YASNA - Ushtavaiti Gatha
YASNA 46.
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- 1.
- To what land shall
I go to flee, whither to flee? From nobles and from my peers they
sever me, nor are the people pleased with me [......], nor the Liar
rulers of the land. How am I to please thee, Mazda Ahura?
- 2.
- I know wherefore, O
Mazda, 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 thee, see thou to it, O Ahura, granting me support a friend
gives to friend. Teach me through the Right what the acquisition of
Good Thought is.
- 3.
- When, Mazda, 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 thou
wilt thyself fulfill this for me, O Ahura.
- 4.
- The Liar stays the
supporter of Right from prospering the cattle in district and
province, infamous that he is, repellent in his actions. Whoso, Mazda,
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 thereto, 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 Mazda Ahura.
- 6.
- But whoso 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
thou hast created men's Selves in the beginning, O Ahura.
- 7.
- Whom, O Mazda, can
one appoint as protector for one like me, when the Liar sets himself
to injure me, other than Thy Fire and Thy Thought, through actions of
which twain the Right will come to maturity, O Ahura? In this lore do
thou instruct my very self.
- 8.
- Whoso 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, Mazda, not
from the ill!
- 9.
- Who is it, the
faithful man he, who first taught that we honor thee as mightiest to
help, as the holy righteous Lord over action? What thy Right made
known, what the Ox-Creator made known to Right, they would fain hear
through thy Good Mind.
- 10.
- Whoso, man or
woman, doeth what thou, Mazda Ahura, knowest as best in life, as
destiny for what is Right (give him) 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
ariseth, through activity of Piety that blesseth substance; then shall
Good Thought admit them, and Mazda Ahura give them protection at the
Fulfillment.
- 13.
- Whoso among mortals
has pleased Spitama Zarathushtra by his willingness, a man deserving
of good fame, to him shall Mazda Ahura 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 thy friend for the great covenant? Who wills to
have good fame? It is the Kava Vishtaspa at the consummation. Those
whom thou wilt unite in one house with thee, these will I call with
words of Good Thought.
- 15.
- Ye Haechataspa
Spitamas, I will declare unto ye so that ye can discern the wise and
the unwise. ... Through these actions ye shall acquire Right according
to the primeval laws of Ahura.
- 16.
- Frashaoshtra Hvogva,
go thou thither with those faithful whom we both desire to be in
blessedness, where with Right is united Piety, where the Dominion is
in possession of Good Thought, where Mazda Ahura 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, Mazda Ahura.
- 18.
- He that holds unto
me, to him I promise what is best in my possession through the Good
Thought, but enmities to him that shall set himself to devise enmity
to us, O Mazda and the Right, desiring to satisfy your will. That is
the decision of my understanding and thought.
- 19.
- He who
accomplisheth 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 whereon
his mind is set. These things will thou bring to pass for me who best
knowest how, O Mazda.
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