YASNA - Ahunavaiti Gatha
YASNA 31.
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- 1.
- Mindful of your
commands, we proclaim words unpleasant for them to hear that after the
commands of the Lie destroy the creatures of Right, but most welcome
to those that give their heart to Mazda.
- 2.
- If by reason of
these things the better path is not in sight for choosing, then will I
come to you all as judge of the parties twain whom Ahura Mazda knoweth,
that we may live according to the Right.
- 3.
- What award Thou
givest through the (holy) Spirit and through the Fire and hast taught
through Asha, to both the parties, and what the decision is for the
wise, this do Thou tell us, Mazda, that we may know, even with the
tongue of Thine own mouth, that I may convert all living men.
- 4.
- If Asha is to be
invoked and Mazda and the other Ahuras and Ashi and Armaiti, do thou
seek for me, O Vohu Manah [1], the mighty Dominion, by the increase of
which we might vanquish the Lie.
[1. Boyce: "seek
by the best purpose (vahishta manah)..." This is an excellent
example of the continuous juxtaposition in the Gathas of the Amesha
Spentas as divinities and things.]
- 5.
- Tell me therefore
what ye, O thou Right, have appointed me as the better portion, for me
to determine, to know and to keep in mind, O thou Good Thought --
which portion they envy me. Tell me of all these things. O Mazda Ahura,
that shall not or shall be.
- 6.
- To him shall the
best befall, who, as one that knows, speaks to me Right's truthful
word of Welfare and of Immortality; even the Dominion of Mazda which
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 that by his wisdom created Right. (Those realms) that
the Best Thought shall possess those dost Thou exalt, O Mazda, through
the Spirit, which, O Ahura, is ever the same.
- 8.
- I recognize Thee, O
Mazda, in my thought, that Thou the First art (also) the Last -- that
Thou art Father of Vohu Manah; -- when I apprehend Thee with mine eye,
that Thou art the true Creator of Right [Asha], and art the Lord to
judge the actions of life.
- 9.
- Thine was Armaiti,
Thine the Ox-Creator, (namely) the Wisdom of the Spirit, O Mazda Ahura,
because Thou didst give (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 that advances Good Thought. He that is
no-husbandman, O Mazda, however eager he be, has no part in this good
message.
- 11.
- When Thou, O Mazda,
in the beginning didst create the Individual and the Individuality,
through Thy Spirit, and powers of understanding - when Thou didst make
life clothed with the body, when (Thou madest) 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 that knows or he that
knows not, (each) according to his own heart and mind. Passing from
one to another Armaiti 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 Asha Thou art aware, observing it with Thy flashing eye.
- 14.
- These things I ask
Thee, O Ahura, how will these come and happen -- the dues, that in
accord with the records are appointed for the righteous, and those, O
Mazda, 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 Ahura, who finds not his living without injury to 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 Asha, shall become like Thee, O
Mazda Ahura, when will he be and how will he act?
- 17.
- Which is the
greater -- what the follower of Asha or what the follower of Druj
believe? Let him that knows inform the wise; no longer let him that
knows nothing deceive. Be to us, O Mazda Ahura, 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 Asha, to the wise Healer of Life O Ahura,
who can or will establish the truth of the words of his tongue, when
through Thy red Fire, O Mazda, the assignment (of rewards) is made to
the two parties.
- 20.
- Whosoever cometh
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, ye followers of the Lie, shall your own Self bring you
through your (own) action.
- 21.
- Mazda Ahura by
virtue of His absolute Lordship will grant a perpetuity of communion
with Haurvatat and Ameretat, and with Asha, with Khshathra, and with
Vohu Manah, to him that 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 Asha together with good Dominion by his word and deed. He will
be, O Mazda Ahura, the most helpful helper to Thee.
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