YASNA - Ahunavaiti Gatha
YASNA 34.
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- 1.
- The action, the
word, and the worship for which Thou, O Mazda, shalt bestow
Immortality and Right, and Dominion of Welfare - through multitudes of
these, O Ahura, we would that thou shouldst give them.
- 2.
- And all the actions
of the good spirit and the holy man, whose soul follows the Right, do
ye set with the thought (thereof) in thine outer court, O Mazda, when
ye are adored with hymns of praise.
- 3.
- To Thee and to
Right [Asha] we will offer the sacrifice [myazda, i.e. offering] with
due service [veneration], that in (Thy established) Dominion ye may
bring all creatures to perfection through Good Thought. For the reward
of the wise man is for ever secure, O Mazda, among you.
- 4.
- Of Thy Fire, O
Ahura, 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.
- Have ye Dominion
and power, O Mazda, 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 ye are truly
thus, O Mazda, 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
thee, O Mazda, who by their doctrines turn the known inheritances of
Good Thought into misery and woe [usheuru?]. I know none other but
you, O Right, so do ye 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 thy
commandment, O Mazda. They that 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 thy wise one, O Mazda,
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 [Vohu Manah], and to the Holy Piety [Spenta
Armaiti], creator, comrade of Right [Asha] -- wise that he is, and to
all hope, O Ahura, that are in thy Dominion, O Mazda.
- 11.
- And both thy
(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 Mazda, dost thou bless the foes of
thy foes.
- 12.
- What is thine
ordinance? What willst thou? What of praise or what of worship?
Proclaim it, Mazda, 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 Ahura, of which thou didst speak to me, whereon, a way
well made by Right, the Daena of the future benefactors shall pass to
the reward that was prepared for the wise, of which thou art
determinant, O Mazda.
- 14.
- The precious
reward, then, O Mazda, ye 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, Ahura, that of the
wisdom which exalts communities through Right.
- 15.
- O Mazda, make known
to me he best teachings and actions, these O Good Thought and O Right
the due of praise. Through your Dominion, O Ahura, assure us that
mankind shall be capable according to (Thy) will.
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