Avesta (Gathas) · 2 of 2 · tr. L.H. Mills
Spenta Mainyu Gatha, Yasna L, Section 1b
(And together with that chief speaker of your word I would engage yet others in the cause).
Your well-incited 5 and swift 6 (servants), O Ahura!
would I yoke 7 on (as steeds to take their holy course toward heaven), gaining 7 thereby (at last) the Bridges 8 where p.
174 [paragraph continues] Your adoration (rules and is complete).
Yea, I (?) yoke on your mighty ones, and with Thy Holy Order, and Thy Good Mind.
And with these may Ye drive on; aye, be Ye for my help!
8.
(And as I yoke on Your Mãthra-speakers for their course, then) would I (myself) approach You in the (highest) deed of worship 1 , and with these sacred metric feet (of Zarathu s tra and his peers 2 ), those which are heard and famed afar, as the metric feet of zealous worship, and with my hands stretched 3 out (in supplicating prayer).
Yea, You (would I approach), O Mazda!
in union with Your sacred ritual Truth, and with the homage of a freely-giving helper 4 , and with the good virtue of (Your) Good Mind (in my soul).
9.
Yea, with these Yasnas of Your sacrifice would I approach You, praising back to You (in answer to Your mercies), O Ahura!
and Thou, O Righteousness!
in (the holy) actions of Your Good Mind, (as he moves within us), so long indeed as I shall have the power, commanding at my will o’er this my sacred (privilege) and gift.
(And doing as) the wise man (thus), may I (like him) become a supplicant who gains 5 his ends.
10.
(Mine every wish and prayer is this), then therefore whatsoever I shall do, and whatsoever deeds p.
175 [paragraph continues] (of ritual and truth I shall yet further do) on account of, (and to make full 1 ) these (prior deeds of worship), yea, whatsoever (holy works) shine bright 2 as having worth in (all) men's eyes through Thy Good Mind (whose character they share; these as) the stars, suns, and the Aurora which brings on the light 3 of days, are all, through their Righteous Order, (the speakers) of Thy 4 praise, O Thou Great Giver, Lord!
11.
Your praiser then (by eminence) would I be named, and (more), would be it, so long as by (Thine inspiring) Righteousness I am thus able and may have the power.
And may the maker of the world give help through (His implanted) Good Mind (in my fellow-servants).
And may that (all) be done 5 (to further us) which through His veritable grace is most promotive (for the cause)!
§ Ask Guru about this passage →Themes
Ahura Mazda Principlecosmology
The divine ordering principle of truth and light.
The passage centrally addresses Ahura Mazda and invokes His Good Mind, Truth, and Righteousness as the divine ordering principle.
All passages →Asha Cosmic Ordercosmology
Truth as the fundamental structure of reality.
The text explicitly references Holy Order, Righteousness, and Truth as the fundamental structure governing reality and worship.
All passages →Good Thought Word Deedethics
The Zoroastrian triad of right thought, right speech, and right action as the foundation of ethical life; truth-in-living.
The text embodies the Zoroastrian triad through references to Good Mind (thought), sacred metric feet/word (speech), and deeds of ritual and truth.
All passages →Living Godtheology
The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.
Ahura Mazda is addressed as an active, personal reality who gives help and rules over adoration.
All passages →Prayerpraxis
Direct address to the divine, whether petitionary, contemplative, or liturgical; speech and silence offered upward.
The entire passage is a direct address to the divine involving supplication, sacrifice, and worship.
All passages →Psychopomp Journeycosmology
Guided passage of the soul through afterlife realms.
The text mentions gaining the Bridges where adoration rules, referring to the Chinvat Bridge passage after death.
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