YASNA - Ahunavaiti Gatha
YASNA 30.
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- 1.
- Now I will proclaim
to those who will hear the things that the understanding man should
remember, for hymns unto Ahura 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 consummation, bethinking you 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 aright, the foolish not so.
- 4.
- And when these
twain 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 that follows
Right.
- 5.
- Of these twain
Spirits he that followed the Lie chose doing the worst things; the
holiest Spirit chose Right, he that clothes him with the massy heavens
as a garment. So likewise they that are fain to please Ahura Mazda by
dutiful actions.
- 6.
- Between these twain
the Daevas also chose not aright, 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 (i.e.
mankind) came Dominion, and Good Mind, and Right and Piety gave
continued life to their bodies and indestructibility, so that by thy
retributions through (molten) metal he may gain the prize over the
others.
- 8.
- So when there
cometh their punishment for their sins, then, O Mazda, at Thy command
shall Good Thought establish the Dominion in the Consummation, for
those who deliver the Lie, O Ahura, into the hands of Right.
- 9.
- So may we be those
that make this world advance, O Mazda and ye other Ahuras, come
hither, vouchsafing (to us) admission into your company and Asha, 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 Mazda, and of Right.
- 11.
- If, O ye mortals,
ye mark those commandments which Mazda hath 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.
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