.
- The wise whom thou
knowest as worthy, for their right (doing) and their good thought, for
them do thou fulfill their longing for attainment. For I know words of
prayer are effective with Ye, which tend to a good object.
- 11.
- I would thereby
preserve Right and Good Thought for evermore, that I may instruct, do
thou teach me, O Mazda Ahura, from thy spirit by thy mouth how it will
be with the First Life.
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