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Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 02 Oct 2011 13:03 and updated at 02 Oct 2011 13:03

YASNA (YAJNA), The Avestan Text

CHAPTERS:-

01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25,
26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50,
51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72

CHAPTER 31.

AHUNAVAITI GATHA (Y28 34).

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.

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.

Created by: Jijith NadumuriJijith Nadumuri, to promote Avesta and its Comparative Analysis with the Vedas

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